After an early departure out of Revelstoke the passenger special takes the Connaught track and tunnel through the Rogers Pass. The sun is just beginning to crest the peaks.
The GW Travel trans-Canada special spent the night at Revelstoke and is heading for Banff in beautiful morning light a few miles east of Revelstoke. Interesting mix of power. In the bar at my mo... (more)
Conductor's eye view of the train. Just the museum train but interesting nevertheless. From the capola of caboose CP 437 477 there is a 1924 flatcar 421237 too close for the conductor to see!, the... (more)
SD40-2 of Canadian Pacific, built in 1974 and scrapped in 2010, is shunting in the yard in Revelstoke.
You get what you pay for… Passengers on the Rocky Mountaineer certainly are treated to amazing mountain scenery as the train travels west through Rogers Pass at Glacier. A special thanks to the ... (more)
CP 8840 pops out of the west portal of the Mount Macdonald Tunnel. At 14.7 kilometers long, this is the largest tunnel in the western hemisphere.
A Canadian Pacific hot shot rolls downgrade through Rogers Pass. The Connaught track usually facilitates eastbound traffic, with the MacDonald track receiving the westbound trains. Due to track m... (more)
Early evening as 1029 is the rear helper of a train heading westwards. Strong gusts of wind create a duststorm in the area.
Back in the day when SD40-2s ruled the mountain sub this quartet and their train have just emerged from the Connaught tunnel and are passing under Hyw 1 a couple of miles west of Glacier. (Note o... (more)
CP-helper at the end of a containertrain in Revelstoke in the eveningsun. The head-loc of this train you see on the same bridge on #457490
Containertrain arriving in Revelstoke
Two eastbounds led by CP 8905 and CP 8950 wait to leave Revelstoke.
CP 8839 in a dusty but classic paint scheme awaits another assignment at Revelstoke. Photo has been in my collection for years, no photographer listed on slide.
Coming down Rogers Pass, westbound, in a dumping rainstorm, through a snow/slide shed.
Crossing the Columbia as the skies open and rain begins to pour down.
