A different kind of "Red Barn" On a pleasant afternoon, the empty ballast work train passes the leaning Finnish-owned farm that rests between the road and the rails.

After being told by the operations manager that the run was cancelled, I decided to head for home. On my way, I stopped by the shops around the back of the yard, and after introducing myself to an... (more)

Three matching ex-CN geeps lead 49 cars filled with product from Essar Steel Algoma

The Huron Central Railway has leased two ex-CN SD40-2(W) locomotives to operate a ballast train during the upgrading of their Sudbury-Soo line. Here the train has pulled into the siding at Blind... (more)

Canadian Pacific 9001 builds (and later leads) HCRY train 912 for the 179 mile journey to Sudbury.

Their work done at Domtar, the switcher crew has now returned to McKerrow, coupled onto Sault Ste. Marie-bound traffic that had been brought out of Sudbury that morning, and tied the train down in... (more)

The Espanola Switcher goes about its work at Domtar's large complex in the train's namesake town. Paper mills always make for an excellent cold-weather backdrop!

Huron Central wayfreight from Sudbury heads towards the Domtar pulp&paper mill to do some switching

The sun glints off the mother of road slug 800 as HCRY 911 clings to the side of a snow covered hill top.

With a CP unit thrown in for good measure today, 912 prepares to depart for Sudbury. Meanwhile, on the freshly reballasted old main, the switcher waits to retrieve a cut of empty steel cars and ma... (more)

Soo-to-Sudbury freight 912 rolls across the fields of Bar River. On the head end is a cut of pulpwood logs for the paper mill at Espanola, which are loaded at our yard in Sault Ste. Marie.

The Espanola turn backs into the Eacom Timber (former Domtar/EB Eddy Forest Products) sawmill while a load of sawlogs heads for the mill.

Clicking and clacking along the 300km link of the Trans Canada Highway between Sudbury and Sault Ste Marie, a 61 car freight train heads towards Sault Ste Marie. With quite a bit of steel, pulp wo... (more)

Sudbury - Sault Ste Marie freight moves across the top of Lake Huron through numerous farms.

Officially, it's known as "SMSU." To the guys up in the cab, though, it's simply "802 East," and to the rest of us on the railroad, it's usually referred to by its old number of 912. Either way, i... (more)