I'd met Ray at a weekly local car show and asked him to stop by sometime to take some shots of his sweet 1950 Meteor with the Portage Flyer. He kindly obliged by showing up the very next day, so I... (more)

Gone but not forgotten!

On a perfect spring day back in 2011 the Ontario Northland "Northlander" winds through the curves at Mile 144 of the CN Newmarket Sub just south o... (more)

Sparkling new 8839 appears to have escaped the previous day's blizzard relatively unscathed as it heads light westbound out of Oakville Yard. Snow must not stick to that shiny new paint very well.... (more)

Over 700 miles from home, I don't get many opportunities to visit St. John. Whenever I do, I come to this spot to try and catch a train crossing the bridge above the Reversing Falls and always got... (more)

Huntsville Station at sunset on a much warmer day than today. CN 4132 sits at the ready with a single cylindrical hopper, for delivery to the KWH Pipe facility when work resumes the next day.

A quick flashback a couple of years to when the Northlander still plied the rails sees 697 passing Siding Lake on a typical winter day in Muskoka, with the skies beginning to clear after a morning... (more)

Zoom-pan of CN 595, engine 4132 running long hood forward as a light power move. She is approaching CN Newmarket Sub Mile Marker 138 on return from Longford Mills, with freshly-fallen flurries (ho... (more)

Cold, rainy days in July may indeed be miserable but they do have some redeeming factors. It's nice and cozy in the cab (as opposed to the usual sauna) and the steam hangs around a lot bett... (more)

Winter Wonderland (the down side): Employees resort to using the heat from a fusee to thaw out a frozen switch lock as 4136 waits patiently.

The low evening sun can't reach very far into this older residential area of Guelph but there's enough shining down the right-of-way to give a nice glint off the Guelph Junction Express as it head... (more)

No, I wasn't tipsy when I shot this one - observe the trees on the horizon are vertical - but this does illustrate the undulating terrain of the area. YDHR RS-3 #1310 comes up out of a dip and le... (more)

A chain-saw sculptor took advantage of the city works department cutting down a diseased elm providing this unique counterpoint to the goings-on at the Orr Road crossing. Railserve employees prote... (more)

Inspired by a recent RP forum discussion on B&W conversion initiated by Renaud Chodkowski. To my eye, the backlit yellow leaves look like they were captured on Ilford XP2 through a yellow filter.

CN 633 the Agawa Canyon Tour Train consisting of mostly ex Rio Grande Ski Train equipment holds the main while the 631 passenger train from the Soo to Hearst takes the siding at Canyon.

GO 540 streaks through Oakville Station with an empty train headed for Willowbrook Yard in golden evening light. The evening rush over, its work is complete for another day. Now that the dirt pile... (more)