Before radios - the engineer has the brakeman clearly in view as they switch the CN interchange at Delson.

Power off an arriving train is serviced at the fueling and sanding pad known as "The Coal Chute". The adjacent coaling tower, not used since 1960, was demolished over twenty years ago b... (more)

The "Montreal Limited", the overnight train from Albany to Montreal, has just crossed the CPR's St. Lawrence River bridge and has another six miles to go to its destination at CPR's Win... (more)

Train 92 from Sherbrooke QC arrives at the north end of Newport yard. This was a fourth class, daily except Sunday train that ran from Sherbooke to Newport over the Quebec Central Railway, a CPR ... (more)

The switch crew has pulled the empty grain boxcars from the Occident Flour mill in south Buffalo.

Three RS-23's await their next assignment outside St. Luc's 37 stall roundhouse. The RS-23 was a Montreal Locomotive Works creation in response to CP's need for light roadswitchers, referred to a... (more)

Two RS-18's climb St. Lazare Hill with three dimensional loads on the head end.

A EL switcher and a northbound D&H freight wait for westbound PB-99 to change crews and head west.

This ex-U.S. Army Whitcomb built in 1944 was one of Union Carbide's in-plant switchers at this ferro-alloys plant near Montreal.

In the early 1970's the Quebec North Shore and Labrador began retiring some of the GP-9's as SD40's and SD40-2's came onto the roster. Four GP9's are stored at the Coal Chute in CPR's St. Luc Yar... (more)

Today's fourth class Train 50 is powered by one of two S-2's assigned to Newport VT. The daily except Sunday fourth class freight worked between Newport and Wells River. It was a turn that retur... (more)

CP's flagship train The Canadian has only seven cars as it begins its 2,881 mile journey to Vancouver. The passenger equipped GP-9 is a rare sight as the normal lashup out of Montreal was GMD A a... (more)