The air pressure gauges have read 0 PSI for a long time. Perhaps one day, CPR Royal Hudson 2860 will live again and the "boiler empty" placard can be stowed.

The Engineer on Hillcrest Lumber Co. #1, a 3' gauge, 2-Truck Shay, eases his train down the steep grades on the Cowichan Valley Railway. Hillcrest #1 looks and sounds great after a lengthy rebuil... (more)

Hillcrest Lumber Co. #1, a 3' gauge, 2-Truck Shay leads the excursion train of the Cowichan Valley Railroad around the BC Forest Discovery Centre site. Hillcrest #1 looks and sounds great after a... (more)

Polson Logging #70 pulls it's train over the bridge over the Nisqually River on the former Milwaukee Road branch line heading towards Mineral.

Polson Logging #70 pulls it's train towards Hwy 706 on the former Milwaukee Road branch line heading towards Mineral.

The sun sets over the museum and shops in Mineral, WA as Polson Logging #70 waits for the Whisky Train passengers to finish sampling some wonderful local spirits before taking the train back to El... (more)

CP 8861 leads a unit coal train over the CN bridge at Cisco in the Fraser River Canyon under stormy skies. The bridge in the foreground is the CPR mainline. Since the 1990s, CN and CP have shared... (more)

A CP Potash train crosses the CN bridge at Cisco in the Fraser Canyon during a summer rain storm.

Via 2, "The Canadian" streaks through the night as it crosses over the Harrison River a couple hours out of Vancouver, on it's way to Toronto.

Via 2, "The Canadian" pulls out of Vancouver's Pacific Central Station as the sun slips below the tops of the mountains.

The train doesn't stop here anymore ... Amtrak NPCU 90252 is on point of the morning Cascades service from Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR. The train has just cleared customs and is rolling past the... (more)

A westbound CP grain train crosses over an eastbound CP unit coal train at Cisco in the Fraser River Canyon. Some years ago CP and CN entered into a "directional running agreement" for t... (more)

Westbound CP grain train on the CN tracks crossing the Fraser River at Cisco.

A pair of CN SD-60s lead a mixed train across the Fraser River, returning from switching the industries on Lulu Island.

A pair of CN SD-60s lead a mixed train across the Fraser River, returning from switching the industries on Lulu Island.