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Rail photographer from the Greater Vancouver Area of British Columbia.

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Two Tier 4s make light work of a 26 car L546, rolling towards Squamish through the backyards of West Vancouver and over Wood Creek bridge at Mile 10. In the old days, location used to have a wood trestle which made quite the photo, but now with the forest growing in it's hard to even notice the concrete replacement!
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/21/2018
Location: West Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
1 Comments | 3 Favourites
CN has been desperately short of power lately, and management has been drawing locomotives from anywhere possible, resulting in interesting additions to the roster, such as former ATSF SD75M's, CSX/CR C40-8W's, CITI ES44AC's, and in this case, a former GE Tier 4 demo unit that has made its way to the West Coast on a sulphur train, seen here switching in CN's Lynn Creek Yard.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/27/2017
Location: North Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 10 Favourites
A northbound on CN's former BCR mainline grinds northward, fighting against gravity as the Cheakamus River roars in the opposite direction.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/16/2017
Location: Squamish Lillooet …
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 7 Favourites
With a chilly outflow from Whistler blowing through Paradise Valley out to Howe Sound, CN's daily southbound for the for the former BCR lines south of Prince George (aka the Cariboo Division) rolls down the main at Cheakamus after spending an hour negotiating the Cheakamus Canyon.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/26/2017
Location: Paradise Valley
Province: British Columbia
1 Comments | 5 Favourites
On a glorious May evening, CN's Seymour Branch power sits on the west leg of the Chemtrade wye after the crew have completed their work.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/18/2017
Location: North Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
1 Comments | 6 Favourites
At 0830 on a spectacular Vancouver morning, CP was hard at work getting a twelve car Royal Canadian Pacific train—the first cruise of the season—prepped for the party of lucky travellers who would spend the day lounging and sipping drinks as the scenery. A half hour later, the classic consist was rolling out of Vancouver to start the first leg of its journey nearly 400 miles to Revelstoke.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/24/2017
Location: Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
3 Comments | 17 Favourites
<b> CSX on a CP on CN </b> A CSX ES44AH which came in on a CP potash train takes a rest between trips in CN's Lynn Creek yard.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: CSX Transportation
Date: 04/04/2017
Location: North Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 8 Favourites
With the crew on lunch, a pair of EMD yard engines sit in the former BC Rail North Vancouver yards, though the sign in the background wants you to know that it is now CN McLean Yard.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/19/2017
Location: North Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 7 Favourites
NREX 700, a NRE 1GS7B, waits outside the dumper at Richardson Pioneer grain terminal, which is within CN's Lynn Creek Yard Terminal. The engineer seems to be having a nice nap.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Other
Date: 10/22/2016
Location: North Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 7 Favourites
Veteran EMD's sit beside the Lynn Creek Yard office, waiting the call to action.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/27/2016
Location: North Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 4 Favourites
A solo CN 2957 takes charge of southbound L568 on the approach to Squamish yard.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 01/15/2017
Location: Squamish
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 4 Favourites
A recently arrived L546 sits in track four of Squamish Yard with old resident returning for a visit. 4610 led 546 from North Vancouver to Squamish a few hours earlier, and upon arrival came into four and stopped. Now, 571 (Squamish-Prince George)'s crew has come to work and is starting to roll through the yard on 2861 to take charge of 546's power, switch, and lead north on the former BCR. <br> See my profile for the photo of 571 charging north.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 01/01/2017
Location: Squamish
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 9 Favourites
571 was an interesting train on New Years Day 2017. After the crew arrived to work in Squamish, they got on their power (CN 2861 and 8816) and coupled to 546, which incidentally had just arrived a few hours earlier BCR 4610 in the lead position. The railfans of Squamish held their breath as the crew discussed putting their power in the lead, or that of 546, which would have meant a BCR unit leading a train in her home territory twelve and a half years after the provincial carrier was absorbed into CN. After much debate, the crew settled on 2861 to do the honours. Too bad. After that, 571 started their work in the yard, and we left the yard for Brackendale, as we knew the train would soon depart Squamish for Lillooet. <br> Seen in this shot is 571 kicking up a snowsquall as it picks up speed on the straightaway in Brackendale. Today's train was light, a mere 1600 feet, consisting of 21 empty gondolas bound for the copper loadout at Gibraltar near Williams Lake.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 01/01/2017
Location: Brackendale
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 5 Favourites
Squamish took on a very North Pole look this past weekend, which was last for the WCRA's Polar Express excursion which took Believers for a 60-minute ride from the Railway Heritage Park through CN's former BC Rail yard, and down the Squamish Terminals spur to the estuary of the Squamish River. Hot chocolate, cookies, and fun with various characters from the movie on the train was all included with a ticket.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/18/2016
Location: Squamish
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 6 Favourites
<b>Yard jobs meet in Lynn Creek Yard.</b> SD40u 6023, with the help of SD40-2W 5265, pulls a cut of loaded grain hoppers out of track 50 to be taken over to the elevators and dumped. To the right, GTW 5819 waits patiently with a geep cousin to get into the larger part of the yard.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/22/2016
Location: North Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
4 Comments | 8 Favourites
The crew for CN 571 goes to work putting the northbound "BCR" train together with the help of a months-old GE Tier 4 locomotive.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 11/13/2016
Location: Squamish
Province: British Columbia
1 Comments | 4 Favourites
Southbound 570 arrives in Squamish, and starts to break its train into separate sections in the yard.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/10/2016
Location: Squamish
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 4 Favourites
With a single tank car, CN's Seymour Branchline switch job waits as its crew contemplates their next move. The Seymour Industrial Branch serves three chemical plants on Vancouver's North Shore, and generates a fair amount of traffic going east via the Yale Sub, and south via BNSF's New Westminster Sub, and keeps this crew busy sorting incoming and outgoing cars for hours every evening.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/18/2016
Location: North Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 4 Favourites
CP 9365 moves grain loads along the Thompson River at Martel on CN's Ashcroft Sub on a beautiful August morning.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/09/2016
Location: Spences Bridge
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 5 Favourites
A heavy CP coal train rolls along CNès Ashcroft Sub on a hot August day along the Thompson River.
Name: Adam Steele
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/09/2016
Location: Spences Bridge
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 4 Favourites
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