SLRG 18 pulls the last of the 2.5% grade to the summit of La Veta Pass. The iconic location on the original D&RGW railroad became a beehive of activity as the photographer's special made a photo r... (more)

BNSF7034 leads a morning manifest up the Moffat Road at Tunnel 1. The "V" made by the two mountains in the background is Coal Creek Canyon. A earlier attempt to breech the Front Range by the Denv... (more)

BNSF8075 glides down the 1+% grade of Winston Hill. The grade ends at the Missouri River at Townsend, Montana. While Helena may be the helper terminal for trains climbing the Continental Divide, ... (more)

A very clean BNSF 6310 leads a westbound coal load up the 2.2% east slope of Mullan Pass. The train is passing thru the rock cut on the approach to Austin Creek Viaduct. Mid-Train is manned 4 pa... (more)

The Pacific Great Eastern Railway built along the banks of the Cheakamus River towards Whistler in 1912. The railroad was extremely expensive to build and by 1918 the Railroad was bankrupt, with ... (more)

Shiny CN3166 and 100 Year Anniversary CN3882 lead a eastbound double stack train thru the scenic Thompson River Canyon. The two motors had lead a passenger special into Vancouver a couple days pr... (more)

The New Road and the Old. In the 1870's a trail through the British Columbia Wilderness was constructed to offer ranchers a way to move cattle from the interior near Lillooet and Pemberton... (more)

BC RAIL COWL Returns!. Occasionally one of Canadian National's ex BCOL C40-8M s returns to home rails. Red-White-Blue BCOL4609 drops downgrade into Williams Lake, BC on point of train 570. ... (more)

Part III Sand Train. The work of getting a tonnage train over the mountains can be a challenge in the best of conditions, when things are not working rite it becomes far worse. This westb... (more)

Part II Sand Train. An hour after this train passed through Coal Creek Canyon the westbound sand train crawled past the site of former Tunnel 28 on its journey towards the Continental Divi... (more)

Part I Sand Train. A BNSF sand train climbs up and around the horseshoe curve in Coal Creek Canyon. The 2% grade is evident here as the the head-end of the train passed over the 2 DPU AC u... (more)

A fairly new Tier IV GE climbs one of the many summits along Canadian Pacific's ROW along the Fraser and Thompson River Canyons. The eastbound train is passing by the famous White Canyon on its s... (more)

The SPECTACULAR BC RAIL!!! The former BC Rail clings to the side of the cliffs above the mighty Fraser River. The small village is Fountain, part of a Native Indian Reserve along what was once th... (more)

BC RAIL 4609 looks rite at home crossing the Cheakamus River. The Red-White-Blue C40-8M was built in 1990 to battle the mountains and weather of British Columbia. The GE cowls became as synonym... (more)

After stopping for a meet with the westbound Montana Rail Link local out of Laurel, BNSF7564 starts it train of auto racks moving east. The sunset after a very stormy day was full of color with sn... (more)