Fall colors are beginning to line the peaks and valleys of the Northern Ontario boreal as CP 112 charges upgrade temporarily disturbing the tranquillity that is life in the hamlet of Mackenzie.

A welcome set of SD40-2's in different paint schemes leads an eastbound CWR/ballast train across the Nipigon Subdivision.

Westbound roadswitcher 421 with a big 10 upfront is finally assembled and ready to depart westbound on the Kaministiquia Subdivision. Today’s power includes an SD40-2, GP20-ECO, 2 new SD70’s, ... (more)

A pair of GE's belonging to two different roads arrive in Thunder Bay with a rather short westbound wayfreight. Seen here snaking around CN's Port Arthur yard, accepting the signal and about to cr... (more)

The daily westbound road switcher arrives in the Thunder Bay terminal and proceeds up the south track at Current River along the shores of Lake Superior. Seen crossing over McVicar creek, and pass... (more)

An early 421 arrives in Thunder Bay via the south track passing alongside Current River yard. The signal tower governing the plant at current river along with the HD/code line to the left have sin... (more)

CMQ 9020 idles quietly under the sand tower awaiting a lift east.

How quickly things change, with all the recent retiring and scrapping of units you’d be hard pressed to find even a basic set of power like this kicking around today. Here the daily westbound Ka... (more)

I know I know, one should be shot for posting such an image in June. In one of the worst storms in several years that saw a Colorado low enhanced by lake effect drop 1.5 feet on The Lakehead. CP 8... (more)

Still looking quite new at the time, rebuilt SD90-SD70 7053 rolls over the Matawin River with some local Northwestern Ontario lumber on the headend from Vermillion Bay.

CP 8500 leads today’s eastbound paper train departing Thunder Bay and temporarily heads away from the beautiful shores of Lake Superior charging up the steep grade to Loon.

After a 2 year hiatus, CP's Holiday Train arrives in Thunder Bay to entertain a massive crowd as CP 5006 looks on between yard assignments. Took several years of attempting this shot before yard p... (more)

CP 223 passes underneath the CN Kashabowie Sub as it heads west out of Thunder Bay.

On a cool fall day, CP 5692 sits silenly in the siding at Marathon.

A bitter cold snap ground CP operations to a halt in much of Canada for 10 or so days in February. Here a nicely blocked Sudbury-Winnipeg manifest extra arrives in Thunder Bay with backlogged traf... (more)