The northbound Agawa Canyon Tour train rolls through Searchmont, Ontario passing the foregone and dilapidated station. Built in 1902 it's the final station still standing along the line dating fro... (more)

The Agawa Canyon tour train cruises south through Searchmont beneath the backdrop of fall colours and rugged terrain, passing the once-proud station which has now fallen into disrepair. Despite an... (more)

ACR 1756 is northbound with train #1 at Searchmont in December of 1996. This train no longer runs and I wonder how people access some of their properties as this was their only form of transportat... (more)

1st No. 9 is northbound at Searchmont Station and will be getting orders from Agent-Operator Bill F.

Abandoned but not forgotten, about 30 miles north of Sault Ste Marine the Searchmont station is in rough shape but still standing from the AC days. Here the Canyon train races north past the old d... (more)

Snow has been falling all day, but that doesn't stop the former Algoma Central's passenger train from carrying on. This train is scheduled to be scrapped in late April 2014, unless plans can be ma... (more)

The ore loads from Wawa lean into a curve just south of Searchmont near sunset. Getting a shot with the whole train in sight on the former ACR was always a challenge due to the numerous curves. Th... (more)

AC 1753, 1756, 1750 shoot out of a cut and over a fill just south of Searchmont with train 4. The ACR line north of Sault Ste. Marie was rugged and for the most part fairly inaccessible, and even ... (more)

It gets overshadowed by the much more spectacular bridges to the north (Montreal River) and south (Bellevue Valley,) but CN's through-truss bridge over the Goulais River at Searchmont, on the old ... (more)

The Agawa Canyon tour train heads for Sault Ste Marie passing thru the iron bridge over the Goulais River

After over 100 miles of pure Northern Ontario forests, the southbound Tour of the Line is back to civilization as it twists through the small hamlet and ski resort of Searchmont, Ontario. The tire... (more)

When the WC first bought the ex VIA F's for Agawa Canyon service they tended to stay in passenger service, even during the peak fall color season when the tour train could run up to 30 cars. Durin... (more)

AC 1752,1754 make their way north with the Hearst train. Trains 1&2 normally were assigned one F during the warmer months but this train is a little longer with an extra coach due to a tour group ... (more)

AC F's 1753,1754 tackle Northland Hill south of Searchmont with a short extra that had been called out of Hawk Junction to do local work and collect a few ore loads that had been set out the previ... (more)

A call the previous evening had alerted us to this train being powered by a pair of F's. The F's had languished in storage most of the summer and were supposedly not to be ran again. Somehow this ... (more)