I love this time of year! The emerging colors compliment any scene and when there's a train in it with matching colors, so much the better! Here SSR's 70-tonner hauls home the last excursion of th... (more)

Engineer Brad heads for the station for a cup of hot chocolate between Grinch Train runs. Never fear, kiddies, Santa will be coming next weekend to chase that nasty old grinch off the train!

In the fall of 2011 only one of the ex Rio Grande Ski Train F40s CN acquired to run their Agawa Canyon Tour Train had been repainted, the remaining two still in the bumble-bee yellow and black sch... (more)

On June 28, 2014 CN 908 Herzog ballast train had engine problems at Gravenhurst. After a half day of messing around down there they finally set out the majority of the hoppers on the siding there ... (more)

With headlights on and it's shrill, euro-sounding whistle trying in vain to be heard above the melodious bellow of the Alco's AirChimes a few hundred feet back, the van (caboose) leads the way as ... (more)

A week ago today it was snowing pretty good before daybreak but as morning came around it changed to rain. CN 451 had encountered the snow down around Washago and Gravenhurst and enough of it stuc... (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.

Railserve-operated leaser LTEX 3803 still looks pretty good in its old Aberdeen, Carolina and Western hunter green and cream paint as it finds a spot of sunlight while picking up tank cars for th... (more)

Day's End
A Brandt RTL (Road Transferable Locomotive) brings a few empty tie gons into Martins after sunset.

450 crosses the Old Muskoka Road and an adjacent snowmobile trail with handrail damage sustained the previous day in a collision with a downed tree.

ONR 2000 at rest behind the ONR Shops in North Bay.

1809's new paint needs a bit of a wash but it's still pretty shiny! Note the yellow ribbon on the back of the long hood.

BCRY 1001 - whose roots go back to the B & O - now proudly wears the name "Spirit of Collingwood", even though that town has earned a reputation for being railroad-unfriendly as of late. Here it w... (more)

A CP Foreman does a roll-by inspection for the Holiday Train as it heads north on the Hamilton Sub. When it reaches Guelph Junction it will pause there for about an hour before proceeding west to ... (more)

First fire in 3 years. Last night Judy and I spent 3 hours painting the boiler and steam dome with high-temp aluminum paint. This morning Chief Engineer Greg and I covered them with insulat... (more)