CP 9138 & CP 9588 haul 97 platforms for Fraser Surrey Docks, Vanterm, Centerm, Delta Port, and CPR Vancouver - Pitt Meadows IMS in Vancouver, BC

CP 421 lead by a couple of SD40-2's have 112 cars in hand riding the yellows behind 101 ... (more)

Toronto - Winnipeg freight train 421 eases into Heron Bay crossing the Pic River.

Leased ONT 1600 switches out paper cars in the yard in a spring blizzard. The locomotive was later sold to Diesel Electric Services and repainted, the mill closed for good 12-2014.

Set up to fail... CP 8536 + CP 6610 pull 97 cars through a "restricting block" with no shot for the hill, and traction motors cut out on the 6610 fate would be ahead at mile 79. CP 112-2... (more)

CN 5273 + CN 5452 team up to deliver a detoured Winnipeg - Chicago - Sarnia train ; running around the Great Lakes

Switching

CP 5021 leads a small "pickup" train from Chapleau to Schreiber. The locomotive will be used later in the day to move boarding cars. Enroute, a bad/order repaired three pack was lifted, ... (more)

CN SD40u 6023 heads light across town for a 11 car pickup at Neebing before leaving to Atikokan Marmion Lake, ON.

CN 2241 hustles into Hornepayne nearing the end of the run from Capreol.

On the payroll; the trains pay my wages.... Hired by CN Engineering; March 15, 2010 (after a layoff from Canac Rail/Marathon Pulp in 03-2009 [plant closure] and just 2 days shy of a year of employ... (more)

With no room in the yard at Marathon, in a rare event woodchips head west of Marathon. Here at Neys, the track snakes around beside the Trans Canada Highway.

At MP 94, CP crosses over the Steel River, then through a tall rock cut and followed by the Steel Tunnel. CP #RMS-DC 1, conveyor, caboose-12 axles @ 12:00

Shortly after joining up the siding extension to a 200ft section off the new switch, we clear for the Eastbound Canadian.

CP 112 knocks down a medium to stop signal at the west switch of Heron Bay. This is the most easterly point North of Superior on the CP.