AUGUST 2002 – BC Rail’s Whistler Northwind train passes Seton Lake in British Columbia, Canada. © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
Here’s an intersting picture from our 2002 trip to West Canada, showing a long train passing Seton Lake in British Columbia. It’s interesting for two reasons:
Firstly, it shows – like many pictures – the stunning beauty of British Columbia. While the mountains are high without doubt, only the passing train adds a useful scale to the visual impression. The viewer of the image can relate the size of the train and within a split second realizes the size of the surrounding mountains.
Secondly, the train itself was a mystery to me for quite a while. I did some research and found little to no information about it at all. Finally, a reverse image search of a cropped variant of the image helped me find the locomotive (or at least its twin), and the expert information in the caption was pretty useful as it was referring to a special paint scheme for a passenger train service named Whistler Northwind. This enabled me to dig up this page that tells the whole story of the short lived train line, confirming that I had been spotting indeed the Whistler Northwind train at Seton Lake in B.C.
While I am not a train spotter by any means, I like the idea of having captured a premium train during its short active period in a stunning location.
Nice. 🙂
The high resolution image
| Capture Date | 26-AUG-2002 |
| Location | Seton Lake, B.C., Canada |
| Camera | Canon AE-1 Program |
| Image Source | Fuji Slide Film |
| Digital Image Source | Minolta Dimage Scan Elite II |
| Digital Image Source Format | TIFF, 48 bits/pixel, AdobeRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 2415 x 3806 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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