"Going somewhere" contest, full-scale entries

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First photo is from an October 07 excursion between Kamloops, BC, and Armstrong. It was a beautiful fall day, and the equally elegant ex-CN 2-8-0 #2141 pulled us very well out and back. She had to pull tender first on the return trip, and hit a farmer's 5-ton gravel truck pulling a large hay wagon with large round bales. Very little damage to either vehicle because the 70+ year-old hogger was right on the ball. I sent him my compliments via the excursion office, and he ended up calling me. We chatted for half an hour.



Second image is of the cross-over at Cisco, BC, where the CN and CP swap sides of the Fraser River Canyon.



Thirdly, in March of this year, we chased this train (not purposefully, the two routes run the Fraser Canyon, so neither of us had a choice). Here it is rounding a bend about 10 km east of Lytton, still in the South Thompson.



We stopped at Lytton and I dashed on down the embankment to photograph this newly decked bridge. CN had a nasty derailment on the far side in 2007, and I guess they decided to re-engineer it all.



And lastly, on May 03 of this year, I finally got a ride pulled by the wonderful Royal Hudson. Ain't she a beauty!?