Calgary to Vancouver Q 14351 28 blasts through Spruce Grove, Alberta

ET44AC 3237 approaches Century Road as it leads an eastbound intermodal through Spruce Grove.

A pair of EMD SD70M-2's rocket train Q119 (Chicago IL - Vancouver BC) approaching the town of Spruce Grove at track speed.

CN ES44DC 2340 leads train Q112 (Vancouver BC - Toronto ON) eastbound around the curve at Pioneer Road against the early morning sun.

A CN Rail Board of Directors special speeds west along the Edson Sub at 70mph.

This intermodal train is just pulling through the dip and is accelerating to the west on its way to Vancouver

Finally after linking to 303 and four trains pass this unique SD50F roles west through the Pioneer Road crossing to Vancouver with it's mixed freight.

Train 417 heads west with a BC Rail Unit running elephant style as second Unit

Train 301 passes train 303 at pioneer road in Spruce Grove.

CN mixed freight waits its turn to head west as the sun sets on a great day of railfanning

Running right behind a CP unit sulpher train this westbound hot shot crosses pioneer road on its way from Edmonton to Vancouver.

CP are running extras such as this loaded sulpher unit train on CN because they have too much traffic for their mainline to handle.

Empty Grain train waits for a clear track into the yard at Edmonton. Interesting look at FRED (end of train Units) used to replace the caboose in Canada

Trackside detail of sunset on rail, spike and tieplate. Taken between CN 105 and CN 101

West bound hot shot container train