The "West Local" is departing Brantford for Hamilton in the late evening light after setting off 6 empty flats cars and lifting 10 flat cars of new Massey Ferguson combines. TH&B 77 is leading a t... (more)

While making the joint on their lift of 4 gons of scrap steel (note the crew person between the flat car and gon) I manage to catch a faint rainbow over the train. TH&B 73 will pull ahead and back... (more)

The power from WQSTO2 CR 7440 - CR 5826 are backing out of the spur at Airport after placing a CN double door box car. They had picked up the car from the interchange yard at Hagersville on the he... (more)

Having put their train together, the West Local heads around the east leg of the wye at Waterford on it's way back towards Hamilton. TH&B 73 has 8 cars in tow with TH&B wide vision van #81 on the ... (more)

Remember back in steam days when brakeman used to ride in a little enclosure at the back of the tender. Well now CN puts them on a pair of silver chairs on the hood between the 48" fan and the cab... (more)

Long a fixture at the Brantford Yard CN 7000 is down on the Burford Sub as the 2nd trick yard crew has just finished spoting the Railbox at the Gazer Wool Stock plant. They are now backing up to t... (more)

The West Local is backing his train clear of the east leg of the wye at the TH&B / Conrail interchange at Waterford. Shortly TH&B 73 and it's train consisting of 8 cars and TH&B van #81 will head ... (more)

The 7 units on this eastbound manifest are a mix between M420's and GP40-2L(W)'s. I suspect it's a power balance move to get excess units back to Toronto. The consist breaks down as follows: CN 25... (more)

One of the hottest trains on the road back then, CN 392 notches up as he accelerates towards Masseys. CN 5062 - CN 2038 - CN 2006 have 96 cars including 51 PFE and Santa Fe reefers on the head end... (more)

NI42 has just crossed the CN Hagersville Sub on it's way towards Buffalo. B&O 4026 - B&O 4290 with 41 cars and caboose 904125 make up todays train.

VIA 84 is departing Brantford after a 3 minute stop for passengers. VIA 6205 - 6129 - 6351 - 6104 - 6120 make up todays train headed for Toronto. 6205 is a former CN RDC-2, 6129 is an ex CP RDC-1... (more)

C&O 5732, one of the Canadian Subdivision assigned units, rests by the C&O roundhouse in St. Thomas. The building to the left in front of the nose of the 5732 is the C&O office where the CTC board... (more)

On our way to Binghamton we did a side trip in to catch the Genesee & Wyoming Railway in Retsof NY. Along the way I caught this gem that had obviously seen better days. This unit was later used as... (more)

After arriving at Waterford the "West Local" set over their van TH&B 81 and are backing down to pick up 4 loaded gons of scrap steel that had been set off by Conrail WQST2. Note the engineer leani... (more)

VIA 73 has just passed VIA 84 at Brant Jct. and is just a couple of minutes from it's station stop at Brantford. VIA 84's 4 Budd cars consist of 6210 - 6120 - 6000 - 6109 while VIA 73 has VIA 6760... (more)