Around 12:30, CPKC Railway intermodal train 113 (Hochelaga, Québec, to Coquitlam, British Columbia), arrived in Field, British Columbia, for a crew change. Besides being on the western side of the Continental Divide (and, therefore, in BC), Field, at an elevation of 4121-feet (1256 metres), is also the western end of CPKC’s Laggan Sub and the eastern end of their Mountain Sub … hence the crew change. (And, I believe, a time zone change as well, even though Field is in the Central Time Zone, most of the Mountain Sub is in the Pacific Time Zone.) And now the railroad will follow the Kicking Horse River (which flows to the Pacific Ocean) rather than the Bow River (which flows to the Atlantic). Canadian Pacific ES44AC 9379 and AC4400CWM 8020 (with AC4400CW 9800 as the mid-train Distributed Power Unit) is crawling to a stop in the shadow (if it were sunny) of Mount Stephen. (Field, British Columbia, Canada – April 17, 2023)
