VIA 76 glides into Oakville behind 6409. The leprechauns were smiling upon me this St. Paddy's Day evening as all the VIAs I caught had F40PHs leading, not a P42DC to be seen! While panning at 1/1... (more)

Amtrak 91 leads VIA 97/Amtrak 64 - "The Maple Leaf" - westbound through Oakville on the first leg of its daily TO - NYC run, passing a GP40-2L(W) working the yard.

The sun is going down just a bit of light left and these brand new SD70M-2's are just a week or 2 old, and already in service CN 8883,8879 are seen in CN Oakville yard setting off it's train. As ... (more)

A pair of GP9s switch Oakville Yard with a couple of railfans shooting the shadow side from the parking lot across the tracks. In the background a pair of widecab geeps sit coupled to a long strin... (more)

553 pulls out of the yard so it can back the empty autoracks up to the Ford plant while a pair of GP40-2LWs wait for a crew in the background.

7039 leads 553 bound for Oakville Yard just before the sun drops below the treeline. The signals at Park Royal in the background are actually just inside the Mississauga border.

7019 leads a GP38-2 and a GP40-2LW past some MoW equipment working on the new third main just west of Park Royal (the signals in the background) across the Mississauga-Oakville town line and into ... (more)

CN 7019 leads a nice GMD consist out of Park Royal in Mississauga and into Oakville, past some new third main trackwork. In addition to 7019 there was (GP38-2)4717 and (GP40-2LW) 9543. The last tw... (more)

VIA 75 streaks past the trackwork for the new third main and into the gathering dusk, as the remaining sunset illuminates the buildings behind. This track has finally made it across the 16 ... (more)

Saturday afternoon in Oakville Yard.

One of CN's earlier SD70M-2s leads train 435 out of Oakville Yard after dropping half it's train there. In my opinion these high-headlight units look plain if not downright ugly compared to the la... (more)

Oakville Yard is a somber place today in spite of the sun starting to peek through the clouds. Early yesterday a 42-year-old CN Brakeman succumbed to injuries sustained while switching boxcars at ... (more)

Westbound VIA 73 with a GE up front and Spiderman F40PH 6408 pushing approaches Kerr Street in Oakville, shortly after departing Oakville Station. I'm assuming the rear section will be tomorrow mo... (more)

With grimy streaks running down its cab and nose 9468 rests in Oakville Yard on a chilly Saturday afternoon.

VIA 73 heads west across the 16 Mile Creek Valley. As you can plainly see we've missed most of the winter storms that have been hitting our neighbors to the south and west of us along with the maj... (more)