CN Rail

The Crew at the Cabin

CN Rail

5352 & 2893 westbound at Hunter_Creek.

2576 & 5419 crossing Coquihalla bridge.

2662 leading a mixed load across Coquihalla Bridge.

Sun Shinning on 8016.

2221 on November 28 2006 Crossing the Coquihalla River.

5612...

Coming through CN Rail’s Hope BC Yard...

With 5382...

Oct 10 2006...

Under Hwy 1 Overpass...

With a long load of Hopper bottoms still on the bridge.

2240 & 2658 West bound...

Under the overpass.

2249, 2551 Coming west, “the wrong way”, on CP Rail...

and into the CP’s Tunnel at Ruby Creek.

_5666 & 2522 eastbound with Mt Cheam in the background.

8007 & 8002 Eastbound into Haig (CP Rail at Hope BC).

5640 leading the pack into the tunnel east of Haig

Cisco Bridges in the Fraser Canyon.

Along the Thompson River.

The old CN Station in Hope

at it’s new location.

Cn Snow plow At the Prince George Railway Museum.

Caboose in Vegreville Alberta.

In the Fraser Canyon CN Rail shares its line with the CP. The terrain of the Fraser Canyon in most places allows only one track. Because it was the second Canadian railroad to build across the continent CN had to take what was left over. This entailed a more difficult route through the Fraser Canyon but was built with a much gentler slope.

In July 2000, CN and CP jointly announced groundbreaking agreements. Under one of the agreements, the railroads use ‘directional running’ over a 155-mile (250-kilometer) stretch of track through the Fraser Canyon in western Canada with west-bound trains using the CN route and east-bound trains using the CP main line.

This fact allows for photography on both lines showing both carriers sometimes even in conjunction with each other.