CP 8839 east heads up to the very top of the Big Hill in a midwinter windstorm. CP 115 has stalled out on the eastern slope (7000 feet and 2 AC4400s didn't work out) and 8839 will decouple from it... (more)

Heading westbound downgrade past Sink Lake, this westbound has just started up its dynamic brakes as the rear end pulls over the top of the pass. This is part 2 of the story started Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Field, British Columbia, Canada
Locomotive #: CEFX 1026
Train ID: CP 115
Photo Date: February 03, 2011

Dynamic braking for all they're worth, 5 GEs ease all of loaded westbound potash train 671's 142 cars down the Big Hill. (2 on the headend, two scattered mid-train, and one on the rear) This view ... (more)

On a stretch of track across a frozen lake from a closed highway, an eastbound intermodal climbs up to the Great Divide beside Wapta Lake. Trains are few and far between as avalanches and the dang... (more)

Sitting across one of only two roads into Banff, the CP Holiday Train is the center of action, although most of the crowds are on the other side being yelled at by the CP police to stay there, giv... (more)

Snow falls softly on the lighted snow outside Banff Station for the night, the crowds have departed leaving the Canadian Holiday Train (01H-09) quietly chugging in the sub-zero temperatures. On t... (more)

Heading eastbound along the sunrise-lit shores of Wapta Lake and dwarfed by Mt. Stephen's 11K' bulk, second 110 grinds upgrade through the sag along Wapta's shore. This is the former site of a wye... (more)

On a partly sunny day, a westbound 351 (and not the only one that day) overlaps itself on the way to Vancouver during the beginning of fall in the Rockies. At this point, the westbound train is he... (more)

How about this view? A westbound grain train crawls down the hill at 15MPH, overlapping itself in the Lower Spiral Tunnel. The train is just about to emerge in a cloud of exhaust and brake shoe sm... (more)

177-22 heads west along the calm autumn waters of the Bow River. There's snow on Sulphur Mountain by this time in September, and there was snow earlier on the ground that day. Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Locomotive #: CP 8863
Train ID: CP 177
Photo Date: September 22, 2010

Hi-ball through Morant's! It's a full moon, and bad luck has drawn me trackside on a cold night. A road closure kept me from taking landscape shots, so I stopped at Morant's to capture the beauty ... (more)

Uploaded nearly a month after the fact, this is still the first snow shot of the year on Railpictures. The snow lasted but a few days, and made for some great shots in the meantime! Here we see a ... (more)

A flock of seagulls! On a warm summer evening, the NB freight from Seattle rolls towards Vancouver on the ex-GN coast line while beach-goers at White Rock Beach mill about, oblivious to the... (more)

Early morning doubleheading at Heritage Park on a beautiful fall day!

The eastbound KVR hotshot passes under a slide fence in a very hard to get scene along Kootenay Lake. It was just west of this location that 2 railwaymen lost their lives in 1995 when their train ... (more)