After meeting CN 398's great lashup (see photo 277707) at the east end of this trestle VIA 73 crosses the Grand River in Paris with RP.Net contributor Judy Shaw snapping pictures and our furry fri... (more)
4 GMDs with 2 GEs in the middle make up this impressive consist for CN M398 crossing the Grand River in Paris, Ontario. SD75I 5669 and 5775, C44-9W 2617 and 2626 along with the still sparkling GP9... (more)
Scarcely an hour since the horrifying radio call "VIA 73 stop your train, stop your train now please. There's been a report... umm, I'm not actually sure who called it in but there's a possibility... (more)
After boarding passengers transfering from Niagara Falls - Toronto VIA 92 (and a few Oakville-ites too) at Oakville Station VIA 675 heads off into the evening sun, continuing on it's westbound Tor... (more)
An unbelievably clean unit leads VIA 72 across the Sixteen Mile Creek and into Oakville Station in the bright afternoon sun after being held for just a few minutes at Kerr Street. It was waiting f... (more)
On a day filled with SD75Is we got another pair tied together by an SD60F, CN 5555 on train M38531-14 passing by the former site of Copetown Station..
GO 493 finds a patch of light between the trees approaching Clarkson Road as the sun dips toward the horizon. Eastbound GO 482's engine is barely distinguishable on the far track in the heat disto... (more)
VIA 72 passes through farmlands of "The Greenbelt" which won't be green for a couple more months.
VIA 72 crosses above the unique "S" shaped dam on the Grand River in Paris, Ontario.
5766 leads Q148 across the Grand River in Paris, Ontario enroute from Chicago Intermodal to Montreal Wharf in the Port of Montreal.
VIA 95 comes to a stop so the engineer can grab a couple of hot goat rotis from Ranee's for the trip to Niagara Falls. Actually there was a manual protect order on the Kerr Street crossing and it'... (more)
VIA 95 has just left Oakville Station and crossed the Sixteen Mile Creek, but now has to come to a stop at Kerr Street so a crewman can protect the crossing. The signals crew had been doing some w... (more)
It's irridescent paint aglow in a colorful sunset VIA 914 flies through the Burloak interlocking with train 95, a scant couple of minutes off schedule enroute to Niagara Falls. I see she's incurre... (more)
The overcast skies that have been around the past couple of days are starting to break up, allowing sweet evening light to shine upon a gaggle of geeps idling in Oakville Yard.
A brace of GEs cross the Grand River in Paris.
The rail train has finished work for the day and has been tied down at Guelph Junction so traffic on CP's Galt Sub can resume.
Westbound approaching Ford Drive in Oakville.
Inbound VIA passes outbound GO at the east end of Oakville Station.
Passing over Royal Windsor Drive the 12 o'clock switch job heads into the Ford complex to grab some loaded autoracks. Nice to see loads coming out of Ford on a regular basis again, after a few mon... (more)
Above the Grand River in Paris, Windsor - Toronto VIA 72 in the cold sun of late winter.
VIA 85 crosses above the frigid waters of the Grand River in Kitchener on its way from Toronto to Sarnia.
Screaming east empty to pick up another load of commuters to bring home for dinner.
Heading off the Galt Sub onto the Hamilton Sub at Guelph Junction
A pair of GEs struggle up the Niagara Escarpment on the Galt Sub only to descend it again on the Hamilton Sub.
CP CWR train tied down until tomorrow at Guelph Junction while a pair of Ontario Southland's MLW RS-23s work in the background.
VIA 85 kicks up a blizzard at 70mph on the GEXR Guelph Sub, approaching Rockwood on it's journey from Toronto to Sarnia.
Westbound train passes through Oakville Yard in a minor snow squall.
Eastbound out of Oakville Station GO 918 encounters a bit of squall activity approaching Oakville Yard.
