Making strange bed fellows, a pair of Alco AAR truck equipped GP30s line up with a pair of FM H-16-44s, spliced by an F7B. Although the two FMs were recently repainted, it appears they are retired... (more)

The eastbound Canadian climbs the Kicking Horse Pass grade in between the Spiral Tunnels as it passes under Hwy 1. The Laurentide Park brings up the rear of the 11 car summer time consist of 1976.

The eastbound Canadian climbs the Kicking Horse Pass grade in between the Spiral Tunnels as it passes under Hwy 1. The train is short enough at this point to only need two F units to make the clim... (more)

A CP transfer powered by a pair of SW1200RS switchers, and featuring a wood caboose drags a cut of 40 ft. grain box cars east on their mainline near the former Port Aurthur Canadian National stati... (more)

BNSF 6018 leads an eastbound empty coal train across the causeway along the Clark Fork just west of Trout Creek, MT on Montana Rail Link's mainline.

A sand train holds Atwood siding while a northbound ballast train passes by on the mainline at Atwood, WI. CN SD75I no. 5661 leads a GE Dash 9 and GEVO on the consist.

CP 3716 peeks out of the roundhouse in downtown Vancouver on a rainy June day. The 2-8-0 was restored to operating condition in 1975 and worked on the Coast with Royal Hudson 2860 until that cease... (more)

The Sumas Turn makes time heading east at Albion, BC on its way to Mission City where it will divert off the mainline and head to the U.S. border at Huntingdon, BC/Sumas, WA. It will interchange w... (more)

The Mission City Turn works its way west back to Coquitlam Yard after doing switching at Mission. The train is doing a pick up at Ruskin before continuing on to Coquitlam.

A traditional CP steel caboose brings up the rear of the Mission Turn as the train heads east at Albion, BC.

This was a common lash up in the mid-70s for transfer jobs as well as the Sumas Turn working out of Pt. Coquitlam near Vancouver. This train is preparing to leave the downtown yards along the Burr... (more)

Mid-train remote control units meet at Lytton, BC as a loaded coal train passes an empty grain train. CP used radio control cars to assist in their system. The left one is made from a CLC C-liner ... (more)

UP 8904 leads an Altoona to St. Paul freight west near Roberts, WI on the former C&NW (Omaha Rd.) mainline a day before UP 4014 rolled east on this line.

Soo Line GP7 no. 559 was assigned to handle the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Ry. museum passenger train on May 28th. During the summer of 2019 this unit was on hand along with former a BN SDP40 and ... (more)

The local turn west from Chippewa Falls switches the sand loading facility at Wheeler, WI with SD75I no. 5663. It is normal for this service to be handled by a single unit, typically set up long h... (more)