Canadian National train No. 117 sweeps through a curve at Vinsulla, British Columbia, on July 21, 2011. Vinsulla is 16 miles east of Kamloops on CN’s Clearwater Subdivision.
With a pair of BCOL C40-8Ms doing the honours, A417's train is about to knock down the home signal at Vinsulla, entering double track territory for the remainder of the journey to Kamloops.
Sighted somewhere on our drive from Jasper to Kamloops, around the Vinsulla area, 8962 leads a CN freighter with an impressive load of double stack containers towards Kamloops.
A westbound grain train dwarfs the Jasper section of the Rocky Mountaineer stopped at Vinsulla siding north of Kamloops. Vinsulla is an anagram of Sullivan, renamed to avoid confusion with Sulliva... (more)