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Caption: On what promises to be a nice September day, the sun rises on the westbound Super Continental being serviced in Edmonton. Alas, in a little over two months, “the Super” will no longer call here—replaced by day trains Winnipeg-Regina-Saskatoon, Saskatoon-Edmonton, and the “Rupert Rocket” extended to Edmonton. The passenger station was opened by Canadian National on 14 February 1966, and the CN Tower office building officially opened on 4 November 1966—at the time, the tallest office building in Western Canada. Eighteen years after this photo was taken (on 3 September 1989), the restored Super Continental began the westbound pull-in/back-out move as CN phased out operations in downtown Edmonton. VIA would finally move to its current station near the Yellowhead Trail and Walker Yard on May 29, 1998. CN moved its office personnel out of the Tower a decade later.
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No intention to be contraversial here. This photo shows an eastbound train with the sun going down. If this was a westbound the CN tower would be on the right side of the photo. The tower is south of the tracks, so, to have the tower where it is in this photo, the photographer would have been facing west taking photos of an eastbound.
The great part about the tower, (I have not checked in a while), whoever owns the tower now still has the CN noodle doing it’s progressive lighting up of the emblem. This may have changed though, as I mentioned, been a while since the last time I watched it.