IC 2700 leads CN 105 past the nicely wrapped water tower at Washago.
My little part of the Great White North made a pathetic attempt to live up to its name yesterday morning which all got washed away by rain. Made another half-hearted try this morning as 4700 worke... (more)
2569 leads an SD70I, a Dash 8-40CM and an SD75I out of the low winter sun through Aldershot on the CN Oakville Sub.
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)
The CP Holiday Train will wait for an eastbound stack train here at Guelph Junction before proceeding west to its first performance of the night at Galt.
The CP Holiday Train passes the photo line at Nassagaweya 1st Line and Sideroad 3, just south of Guelph Junction
Night has fallen in the Speed River Valley but there's still just enough light left over from the sunset to reflect some color from 506's jet-black hood as the Guelph Junction Express "Santa Expre... (more)
Creeping shadows will soon hide the creeping weeds that in turn appear ready to swallow up CN 4136, at rest on the spur at Huntsville Station.
One of the YDHR's pair of RS-3s at rest on a Saturday morning in Uxbridge
YDHR's RS-11 sits with boarded-over windows to protect the replacement windows installed because some local punk(s) decided to bust out the old ones one night.
5775's nose glows in the setting sun as it leads train 435 through Oakville Station. Third unit is BC Rail 4619.
After waiting for track repairs to be completed CN 148 will travel over the area that was worked on at a limit of 10MPH, then the foreman will inspect the track before removing the speed restricti... (more)
A parade of MoW equipment including this rail spiker scurries south (timetable west) to Mansewood to allow trains 148 and 422 to proceed on their way east. 148 will travel over the area that was w... (more)
The Guelph Junction Express lunch train crosses the Eramosa River on it's way back to Guelph.
Oakville Yard, once a bastion of old GP9s with the occasional GMD1 thrown in for good measure, is seeing some change as there are more GP38-2s these days. 4717 works the west yard lead while 4700 ... (more)
Inspired by a recent RP forum discussion on B&W conversion initiated by Renaud Chodkowski. To my eye, the backlit yellow leaves look like they were captured on Ilford XP2 through a yellow filter.
CN 435 with a couple of classic GMDs - including a GP40-2L(W) - in tow, crossing the Grand River in Paris.
VIA 72 passes under the west signals at Snake with a few autumn leaves still clinging to the branches.
105 leads the tour train into Agawa Canyon Park on a sunny autumn day, past the old section house which now serves as the park's First Aid post.
We were given the option of taking the southbound passenger train from Agawa Canyon back to the Soo and jumped at the chance to spend a couple more hours in the park. Lost track of where we were b... (more)
The Canyon View "camp car". Our home in the canyon for five days, most of them cloudy and rainy but all of them wonderful! Formerly a Wisconsin Central caboose, you can still see the WC herald sho... (more)
105 leads the tour train into Agawa Canyon Park on a sunny autumn day.
I was hoping for a bit better fall colors, but at least we caught the loco leading this time.
Colorful motor cars parade through a colorful landscape. Loco type correction submitted 2009-10-17, should read Fairmont Speeder. Let's see how long it takes to get done!
CN 633 the Agawa Canyon Tour Train consisting of mostly ex Rio Grande Ski Train equipment holds the main while the 631 passenger train from the Soo to Hearst takes the siding at Canyon.
Agawa Canyon Tour Train riders usually come away with the obligatory "posing with the locomotives" and "looking down from the Lookout with the train facing away from you" shots. The only way to ge... (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.
This train was all over the national news tonight with our Prime Minister Stephen Harper aboard pitching his economic initiatives, one of which will be of great benefit to this road. NBSR put toge... (more)
Watching the news tonight a bite showing this power set hosting Canada's Prime Minister sent me scrambling to my NB files where I found this shot of train 908 crossing the international border fro... (more)
GO's newest cab car (that I'm aware of anyway) leading a westbound passes by the new trackwork for the third main, having just met VIA 76 the tail-end of which can barely be seen pulling into the ... (more)
VIA 83 with filthy-faced 6441 in the lead passes by the new trackwork for the third main being laid approaching Kerr Street. In the foreground a student - having just used the new bridge in the ba... (more)
Extra 2517 East test train had me skunked an hour or so earlier after I chased it out from Burlington West to here when it stopped just shy of this bridge behind some trees, and proceeded to back ... (more)
Temiskaming & Northern Ontario 137 on display in front of Cochrane Station looks like she could use a little TLC before it's too late!
