OK, we're going to try this again. This is the third time I've been to Sandpoint to photograph a morning train crossing the Lake Pend Oreille bridge. Sam and I got out nice and early and no sooner got on our way when we heard a foreman get a work permit for the bridge. Son-of-a...! That's the third time that's happened to me. So instead Sam and I drove over to the interchange yard and photographed the local power.
- 0840 PDT Sandpoint, ID - BNSF power - BNSF 3009-BNSF 3013 (photo)
I was pretty frustrated so I decided to push north to British Columbia. After a quick border crossing we headed to Cranbrook where we found a westbound just arriving and an eastbound about to depart.
- 1221 PDT Cranbrook, BC - CP eastbound - UP 8287-CP 9702
- 1228 PDT Cranbrook, BC - CP westbound - UP 8259-CP 9556/UP 8303 (photo)
Nothing else was in the area so we continued eastward along Highway 3. Sam and I enjoyed the scenery of Crowsnest Pass and exited the mountains at Cowley, AB. Here we found a meet between two Canadian Pacific trains.
- 1536 MDT Cowley, AB - CP westbound - CP 8754-CP 8800-CP 9707 (photo)
- 1548 MDT Cowley, AB - CP eastbound - UP 8301-UP 8263 (photo)
We figured out that our evening's destination would be Medicine Hat, Alberta. On our way through Lethbridge we checked out the monster trestle over the Oldman River. Sam was suitably impressed. No trains were immenent though so we continued east toward Medicine Hat. At Burdett we photographed our last train of the day.
- 1847 MDT Burdett, AB - CP westbound - CP 5919-SOO 6035
Then it was straight to Medicine Hat for a good meal and night's sleep.
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