Railpictures.ca - Steve Young Photo: There is a good reason that a CN train is running through Kicking Horse Pass. Their mainline at Hinton is out of service due to the horrific VIA and CN collision. I wasn’t in the mountains to catch these detours. I just happened upon this one. We chased it back to Banff, where it became too dark to photograph. Someone would get a photo of this train in one of the popular railfan publications of the time. I did not see them, however. Note thare was a Cowled unit and the (or one of the) Expo ’86 SD-40′s in the CN consist. At the time, a pilot engine from the host RR was necessary. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

There is a good reason that a CN train is running through Kicking Horse Pass. Their mainline at Hinton is out of service due to the horrific VIA and CN collision. I wasn't in the mountains to catch these detours. I just happened upon this one. We chased it back to Banff, where it became too dark to photograph. Someone would get a photo of this train in one of the popular railfan publications of the time. I did not see them, however.
Note thare was a Cowled unit and the (or one of the) Expo '86 SD-40's in the CN consist. At the time, a pilot engine from the host RR was necessary.

Caption: There is a good reason that a CN train is running through Kicking Horse Pass. Their mainline at Hinton is out of service due to the horrific VIA and CN collision. I wasn't in the mountains to catch these detours. I just happened upon this one. We chased it back to Banff, where it became too dark to photograph. Someone would get a photo of this train in one of the popular railfan publications of the time. I did not see them, however. Note thare was a Cowled unit and the (or one of the) Expo '86 SD-40's in the CN consist. At the time, a pilot engine from the host RR was necessary.

Photographer:	Steve Young [781] (more) (contact)
Date:	02/09/1986 (search)
Railway:	Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks:	CP 6058 (search)
Train Symbol:	? (search)
Subdivision/SNS:	Stephen (search)
City/Town:	Lake Louise (search)
Province:	Alberta (search)
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8 Comments

Cdntrainphotog

January 6, 2016 at 6:45 pm

Another cool intermodal train from 30 years ago. CN 45 foot trailers and All Trans pups.
CN is now containers and Alltrans is long gone.
Dave Brook

January 6, 2016 at 6:52 pm

The shot that legends are made from.
Steve Young

January 6, 2016 at 9:01 pm

Sometimes I am more lucky than good.
Did you notice that the cab door on the SD-50 is open! Good thing that they put a CP SD-40 up front. Open front doors – just another downside of those wide cab models.
ngineered4u

January 6, 2016 at 9:16 pm

LOL, we open the doors on non wide cab units too. It was probably not left open on purpose.
Stephen C. Host

January 9, 2016 at 5:35 pm

Great photo and great location. I was there.. once.
Steve Young

January 9, 2016 at 5:47 pm

I would love to get back that way, but I am south of Houston now, and when we retire in a year or two, we are moving to central Ohio – all a very long way from the Canadian Rockies.
BradKetchen

June 25, 2018 at 8:57 am

Another example of ‘rivals’ helping each other out. Great shot Steve!
fiddler

December 28, 2019 at 8:45 am

cn5334 was,I believe,the only expo unit.
BTW,the cabs are no wider on the so called ‘wide cab’ units,it’s the nose that is wider! This has been a misnomer from the beginning.

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