The engineer climbs back aboard his F40PH no. 6419 to continue eastbound after a quick stop at Parent, on VIA Rail's Sunday Abitibi no. 606 from Senneterre to Montreal.

Having run down across the Manatee River, the power has run around the train and will return to Tampa with #2 leading.

VIA Rail's Abitibi pauses at Parent, a small settlement along CN's remote Saint-Maurice subdivision, to deliver mostly groceries that were loaded a few hours earlier in La Tuque.

VIA Rail's Abitibi from Montreal to Senneterre in northern Quebec reached its destination in the late evening hours, with the light from baggage car no. 8622 casted onto the snowy platform.

VIA Rail's Sunday-morning Abitibi (no. 606) is lined up at Senneterre for the 9.28 departure of the 440 mile run to Montréal.

Wrap VIA 6437 pushes VIA 33 over the Lachine Canal as it back out after leaving Central Station, on its way to Ottawa.

Amtrak 90221, one of Amtrak's cab car "cabbage" locomotives (this painted to honor veterans), leads inbound Hiawatha train 342 out of Glenview, IL headed toward Chicago.

VIA 63 out of Montreal is double-headed by F40PHs nos. 6411 and 6435 as is sets out to pass over the stripped former lift bridge crossing the Lachine Canal in front of the obscured Wellington towe... (more)

Executive Tour! The CSX OCS made a surprise run down the A line today seen in Seville bound for Taft and the Tampa Bay area where it made trips into Bradenton and Bone Valley.

What we have here is an aborted run of the OCS to Saint Petersburg heading back to Jacksonville, meeting a monster M453 heading south, thus bypassing the famous street running. Silver linings pla... (more)

VIA 63 passes the snow-covered Peel Basin with VIA 6429 leading four LRC cars.

OCS on the Manatee. This was the final leg of a day-long run across the Bone Valley, leading (as usual) to speculation about its future. Since 2021, the train has now made three trips into the r... (more)

#2 leading on 2-22. How about that. This is the first time I can remember the OCS moving through here in many, many years. The brass toured the Bone Valley from Tampa eastward (both railroad south... (more)

OCS is on the final portion of its all-day Bone Valley tour, heading straight down to Bradenton. The bridge tender here controls Alafia, Little Manatee and Manatee River bridges.

If this was an excursion, this would be the epitome of "rare mileage", the OCS toured the entire Bone Valley on this day and in doing so ran into areas they had to run around the train, this allow... (more)