CN meets CP. CN conductor and RP contributor Mike Da Costa watches the action at the Nassagaweya 1st Line crossing at the west end of Guelph Junction. A CP employee walks behind an eastbound stack... (more)

104 and 105 run around the tour train at Agawa Canyon in preparation for the return trip to Sault Sainte Marie, joining 106 which was on the tail end for the northbound journey.

CN 451 arriving at Huntsville just as the morning fog begins to lift. The weathering on CN 4762, the power for this week's CN 595 (the Huntsville Roadswitcher) might lead one to think it had sat t... (more)

After waiting for the passage of 451, CN 595 waits some more while the south switch at Martins is chopped free of ice.

CN 4132 idles in Huntsville Yard shortly after dawn while waiting for the day's work to begin. I didn't notice until after I got home and started post-processing this image that the Huntsville Tra... (more)

A late-running CN 451 winds its way through Huntsville, past an empty set of tie gons on a chilly winter morning.

The Lounge Car brings up the rear of the Polar Bear Express which has just finished discharging it's passengers from Moosonee at Cochrane Station. Dome car "Otter Rapids" can be seen 3 cars up. Sh... (more)

Mid-way through a tough battle with frozen switches CN 4132 has dropped its single empty ethylene oxide tank car from Stepan Chemicals in Longford Mills on the siding track at Martins, run around ... (more)

On a hot summer day in 2008 passengers on VIA's westbound "Canadian" enjoy a stroll while the train takes on fuel and a new crew in Capreol, Ontario.

3612 begins to lean into the curve at Owen Rd., but that's as far as she's going today. Engineer Brad will hold up here for a few minutes while the grinch does his thing then push back to Uxbridge... (more)

CN 451 slips into the sleeping town of Huntsville about an hour before sunrise, with icy fog lifting off the frozen surface of Hunter's Bay in the background.

Oops!

Some days you're better off staying in bed, and this was one of mine.

Don't laugh! Oh, go ahead, laugh if you must! It is a funny looking little critter, but on a small narrow gauge operation like ours it actually comes in pretty handy, doing tr... (more)

Ontario Northland's 2013 Christmas Train delights the crowd at North Bay Station on a chilly December evening.

CN 4132, the usual power for the Huntsville Roadswitcher CN 595, endures yet another New Year's Day snowsquall in a series that hasn't ended since last year! Okay, I guess I should say "has... (more)