Two RDC-2's and two RDC-1's make up the inbound, all stops, local from Farnham, QC to Montreal. The train is running against the current of traffic on the southward track as S-2 7014 switches Las... (more)

Crescent is where the B&M - D&H trackage splits 9.7 miles west of Mechanicville. My notes are incomplete but retired B&M dispatcher Wayne Hills suspects this westbound is a "short turn"... (more)

Train 490's tail end is off the East Alburgh trestle on which there is a 10 MPH speed limit and the train now is picking up speed on its way to St. Albans. The track is so close to busy Vermont H... (more)

Train 904, with an interesting lashup of pooled CP and B&M power (RS-18/F7B/RS-10/RS-23), grinds up Newport Hill. 904 was one of the hottest "fast freights" on the CP, running from Wind... (more)

A C630M, GP-9 and C424 drift downgrade approaching Ballantyne, where they will divert from the mainline and head into Montreal Yard.

Two leased EL E-8's lead "The Laurentian" southbound on the Napierville Junction Railway a mile south of the connection with the CP at Delson. In a week these units will be returned to ... (more)

Four units on the head-end and manned pushers on the tail-end of an eastbound (railroad westbound) freight grind upgrade on their climb of the SP's Cascade Line from Oakridge to Cascade Summit.

Two GP38-2's lead a loaded coal train downgrade past the former Winifrede Railroad enginehouse. The coal will be loaded into barges on the Kanawha River at Chesapeake WV. The barge loading facili... (more)

One of Consolidated Sand and Gravel's critters spots gondolas underneath the loader.

This was one of ten SW1200RS's normally assigned to the CPR's Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia. Occasionally one would be in Montreal for work at the Angus Shops. There was one SW1200RS a... (more)

The Trainmaster normally assigned to Hochelaga transfers is heading to Lasalle. It is leaving St. Luc Yard and is on the Farnham Connection moving through the Wentworth Golf Course, which was own... (more)

A conventional consist replaces the usual "Railliner" Budd cars on the morning Sherbrooke, QC to Montreal local.