Spent diesel fuel fills the sky as 92 cylinders of EMD 645's battle hard up the 1.0% grade past the NP-era searchlights protecting the control point at West Louisville. The crawl will end in a lit... (more)

Vintage EMD's.The bark of two naturally aspirated 567's fill the calm mountain air on a sensational May morning. The lead GP9, the MRL 120, was built in 1957 for the Northern Pacific, has p... (more)

Helena-based helpers have cut-off from the headend and are out of view... Leaving two badass SD45's, the leader being of Great Northern heritage, on the point of a high priority rail train bound f... (more)

Curving into Solomon, Alberta, on the morning of July 9, 2014, is Canadian National train No. 304 led by GE ES44DC No. 2265.

VIA 6459 leads VIA No. 1, the Canadian, along Jasper Lake at Windy Point en route to Japser, AB.

CN 6011 leads train 513, the Hinton-Jasper local turn, out of Parkgate tunnel and along the shore of the Athabasca River in Jasper National Park.

EMD SD60F No. 5518 leads second train No. 847 over the Snaring River Bridge at Henry House, Alberta, on July 11, 2014.

Passing through Brule Tunnel, Canadian National train No. 513 curves toward Park Gate, Alberta, on July 12, 2014. The Hinton to Jasper local is powered by vintage pair of aging GMD’s; SD40u No. ... (more)

CN train 106 has left the double track at Parkgate and is rounding the curve into Parkgate tunnel as it heads east towards Hinton, AB from Jasper. CN 2672 has just gone over the sheep guard that a... (more)

Canadian National train No. 180 curves into Brule Tunnel just east of Park Gate, Alberta, on July 12, 2014. The train is about to leave Jasper National Park, with the actual border directly on top... (more)

CN train 111 rolls west across the Swan Landing causeway on Brule Lake, just east of Jasper National Park. CN 2678 is paired with former BC Rail 4602 a cowled GE unit. The train also had a DPU on ... (more)

VIA train No. 1, the Canadian cruises west through Jasper National Park at Henry House. Next stop Jasper in about 15 minutes. Great day to be in the dome!

CN 2807 leads westbound coal train no. 799 across the causeway at Snaring, AB. Low grades permit CN to move these trains with a single lead unit and a trailing DPU.

Passing milepost 8 on Canadian National’s Albreda Subdivision, VIA Rail’s train No. 5, the Skeena, has just departed Jasper and is approaching Geikie, Alberta, on July 11, 2014. The westbound ... (more)

NP’s westbound flagship “North Coast Limited” No. 25 leaves Butte and zips along at speed at Rocker, Montana the evening of April 10, 1970. In this photo it is really a BN train as the mer... (more)