Dashing through the snow as it climbs Kicking Horse Pass is CPKC train 301, a grain train heading west to Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 8576 and Union Pacific SD70ACe 894... (more)

More mountainous background shots of this CP intermodal

The Trans-Canadian Highway serves as the perfect road to chase trains on, as it parallels the CP from the spiral tunnels quite a ways east, affording shots like this with ease.

Heading downgrade from the Spiral Tunnels, this intermodal train is a few kilometres from Lake Louise

Though the timing was a bit off, this shot typifies the scenery of the Canadian Rockies- tall mountains and tons of pine trees. And SD-40-2s, of course.