A wee bit nippy A sharp curve a mile west of Exshaw has been a favorite spot for photographers back to the 1940s - with the gentle curve of the Bow River and the dramatic peaks of the Cana... (more)

A Kootenay Morning The westbound Trail Hotshot glides down the gentle and beautiful Kootenay river a couple miles west of Nelson. This unique train runs once a day to service the smelter a... (more)

Hoar Frost With a puff of snow coming from every support as the tall containers pass under around 40MPH, a westbound intermodal is 7.9 miles out of the Calgary terminal headed for Vancouve... (more)

Boundary in Bloom! The westbound Kootenay Valley Railway hotshot, led by ex-SOO SD40-2 6613 rumbles through Shoreacres, the former siding now overgrown by flowers. Much of the Boundary Sub... (more)

Let off some steam! The Big Boy isn't the only steamer that can whip up a crowd. From my surprisingly secluded spot, I watched the masses race along 2-lane highway 2 to follow 4449 on her unique t... (more)

Just east of the Rockies, two trains meet at Ozada siding on the Morley flats, inside the Stoney first nations reserve.

Making close to track speed, a westbound intermodal is almost at the top of one of the gentlest crossings of the Rocky Mountains at Yellowhead Pass. Snow dusts the trees, and sub-zero temperatures... (more)

With fresh snow flying around it, eastbound intermodal 112-02 flies toward Calgary at track speed on a spectacularly sunny Rocky Mountain day.

A small fleet of motorcoaches awaits in Banff as the eastbound Rocky Mountaineer slows down for the approach to the station, passing between the Bow River and Vermillion Lakes after sunset while t... (more)

The floods of spring now gone, an eastbound intermodal shoots across the fill at the oxbow of the Bow River known as Muleshoe. Snow still lingers on the south facing slope of Massive Mountain, but... (more)

A light snowstorm near sunset leaves fresh snow to be kicked up by eastbound empty potash train #672, led by still new GEVo 8946. In the darkest depths of the Canadian winter, a golden glow linger... (more)

Heading down the Kicking Horse River Canyon, 2816 steams past the old abutments of the recently rerouted trans-Canada highway before heading under the new and impressive highway bridge. The railw... (more)

The mountains northeast of the town of Jasper cling to the last diffused rays of sunset as a hot westbound intermodal departs for a Pacific terminal Railroad: Canadian National Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD75I
Location: Jasper, Alberta, Canada
Locomotive #: CN 5681
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 06, 2011

Looking for all the world like a Christmas card with soft shadows, a westbound CP intermodal shows that snow is the greatest reflector known to photographers. A recent dump has left everything cov... (more)

Someone must have taken an interest in a unique numberboard! Either that or an accident with a crow took out one of 8888's numberboards...regardless, here she is departing westbound with a loaded ... (more)