CP 8781 positively gleams as it approaches Valois Station leading CP 133 (CP 8132 is mid-train). This edition of CP 133 is 12,600 feet long, weighs in at 9,400 tons and will be good to do 60 MPH o... (more)

A pair of GP9's are returning to the main line after dropping off grain cars at Ardent Mills. They are crossing Charlevoix Street and a crewmember is flagging.

GP9s CN 4140 & CN 7060 are shoving four grain loads towards Ardent Mills, visible at far right. The train is paralleling the defrosting Lachine Canal.

Traffic resuming on the highway. CN 519 has just completed another harrowing crossing of the 4-lane, divided Trans-Canada Highway (Autoroute 20 here) as it heads south with CN 9592 and six ... (more)

After stopping so that a derail could be removed on the freight track, the Pointe St-Charles Switcher is heading west with CN 4795 & CN 7054 for power, with CN 305 at right. Soon it will back up t... (more)

After changing crews and letting VIA 62 and VIA 67 pass, CN 305 is on the move from Turcot Ouest. Leading is an ex-Citirail unit, a quite common sight in Montreal recently.

After picking up grain empties at Ardent Mills and leaving them in the siding at left, the Pointe St-Charles Switcher with CN 4808 & CN 4771 for power is about to couple onto the loads (at right) ... (more)

Meet under the skyline. CN 599 has CSX power and a long string of baretables for the Port of Montreal as it passes CN 321. CN 599 had been waiting for its signal, but is slowly picking up s... (more)

Quadruple zebras. A quartet of zebra striped geeps (CN 4808, CN 4771, CN 4141 & CN 4707) is heading to the shop track to grab a caboose (shoving platform at this point) before taking grain ... (more)

It's quite early in the morning as CP 253 is approaching Lasalle Yard with Navy unit CP 7022 leading CP 8155 & CP 8566. A late edition of counterpart CP 252 had just left here five minutes earlier... (more)

A pair of SD60M's (CP 6258 & CP 6262) lead CP 251 over the St. Lawrence River a bit before sunset.

Some nice light bathes EXO 1207 as it passes under a pair of signal gantries half an hour before sunset with AMT 1340 and four multilevel coaches, on its way to Mascouche.

A pair of barns (CMQ 9020 and CMQ 9017) have been on home turf during the past week, going back and forth between Maine on Montreal on CP 250/251. The presence of CP 6018 last though shows that th... (more)

Barns on a passenger-only line. If you had told me a year ago that I would see CMQ barns on the normally passenger-only CP Westmount Sub I would have been awfully surprised, but that's exac... (more)

CSXT B786 is backing up over the diamond at Cecile Junction as it works the CN interchange. The train is on CN's Valleyfield Sub, with the CSXT Montreal Sub crossing it at grade here. Power is CSX... (more)