It would have been interesting to see these geeps in blue and yellow, had CN sold them to VIA. The only example of a "hood" unit in VIA paint was former CP RS10 8558.

Canadian National MLW FA-2 #9432, and Fairbanks Morse (CLC) H-16-44 #2206.

Canadian Pacific operated the only three E8A's 1800, 1801 and 1802 in Canada.

FPA4 6790 leads an F9B and another FPA4 on #75 as it negotiates the curves at Paris. Despite outward appearances, this train is now operating under the VIA banner.

White Pass & Yukon Trains 1 and 2 meet and stop at Bennett, B.C. to allow all passengers to go inside the station for a sit-down hot lunch on Sept. 2, 1978. At the time, a 2-8-2 and rotary snowpl... (more)

The three CP maroon and gray FP-7s are cut away from the westbound "Canadian," Train 1, for fueling and boiler water at Calgary, Alberta.

A westbound threesome of MLWs attack the grade to Orrs Lake, just west of Galt. FA2 4086, an RS3 and an FA1 have their work cut out for them if they're to get their train to the top. At times, w... (more)

2 CLC H-16-44's power the Speno Grinding train as it sits in the clear in front of Golden station.

The belch that made Montreal famous! Or was that Schenectady? Expanding its carbon footprint, a BCRail northward freight gets underway at the north end of Squamish yard after some minor switchin... (more)

After Budd built the popular stainless steel cars in 1955 still elegantly serving VIA, a few of them would show up on the "Canadian's" companion transcon train, "The Dominion." Note all the heav... (more)

Deep within the confines of the Coast Mountain Range a BCRail southward freight crosses the Cheakamus River bridge at MP 49.6 on the Squamish subdivision

Snaking through several reverse curves a BCRail southward train descends the 2.2% Pavilion Mountain grade closely following the Fraser River. The division point of Lillooet lies about 10 miles ah... (more)

QG 2007, the Buckingham roadswitcher, rolls east toward Marelan and a meet with its westbound counterpart.

The Shawinigan Turn job heads north amid beautiful fall colors along the St-Maurice River Valley. The ex-CN GP40-2(W) leads two newly acquired GP39-2's

Eastbound extra with some 40 foot box cars. This engine was destroyed in the head-on wreck at Hinton, Alberta on February 8, 1986 as VIA 6566.