Over 700 miles from home, I don't get many opportunities to visit St. John. Whenever I do, I come to this spot to try and catch a train crossing the bridge above the Reversing Falls and always got... (more)
9/9/2009 government and railroad dignitaries get together to comemmorate a $36M investment for track and equipment (and by extension rail service) improvements in the NBSR service area. The railro... (more)
VIA 912 in charge of VIA 75 accelerates westbound out of Oakville Station - finally getting up enough speed for a bit of zoom-pan motion blur. Taken at 1/20th second, hand held, IS "on" for anyone... (more)
Spidey's just a blur as the F40 he's clinging to screams through Oakville Station, past an SD45D (uh, that's the Volvo...) parked for the night at the west end of the station parking lot.
Railserve operated LTEX 2077 crosses Orr Road with tankers from the PetroCanada Clarkson refinery. Note the Aberdeen, Carolina and Western lettering still partially visible on the long hood.
Heading for Niagara Falls as viewed from the Oakville Station parking lot. The excavator's bucket has been removed and it will be used like this to pre-position the rails for the installation of t... (more)
A partial TEE trainset (a locomotive/coach, several more coaches and another cab/coach had previously been repatriated to Europe) sits derelict near North Bay's Waterfront Park just east of the ex... (more)
Having left South River before 698 started boarding passengers there (and making good time down to Huntsville) I thought I'd tie on a lure and cast a few from the boardwalk along the south shore o... (more)
What's wrong with this picture? Well if you're a train buff, lots! The good news is that Temiskaming and Northern Ontario 503 is supposed to be moved to the west side of the old CPR Station (now r... (more)
1806 heading up the Northlander from North Bay stares down the setting sun as passengers unload at Cochrane Station. I asked the engineer if I could cross to this platform to make this shot, he sa... (more)
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)
Power for the Polar Bear express rests on the Store Creek Bridge awaiting the 18:00 departure to Cochrane from Moosonee Station.
A trio of Dash 9s including BC Rail 4650 lead CN 106 down the Bala Sub at Washago. Trailing unit is CN 2529.
Having chased the Northlander south from Huntsville we got a few minutes ahead and waited in the shade of some big maples for it to get to Washago, where it picked up one passenger and continued s... (more)
Heading south through Martins and about to cross one of the best pike-fishing lakes in the area.
While some are wont to spend their lives looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, I'm perfectly satisfied with an old orangey-red bucket or two. 1423 and a couple of friends bask in ... (more)
Budd RDCs modified/rebuilt by Morrison-Knudson in 1982 as unpowered passenger cars, but with cab control systems intact. RS-23 OSRX 506 provides the power. Don't try this at home, kids! Photos ta... (more)
Budd RDCs modified/rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen in 1982 as unpowered passenger cars, but with cab control systems intact. RS-23 OSRX 506 provides the power.
With a bit of a lurch 506 uncouples from the Guelph Junction Express Budd cars and heads to the shed for the night while excursion operator John empties out the cars in the background. For this "a... (more)
Old vs new. In the middle of the evening rush a GO equipment move led by an MPI heads back to Toronto for another load while a westbound pushed by an F59PH whizzes into Oakville Station.
Eastbound GO passes through 9th Line just east of Oakville Yard. The dash cam appeared to be pointed directly at me as I shot from the sidewalk on the Royal Windsor Drive overpass.
Finishing its descent of the Niagara Escarpment CN 2722 leads its train off the Dundas Sub and onto The Oakvile Sub at Bayview.
GO Transit's ever-expanding service now includes 4-times daily weekend-only trains from Toronto Union to Niagara Falls. Here GO 600 pushes an early-morning Falls-bound run through Bayview Junction... (more)
Westbound VIA departing Oakville
Typically a night runner (in my experience at least) a short 557 pulls through Oakville Station in the evening light.
