The Niles Canyon Railway yard in Brightside, Ca. With it's panoply of engines, one can still feel what it was like to work with one of those horses.
After a long trip on the Route 66 it was time to head back home. Since UP was running their proudest piece of equipment near of where we were, why not take a little detour to Delta and take a look... (more)
Once again mother nature decided to cool us down a bit at the same time the train was departing with loaded aluminium bloc flats. Sun and rain normaly create rainbows, but it wasn't the time to lo... (more)
Still during our Route 66 trip, we stopped at the Western America Railroad Museum where this piece of equipment sits quietly. It sure does look like it could use a shampoo!
After our arrival at Santa Fe depot in San Diego, train #564 was waiting under the palm trees and the buildings to become train #573 and head back to Los Angeles.
Just before Arvida is the Chicoutimi River dam. The Port-Alfred to Arvida train rolls steadily right next to the reservoir before crossing the bridge over the dam at Pont-Arnaud.
VIA 27, ready to go to Montreal, leaves the station and crosses the old rotary bridge by this beautiful day.
Still on the Route 66, after a detour which forced us to leave route 66 for a while, we got back on it at Amboy, right in time to see the unit grain train we saw the day before in Flagstaff. It wa... (more)
CP's presidential train is passing near the mill at Cookshire-Eaton, Qc. The one I think is the conductor is watching us bozos taking the same but different picture.
BNSF 6840 leads a train of pigs and stack over the Missouri River.
This is the returning trip from Rio Tinto's Grande-Baie facilities. It is coming downhill with empty hoppers and loaded flats of aluminium bars.
After dropping off car at the grain elevator at Les Foulons, CN 516 goes back engine light toward Ste-Foy yard for some more switching.
Following the now famous Route 66 on a foggy morning near Amarillo, we passed by this stopped coal train.