It's not often you catch one of these with a bright and shiny face as the car washer only gets the sides clean. Nice, clear late afternoon light doesn't hurt either. I have a suspicion that this i... (more)
Local 556 (The Oakville Peddler) has just picked up some hoppers full of cement powder from St. Lawrence Cement in Mississauga at the end of this spur track and is approaching the Oakville town li... (more)
556 returns from St. Lawrence Cement with a bunch of hoppers full of Portland powder to Oakville Yard.
VIA 675 passes by Oakville Yard on a pleasant winter afternoon.
Only 30 years old and in need of a doctor. CP 5945 has been put out to pasture for now, having been set out on the unused old connector track from the Hamilton to the eastbound Galt Sub. The track... (more)
GO 543 pushes slightly late 491 westward out of Oakville Station. High POV courtesy of 10' snow bank piled up at west end of station parking lot.
VIA 75 overtakes GO 463 into the sunset approaching Oakville Station. If there's anything attractive about these ugly mutts it's the reflective nature of their metallic blue and gold paint, which ... (more)
Westbound commuter train passes by CN 556 working in Oakville Yard
Building 556 in Oakville Yard on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon. Hope the rest of February is this nice!
It's after lunch and the crew of 556 is back at work building today's train in Oakville Yard.
The fine snow that has been falling all day shows no sign of letting up as the power for 556 heads into the yard to tie down. Meanwhile the 12 o'clock switch job makes the first autorack move in o... (more)
73 switches over to track 1 at Snake for its run up the escarpment.
385 blasts down the Halton Sub on a sunny New Year's Day.
435 heads out of Aldershot Yard as 547 plays in the background. It looks like a steep transition between yard level and the mains but it is exaggerated in this shot by a bit of telephoto compressi... (more)
Another glinting GO shot, this time from south of the tracks and kicking up 6" of powder that fell last night.
Eastbound commuter hauler charges out of a fiery sunset approaching Oakville Yard. I know I've done a shot or two similar to this before, but this is the first time with an MP40.
Eastbound commuter hauler charges out of a fiery sunset leaving Oakville Station.
Partner shot to Photo ID #265807 but at the opposite end of the zoom shows the consist's oddballs a little bit better. Speculation from a fellow railfan at Copetown was that the geep and slug were... (more)
385 nears the end of it's climb up the Niagara Escarpment at the former site of Copetown Station, led by a pair of C44-9Ws, a GP9Rm and a GP9 Slug.
385 heads down the Halton Sub approaching the signal at Mile 30.
VIA 73 leaves Aldershot behind to catch up with CN 435 heading up the Dundas Sub. Note that although the Operation Lifesaver paint remains on the sides of VIA 6411, the nose and cab have been pain... (more)
435 departs Aldershot Yard while the lights of VIA 73 approaching Aldershot Station are visible below the bridge in the upper right. 73 will catch up to 435 and overtake it at the start of the Dun... (more)
CN 385 with 13,000 horsepower and over two miles of train passes through Snake, having waited a few minutes for VIA 73 to clear ahead of it.
CN 385 waits in the background framed by the inclined spans of the Lemonville Road and Waterdown Road bridges (which climb out of the bed of prehistoric Lake Iroquois and up the beginnings of the ... (more)
A splinter flock of geese come in for a landing as 5005 switches cars in the background.
Hauling hard up the Niagara Escarpment on the Galt Sub only to go down it again shortly on the Hamilton Sub, 9780 leans into the S-curve approaching Guelph Line at Campbellville.
Working the yard on a sunny day (for a change) with the ubiquitous case of bottled water chilling on the short hood.
I last caught 5005 at Nanticoke working the hydro plant back in May. Nice to see that 1808 survived the recent scrapping spree.
With conditions varying from near-whiteout to nearly clear from one minute to the next, 7246 and two other geeps catch some fleeting sunshine as they build today's 556 in Oakville Yard.
With conditions varying from near-whiteout to nearly clear from one minute to the next, 7246 and two other geeps build today's 556 in Oakville Yard. Note that in spite of the chopped short hood an... (more)
Charging the hill east of Campbellville. Note the mismatched numberboards.
