CN 451 hits a small snowbank deposited by the road plow earlier in the morning as it crosses North Lancelot Road, approaching the mileboard to Martins.

With CN 595 with the GP9 4132 working in the background the snow fighter does its stuff in the foreground as the Foreman in charge of the snow clearing operations seemingly floats above the main ... (more)

Looks almost like a posed shot, but in reality it's just two jobs juggling position on the same chunk of real estate. The snow fighter has pulled off the back track at Martins to allow 4132 in so ... (more)

Today's 451 has a freshly-painted Dash 9 leading a grimy Dash 8 cowl unit, approaching Domtar Road and the south switch at Martins at Mile 141 on the Newmarket Sub.

CN 451 rolls across the south end of Siding Lake, approaching the south switch at Martins at Mile 141 of the Newmarket Sub, as more snow clouds start to move in from the west.

In Better Days: With just a month remaining before the discontinuation of the Northlander passenger rail service, 1809 passes along the eastern shore of the appropriately-named Siding Lake,... (more)

4132 shoves 6 boxcars up the hill to the Panolam plant on this wintery "doomsday".

4132 prepares to push 6 boxcars up the hill to the Panolam plant on this wintery "doomsday".

If April is the cruelest month, Novermber surely must be a close second and therefore it tries harder! Cold, damp and lifeless, a purgatory between fall and winter it inflicts its depressing bruti... (more)

A crew member takes advantage of a 75 degree October day as CN 595 trundles slowly through Foreman McIntosh's limits approaching Martins, where the finishing touches on the Aspdin Road grade cross... (more)

698 rolls through Martins on a hot summer day.

Today's Northlander thunders past some of the MofW equipment used to replace "pretty much all of the ties in the siding" here at Martins, Mile 141 CN Newmarket Sub according to the workers I spoke... (more)

698 swoops down around the bend at Martins on a beautiful spring afternoon. In this view you can see the spur going off the back track and up the grade to the Panolam plant at the far left.

Late-season snow falls as 595 eases up to the south switch at Martins after a rare double meet that saw ONR 697 take the main northbound while this train plus CN 480 - a track geometry test train ... (more)

The crews of 595 and a snow removal team join forces to free a frozen switch at the south end of Martins Siding.