The East End

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The East End
The East End

Railway operations at the 'eastern end' of The Fraser Valley don't get the same level of railfan attention as those closer to Vancouver and it's suburbs. With the arguably more scenic and certainly more dramatic environs of the Fraser Canyon only a score of miles up the road, many keep driving, skipping some challenging, but potentially rewarding locations.

Timetable east of Rosedale (Yale Sub), and Agassiz (Cascade Sub) both routes curve to run in a northeasterly direction. The mountains on each side of the valley increase in height and close ranks, squeezing the two highways and railways closer to the rivers edge. Since the CP line on the north side of the Fraser River hosts eastbounds almost exclusively, optimal direct lighting is limited to at most a few hours per day in the summer. On the south side of the river, the CN line hosts only westbounds. With the trains heading south and then west, most of the lighting from late morning through evening is ideal.

The twenty five miles between the open farmlands at Rosedale, and end of road access at Hope find the CN tracks winding closely along the banks of the Fraser River. In the days of wired communications via the pole line, photographic opportunities were almost endless. The pole line itself was typically the primary obstacle for photo angles from the shoulder of nearby Highway #1. Once these wires were obsolete and regular lineside vegetation control stopped though, it didn't take long for thousands of deciduous trees to spring up and close ranks around the rails.

Ideal rail photo locations now consist of the few places where there is a break in the near continuous tree line, or where the high sun can shine down between the trees rather than through them.

Westbound manifest A417 trundles west across the bridge over Hunter Creek at MP47 of the Yale Sub. The Rocky outcropping above the train foreshadows the terrains transition to the east.

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Taken on: April 12, 2024
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