118 rolls east on the last leg of its trip to Cartier with 7018 in its classic Maroon and Grey livery leading the charge. After nervously crossing our fingers all day for an arrival in daylight, t... (more)

CP train 407 heads around the curve at Benny powered by 5701, 5411, 5503. 407 normally had a cut of mixed manifest followed with a large cut of COFC/TOFC and today's train was no exception with a ... (more)

CP 5546,5552 and leaser 5083 roll 67 cars of manifest freight past a small pond near Benny. On this day a steel gang was busy in the area and had just cleared up after a long work window allowing ... (more)

The CPR always seemed to be in a perpetual power shortage for as far back as I can remember. It was probably due to the harsh winter's and yearly avalanche of grain movements that seemed to chew t... (more)

CP train 407 cruises past Benny on a chilly winter afternoon. CP 5651, GATX 7371 and CP 5511 are the power and they have a good roll on the mix of TOFC/COFC and manifest traffic.

Train 401 was the hottest train passing through Cartier in the early 90's. It was a Toronto-Vancouver job and was in the Sudbury area early morning. Power was normally three SD40-2's, In this bitt... (more)

CP 4721 and 4505 lead the Ramsey Turn westbound at Benny. The steel gang has been working in the area and have cleared the main at Benny siding to let a number of stacked up west-bound's go. SD40-... (more)

I used to spend a lot of time in Northern Ontario, and it wasn't for the SD40's. Although in retrospect they were pretty cool too. Anyway here is M630 4565 leading 4725 and train 935 out of the cl... (more)