Canadian National Manifest 570 is easing down the 2.2% grade at Bridge 56.6. The whining dynamic brakes are hard to hear over the crashing Cheakamus River, still running high with spring run-off.
A few hours before a major winter storm batters the Squamish Sub, CN 2890 blasts through a rock cut south of Whistler with train 570 from Prince George.
British Columbia Railway's Caribou Dayliner head north near Whistler, BC on a sunny August day in 1985. The short consist indicates that is going only as far as Lillouett, BC on this day. Three da... (more)
A pretty conventional wedgie of a train in the snow. Perhaps it is the in your face contrast of the big bright engine nose against the gray background that appeals to me. And it IS BCRail, one o... (more)
I'm posting this in the hopes that Mother Nature will see it and it will remind her that Whistler could use some more snow. After detraining a bunch of skiers from Vancouver who didn't want to fi... (more)