After lifting one tank car from the Ashlands plant 7018 and 4118 rejoin the rest of their train, which today consists of only one more car - a covered hopper.
With a new cylinder and piston installed, 22 should be ready to run by the start of next year's season after sitting out the past few. I took the wreath I had bought for today's ill-fated Santa Tr... (more)
A trio of geeps headed up by the still-fresh 7246 glow in the setting sun, watched over by a 3/4 moon.
A pair of geeps bracket a GMD1 in Oakville Yard.
A minute or so after leaving Aldershot Station VIA 73 crosses over to Track 1 for its run up the escarpment to Brantford and eventually Windsor. VIA 911 with 4 stainless Budds bring up the rear.
Finally underway again after making about 20 railfans and curious onlookers wait shivering at the Nassagaweya 1st Line crossing for about an hour. Next stop Galt, where its instructions were to ar... (more)
A CP Foreman does a roll-by inspection for the Holiday Train as it heads north on the Hamilton Sub. When it reaches Guelph Junction it will pause there for about an hour before proceeding west to ... (more)
A newer GE and a SOO SD60M struggle to haul their train up the Niagara Escarpment east of Campbellville on a typical November day with a pair of wild turkeys doing an aerial recon in the upper rig... (more)
The Oakville Peddler job works the Ashlands - Valvoline plant just across the border from Oakville in Mississauga (I'm standing in Oakville as I shoot this), in the one brief spot of sunshine that... (more)
Once proudly hauled by A-B-B-A sets of F units painted gray with maroon stripe and gold accents and later GP38s with a similar scheme, nowadays the Agawa Canyon Tour Train has been reduced to what... (more)
3 old GMDs haul 431 around the curve approaching Oakville Station at mile 21 of the Oakville Sub.
New paint still shining, 7246 glows in the evening sun in Oakville Yard.
raiLink 1755 works the yard with SW1200RS 1359, which I believe is the last remaining end-cab here. 2 went to Sarnia, another was scrapped on site along with 7 geeps (4-SOR, 3-GEXR). Thanks to Dan... (more)
The Northlander slows and leans into the big curve heading into the south end of town, allowing us time to pull over and set up this shot.
The threatening skies are going to be the least of the worries for the Northlander today. "Operational difficulties" shut down the train service south of South River a short time later for the nex... (more)
The second of 3 times this train will cross this road between Buckskin and Medonte, this time is at the bustling metropolis of Mordolphin which consists (to my knowledge) of 1 or 2 houses and 0 do... (more)
7246 seems to be stalking us, having followed us down from Capreol. No complaints here. Engineer had some the following night, though. "Lookit these people takin pictures of me an' the engine an' ... (more)
Southbound stacks crossing over the Severn River approaching the plant at Buckskin.
The morning after their stop at Sudbury the CP 2010 Winter Olympic Spirit Train pulls out of the yard to begin its journey south. The building at the far right background is the Days Inn where we ... (more)
The morning after their stop at Sudbury the CP 2010 Winter Olympic Spirit Train pulls out of the yard as the yard job waits on another lead.
On static display at Mactier.
Climbing the hill at Carley, two Canadian versions of the SD40-2 scream around the curve with a relatively short train to Sudbury.
VIA 920 is sporting a spiffy new set of bug deflectors since I last shot her in May (see photo ID 236528). The sun has dropped beneath the cloud cover and there's a definite hint of winter in the ... (more)
1423 has been parked out in the yard all by herself for the last week or two. This does not bode well for her future here - they did the same thing with 1422 just before they sent her packing. At ... (more)
In a few days this scene will be a riot of color, but now in autumn's infancy it's a tapestry of serene pastels as 434 prepares to swing north approaching mile 30 on the Halton Sub, then make it's... (more)
I love this time of year! The emerging colors compliment any scene and when there's a train in it with matching colors, so much the better! Here SSR's 70-tonner hauls home the last excursion of th... (more)
