Train no. 2, the Canadian, is about to depart Vancouver during the "blue light" hour powered by a pair of elephant style Geeps. During this period one could witness almost any combinatio... (more)

Train no. 2, the Canadian, starts its long journey across Canada to Toronto and Montreal as it departs the station on the waterfront in Vancouver, BC. Today FP9 1412 and an FP7 will handle the dut... (more)

Canadian National GMD F7Au 9106 with two GMD SD40's 5077 and 5076 east of, CN Thornton Yard, B.C. Photo from my collection, no photographer listed on slide.

Via 2, "The Canadian" pulls out of Vancouver's Pacific Central Station as the sun slips below the tops of the mountains.

A pair of FP7s enjoy an afternoon rain shower at CP's coach yard on the south side of downtown Vancouver. The pair will likely handle this afternoon's departure of the eastbound Canadian. During t... (more)

MLW S-4 switcher no. 7113 leads a block of mixed freight through trackage in CP's waterfront yard along the Burrard Inlet below downtown Vancouver on a rainy June 1976 day. The Action Red scheme s... (more)

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)

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)

CP 5723 sports the image of the future with the more conservative nose striping that began replacing candy cane stripes in 1976. The unit is in the downtown yards below the CP station, which is th... (more)

MLW built "Alco" S-4 no. 7117 gets a chance to pull the "Canadian", even if it is only from the depot along the Burrard Inlet through a tunnel under the city of Vancouver, BC, ... (more)

CP passenger power for the Canadian was not always FP7s or FP9s. Here on a rainy June day in Vancouver, BC, passenger GP9s await there turn at the helm of the famous train. No. 8520 sports its as ... (more)

The West Coast Express commuter rail service glides into the former Canadian Pacific Vancouver terminal in the blue hour before dawn. Long distance rail operations out of the station ended in 1979... (more)

After arriving from the east on VIA's Canadian, a candy-striped Canadian Pacific FP7 stares into the waiting room of Vancouver's CN station (now Pacific Central Station). VIA had moved the train f... (more)

VIA 2, "The Canadian," makes its way out of Vancouver's Pacific Central Station and into the Grandview Cut as a 2-car "SkyTrain" metro whisks by on Translink's Millennium Line.

Vancouver's Pacific Central Station glows in the dark hours before dawn. Originally built in 1919 by the Canadian Northern Railway, the building was CN's Vancouver terminal until VIA took over CN ... (more)