Q198's train gathers speed as its tailend has just cleared the siding at Irma.

CN 8802 heads up a Loaded Windmill Blade train. X319 splits the frozen countryside by Le Ferre Lake on CN's South Bend Sub.

An extra Winnipeg to Markham intermodal passes a stand of Birch trees descending Steelton Hill. The double tracking has opened up a lot of photo angles.

The DPU on Grande Prairie bound A458 prepares to depart Swan Landing yard.

In the sunset, CN 309 meets VIA #14 (Montreal-Halifax) on the CN Saint-Hyacinthe Subdivision. At the end of VIA #14, you can see "Tweedsmuir Park".

CN U710 with a pair of BNSF GEVOs in trail bring another 100 crude oil loads through the GTA bound for Quebec.

A CN SD70M-2 and a C40-8 pass West Bridge Junction, headed south towards Markham with a stack train.

Shortly after sunrise, intermodal train Q195 powers north past the grain elevator in Indian Oaks, not too far out of Kankakee and Bourbonnais.

CN SD70M-2 8802 and CN C40-8 2115 cruise downgrade on the single track between Hargwen and Medicine Lodge with train G834.

Things were hopping at Joliet yard this day. Note the unique switches in the yard along with the only remaining EJE GP38-2 703 in the background.

An electrically interlocked derail guards a seldom used siding at Copetown, ON as CN 8802 approaches the crest of the Dundas hill.

An extra L573 blast thru Rockwell City on their way west to Arthur, IA. In 23 miles this job will hang a right at CTC Ida onto the Ida Grove Sub for the 18 miles trip to Arthur's Ethanol Plant. Th... (more)

An extra L573 has just got done with their work at Knierim and ties back onto their train. Waterloo Roundhouse decided not to send out units back to back so this extra is running alittle unusual w... (more)

Every time I visit the Ashcroft area, the mountains and cliff sides always reminded me of my favorite television show as I child: The Road Runner and Willie Coyote. Here we see an eastbound grain ... (more)