Blowing past the crew change shack. Normally CN 305 would stop with its head end beside the shack at bottom right in this photo to change crews at Turcot West, but here a very late CN 305 b... (more)

An LRC business class car is on temporary trucks as it sits in the yard at Cad Railway Industries.

An FL9 pushes the Orford Express tourist train east over the famous ex-CP Eastman trestle. Ahead of it are two RDC's, a dome car and an even more obscure model, an MLW M420TR. For more train photo... (more)

Fresh rebuilds. A trio of fresh SD70ACU's (CP 7054, CP 7045 & CP 7055) lead a 140-car CP 253 over the St. Lawrence River. They had been delayed a bit south of here when a hotbox detector on... (more)

Failure to fly. CP 143 is stopped in Dorval due to issues with the leader (Air Force unit CP 7023) as crewmembers and shop forces look on. After more delay and having to set off a car, the ... (more)

Factory fresh. Brand new ET44AC CN 3069 is only a few weeks out of the factory as it leads CN 377 past some nice searchlight signals on CN's Kingston Sub in Beaconsfield. Operating mid-trai... (more)

Loaded potash train CN B730 is passing a full Southwark Yard with CN 3958 & CN 3261 up front, CN 2961 mid-train and CN 3871 on the tail end.

Both CP 4515 and CP 2307 (with cars) are both about to cross Lafleur Avenue at the same time as CP F95 attempts to lift empties from Total Fuel (at left). Iced over flanges would cause them to giv... (more)

Streamlined steam - Canadian vs. British. CP 2850 (the original Royal Hudson) and the Dominion of Canada are side by side in the center of Exporail's main building. They represent Ca... (more)

Shutting down a 70-tonner. With the recent acquisition of CN 7300, Exporail has announced that CN 30 will be retired from active duty. Up until last year, this GE 70-tonner had been one of ... (more)

British-built inspection cars. The Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario in Smiths Falls has a somewhat small but varied and interesting collection of Canadian railway equipment. In front of th... (more)

Running around. GP9's CN 4102 & CN 7054 have just shoved 7 grain cars onto a cut of grain cars on the freight track of CN's Montreal Sub and are heading west light so that they can run aro... (more)

Out from an endangered highway interchange. GP9's CN 7226 & CN 7075 have just passed under the Turcot interchange, which is being demolished and rebuilt, with some sections already gone. Th... (more)

More and more wraps. More and more VIA engines are getting wrapped for Canada's 150th anniversary this year, with 22 to be painted in total. Here wrapped VIA 908 leads VIA 60 which is disch... (more)

CP's holiday train at Montreal West for the first time. The Canadian version of the CP holiday train made its first stop of the year at Montreal West, which it has never done before. Here C... (more)