The famous Club Arlau curve at ground level. CN 369, heavily loaded with woodchips, lumber, aluminum and other products from northern Quebec heads south past the famous Club Arlau curve wit... (more)

Double hockeymask RDC's. At left is CP 9069, an RDC-1, at right is CP 9250, a rarer RDC-4. Behind is Hays Station and a retired GO Transit car is visible at right. For more train pho... (more)

Scale test cars. CN 527 is heading to Taschereau Yard with two Canac scale test cars in tow on a flatcar (CANX 52257 & CANX 52104 on flatcar CANX 61302).

A new (and longer) routing. With the Mount Royal tunnel closed since Friday evening (for at least three years as it gets reconstructed for the REM light rail project), some trains on the Ma... (more)

OEXX 26, an extremely rare MLW M420TR (end cab version of the M420W) heads east over the famous ex-CP Eastman trestle with the Orford Express train. Behind it are two RDC's, a dome car and an FL9 ... (more)

Leapfrogging. A Port of Montreal truck crosses one of the many crossings in this area, leapfrogging a slowly approaching train so that it can protect another crossing, as a transfer led by ... (more)

CP 8860 (freshly painted in the olympic paint scheme at the time) leads an intermodal train through the Lachine Yard, while a pair of GP9's idle nearby (CP 1697 and an unidentified 1500 series GP9... (more)

Christmas trees are for sale at the entrance to Exporail's parking lot and are seen around OSC 25, a steam engine that was in use until 1962 in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

A year ago I shot the Bangor & Aroostook heritage unit (CMQ 9017, an ex-CP SD40-2F) in Quebec for the first time as it layed over in Farnham. Here is a broadside shot of the shiny at the time unit... (more)

An unused switcher. This switcher is an MLW S-3 built for Bathurst Power & Paper in 1953 which Ivaco Rolling Mills acquired in 1999; The cab was rebuilt at some point. It clearly has not be... (more)

A clean 15th anniversary unit. CN 2115 is looking very clean as it teams with CN 8848 to bring a 98-car CN 393 through Montreal West the day after Montreal got a decent amount of snow. On t... (more)

CN X148 is meeting windmill train CN X319, which is about to depart Turcot Ouest with a fresh crew. After setting off most of its train at Taschereau Yard, CN X148 is continuing towards the Port o... (more)

A one of a kind MLW, ready for Christmas. CP 4744, the only MLW M640 ever built has been decorated for Christmas for the first time this year at Exporail. At left is rotary snowplow more)

In a not very common move, CN 527 is heading into the Port of Montreal light power with CN 2941 & CN 2609. It will pick up cars to bring to Taschereau yard and combine it with the rest of its trai... (more)

A VIA equipment move is arriving at CAD with VIA 6402 and VIA 8100, presumably one or both of these pieces of equipment will be worked on at CAD. It is on the CP Adirondack Sub, but will soon drop... (more)