A pair of westbound GOs approaching Toronto Union meet an eastbound departing.
At the start of the evening rush passengers swarm the new "add-on" platforms as westbound GO trains stack up to take them home from another day's work in the city. A close observer will be able to... (more)
CP 7069 is one of the few pieces of equipment not under protective wraps as construction takes place at the TRHA's museum located at the old CP John St. Roundhouse. Shot from just over 1.100 ft th... (more)
VIA 675 heads west out of Oakville station past a backhoe working on the new third main project, parked for the weekend in ideal position to use as a frame.
4700 and 4018 set out empties for the Ford plant. The grade they are on actually slopes upward from right to left although it appears the opposite here due to angle perspective.
This geep/slug set has been sitting in Oakville Yard for over a week, but this is the first time I've been able to catch 'em in action since I saw them in transit on train 385, January 03 at Scotc... (more)
CN 422 pulls past CN Oakville Sub mile marker 35.4 into Aldershot to drop 22 cars, in this view from the Lemonville Road bridge.
CN 422 pulls through Snake into Aldershot to drop 22 cars on it's way to Mac Yard in Toronto.
908 hauls train 95 past the Procor facility opposite the Bronte GO Station in west Oakville.
VIA 95 accelerates out of Oakville Station, heading out over the Sixteen Mile Creek Valley enroute to Niagara Falls.
4700 and 4018 spot empty autoracks at the Ford plant.
Westbound 83 meets eastbound GO at the west end of Oakville Yard.
Workin' on the night moves... Getting the clear to leave the passing track at Oakville Station and go on to Main #2 CN 557's lead unit belches a skyful of blue oil smoke as she accelerates westwar... (more)
A pair of geeps wait to gain access to the Ford plant on the bridge over Royal Windsor Drive as a GO train passes under the bridge that carries this same road over the CN Oakville Sub in the dista... (more)
A pair of old geeps build 557 in Oakville Yard for tonight's trip west to Aldershot while coincidentally just a few miles west 547 out of Aldershot is switching the PetroCanada refinery in Bronte ... (more)
M304 passes by the old coaling tower at Washago in the background and the Longford spur in the foreground on a beautiful spring day - if it weren't for the blackflies!
BCRY's "Spirit of Collingwood" has dropped a tanker at the Canadian Mist Distillery (the SPIRITS of Collingwood???)and pulled clear while it is being filled - or emptied, I'm not quite sure of the... (more)
VIA 83 screams through the curve at Mile 21 approching Oakville Station, it being the only westbound that doesn't stop here.
VIA 95 blasting through Oakville's west industrial area at track speed after it's stop at the station a mile or so back.
VIA 904 - with it's extra HID headlight unfortunately not lit up for this shot - leads Niagara Falls bound 95 out of Oakville Station. The dude up on the 7th balcony of the nearest condo has a gre... (more)
ZOOM-PAN of VIA 83 blasting through Oakville Station at ~80mph, under the soon-to-be-gone signal bridge at the west end of the platforms. 1/25th second @ f20, ISO 50.
Leaning into the curve approaching Oakville Station.
The Telus "megabooger" was in charge of VIA 95 seen here rolling into Oakville Station yesterday afternoon. I rode this train as far as St. Catherines and then back today as VIA 92.
YDHR 22 is mobile once again after sitting out the past 5 years with a cracked cylinder. Unfortunately I was not able to record this occasion due to not having a car the past few weeks, and not en... (more)
4700's new paint job is fast approaching 2 years old but it still looks pretty darn good! Here it idles away a sunny Sunday afternoon with a couple of the half-dozen GP9s scattered about the yard.... (more)
A pair of old geeps working Aldershot Yard pull out for headroom past GP38-2(W) 4775 and GP9Rm 4108.
VIA 75 begins to lean into the curve at mile 21 just east of Oakville Station.
Zoom-pan of VIA 83 passing through Oakville Station. Since 83 is one of the few VIAs that doesn't stop at Oakville I was expecting him to blast through the station as usual, but he got slowed by a... (more)
