Rolling off the 2.4% grade into Field
It's late afternoon as 9020 drops down through Yoho with a unit grain train. The tail end is still winding out of the upper spiral tunnel ata steady 20 mph. When the GE's first came on stream, the... (more)
CP GEVOs 8710, 8759 and 8755 are performing some sort of tests around the Spiral Tunnels. The 8755 was wearing 3 SBUs on it's nose, so I can only assume that they were testing to see if there was ... (more)
CP 2816 rolls west over the Ottertail River west of Field.
CP 8862 begins the descent of "The Big Hill."
Check the full-size to see the roller-coaster that 101-11 is passing through. Mt. Bosworth is in the background.
101-11 is smoking a lot a short while after the engineer activated the dynamic brakes for the first time in a while. Given my positioning, this worried me!
the DPUs of 671 roll past summit lake, now shifting to dynamics for the torturous decent to Field
15-10 rolls through the Wapta dip at the former site of Hector
101-11 rolls through the Wapta dip at the former site of Hector
A Mountain Sub crew gets 101's freight up to speed after a quick crew change.
403's power idles in front of the Field station.
CP 4106 pops out of the tunnel at the west end of Cathedral with the business train.