Less than a day after a rockslide wiped out a Canadian Pacific westbound and closed down the Yale Sub, Canadian National 2841 tiptoes gingerly over fresh track and spilled grain, while wreckage li... (more)

Back in August 1975 I made my first trip into the Fraser and Thompson canyons with my friend Tim Repp. We tallied about 70 trains in as many hours, an amazing experience. The second train photogra... (more)

CP 5819 leads a CP coal train westbound as it snakes along the Fraser River near Yale, BC. CN's main is on the opposite bank.

In a model railroad scene, CN 5314 leads two older SD40s repainted in the zebra scheme, crossing a short deck girder bridge over a water fall of a mountain brook spilling into a muddy Fraser River... (more)

Candy canes were still in vogue back in 1982 on CP Rail's original action red scheme. CP 5701 bend around a curve as its train rolls by Saddle Rock siding near Yale, BC. Note the second unit has b... (more)

Spring is in the air deep in the Fraser Canyon as an eastbound CN mixed freight snakes along the Fraser across from Yale, BC. Alas, the zebra scheme has mostly disappeared, and even this shot is n... (more)

CP 5827 emerges from a short tunnel east of Yale, BC with a westbound grain train.

CP 5827 is about to enter a short tunnel in the Fraser Canyon northeast of Yale, BC as it winds its way from North Bend to Roberts Bank, BC with a loaded coal train. By 1982 it was getting more di... (more)

CP 5827 rolls grain westbound through the Fraser Canyon as it pops out of a short tunnel northeast of Yale, BC on a sunny winter day in 1982. By this time it was a treat to catch a full candy cane... (more)

Looking more like a model railroad than a real one, a CP freight rolls east along the Fraser River north of Yale, BC. The canyon provides an impressive backdrop as both CN and CP maintain water le... (more)

CP 5819 lead a trio of SD40-2s on the point of a loaded coal train heading west along the Fraser River in the canyon north of Yale, B. C. CN is on the other side with grain boxcars and a stray pas... (more)

CP SD40-2 no. 5647 decked out in Expo 86 promotional paint leads a coal train west the day after a blizzard piled snow up in the Fraser canyon. The train is rolling by a parked grain train at Yale... (more)

The last day of my vacation and I thought I'd struck gold with three SD30ECOs (5018, 5001, 5005) on this eastbound empty coal train. All of this class had been transferred west and were testing o... (more)

CP 5818 threads an empty coal train around a tight S curve along the cliffs as it heads east up the Fraser Canyon east of Yale, BC.

CP 5835 still in candy cane stripes leads a westbound grain train at Yale, BC as it stops for a meet with an eastbound train. By this time, catching "candy cane" stripes were becoming a treat as C... (more)