The setting sun is making long shadows as a transfer from St. Luc Yard to Lasalle crosses the Lachine Canal Swing Bridge. There is no longer a need for a bridge tender as the canal closed to comm... (more)

BAR units were regulars on the CPR. From the mid-1960's to the early-1970's CP was notoriously power short and leased just about anything that would move, including from the BAR, B&M, B&LE, CGW, D... (more)

The Napierville Junction ran twice a day from Rouses Point, NY to CPR's St. Luc Yard in Cote St. Luc (suburban Montreal). Normally the power was NJ 4050 and 4051, the road's two RS-2's. Today, t... (more)

CP's flagship train The Canadian is one hour into its 2881 mile journey to Vancouver.

A spotless 6218 is about to depart St. Albans with its excursion train for the return trip to Montreal.

A hostler moves a leased Bangor and Aroostook GP7 and a CPR FP7A into the roundhouse at CPR's St. Luc Yard. The turntable still is used and eight of the thirty-seven stalls are intact. A number ... (more)

The conductor of a local on the West Side Canal Bank Track is calling the dispatcher to get permission to cross the busy, double track Montreal Subdivision mainline.

A one of a kind. Montreal Locomotive Works outshopped CP 4744 in May 1971 as a demonstrator. It was rated at 4,000 H.P. and was essentially an M-636 but with an 18 cylinder instead of a 16 cyli... (more)

Three eight month old, big MLW's accelerate a westbound manifest through suburban Montreal on their way to Smiths Falls.

The fireman and headend brakeman are going into the station to confer with the agent-operator before making a lift from the yard. Coteau was and still is a busy junction on the CN Kingston Sub. w... (more)

Displaying white flags as it is a passenger extra, a test train is running on a Sunday morning for CP to test its new gallery cars. The cars were built by Canadian Vickers for use on the Lakeshor... (more)

The overnight "Montreal Limited" from New York to Montreal lifts out of CPR's Westmount station for the last two miles of its run to CPR's Windsor Station.

An ex-NYC U-boat and ex-PRR Alco C630 power a freight on the ex-NYC water level route. While the diesels are new, second generation machines the ice reefers on the head pin are from another era.