Stuff happens! You've heard the news, here is the visual. CP 8628 was the mid-unit on the westbound, and CP 8874 was the lead unit on the eastbound.

A foggy lakefront morning at Three Valley. It is always worth bringing the camera, even on the way to a meeting.

CP 77 Van Horne, trails the 2010 Holiday Train westward through Morant's Curve.

It is almost 6:30a.m. and the sun has just crested over the mountains as the morning mist begins to dissipate.

The Empress overnights in the dark reaches of the yard as the night traffic passes by on the Main.

Snow is still falling as train CP-115, led by CP 8722 is first to go past a grain train derailment from the previous day.

Looking westward across Wapta Lake with the sunrise. Note the foreground is still in the shade. I attempted using a gradient ND filter on this one (on the camera).

An amazingly clean and bright AC4400 is bringing up the rear of an empty southbound coal train. [Edit] A re-paint after being used in the movie "Unstoppable" (Thanks Ivan.)

A slightly different angle at Morants Curve. The paint is looking a little rough on lead unit CP 9826

Nothing like a little sunshine to make the arrival of winter weather more bearable. Here CP 8828 and CP 8858 flank CP 9715.

Dwarfed by the Rocky Mountains, the Rocky Mountaineer passes through the Mount Stephen Tunnel approaching the concrete snowshed and avalanche diversion channel.

Two Faibanks-Morse/Canadian Locomotive Works locomotives arrive on their home turf. CP's H16-44's and CPA16-4's were the mainstay in the south west along the Kootenay and Kettle Valley Division... (more)

From the J.A. Payne estate. The photographer was 15 when he took this picture in 1909. It shows the Stoney Creek Bridge 20 years before CPR engineers twinned the arches and changed the deck to gir... (more)

An efficient burn as CP 2816 heads westward towards the Connaught Tunnel. Note the IMAX camera on the front aimed for a self portrait.

A centennial. This photo of this classic view was taken shortly after the tunnels opened on September 1st, 1909. The number 8 along the bottom was how numbering was done 100 years ago.(From the J... (more)