Locomotive

The trains of the Canadian Pacific are rather impressive affairs. Here is one of their work horse diesels, waiting for its load at Banf.

In the mountains it is not uncommon to see trains made up to a length of over a kilometre, generally of the one type of load per train. Thus, ore, logs, containers all crisscross the tight bends and steep inclines in ordered ranks. Several trains I saw had two locomotives in front (though most I saw had five), one in the middle of the carriages, and one at the end.