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About Ben Barker

I am an Ontario based railfan that spends the majority of the time on the CP Galt & CN Dundas subdivisions

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Number of images: 6
Total gold: 69
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Being the first time one of the new CSX heritage units had entered Canada most people along the Windsor, Galt and Belleville subdivisions were planning to catch and document them however somebody in Oshawa had other ideas, deciding to dump a bunch of black paint on the nose and side of the unit while it was sitting in a siding overnight.

Name:	Ben Barker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/04/2024
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

Well, I guess we can add 731 to the ID list. Everything is changing so fast I don’t even know if there’s a point in remembering the new ID’s at this point.

Name:	Ben Barker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/18/2024
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

For the first time that I can recall or at least for the past couple decades not only a former Illinois Central unit but an old Illinois Central SD40-3 lead a hotshot CN intermodal (122) into Canada. Quite the combination of events were needed to get to this point, first the original leader of 122 had mechanical issues and was determined to be not a viable leader and the second unit wasn’t able to replace it because it lacked the necessary PTC to run in Canada which led to the Americans grabbing what I’m guessing to be the only other viable unit to lead the train out of the states and into Canada which just happens to be IC 6250.

Most Ontario railfans have caught hundreds if not thousands of trains between them but there’s always those few that remain fresh in the memory of the people that saw it, and even fewer are the trains that the entire community remembers and talks about for years after the event and I’d say it’s safe to say this train falls under both of those categories.

Name:	Ben Barker
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/16/2024
Location:	Woodstock
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

The difference one year can make. With the very noticeable lack of snow so far this year, I decided to go through the archives to see what conditions were like at the same point for the past couple years. I had almost completely forgotten about this train, as nice as the dual NS leaders as well as a KCS DPU are the most shocking fact is that this was taken on Boxing Day of 2022 with a heavy layer of snow on the ground and what at the time seemed like common blizzards in the air and yet if you move forward exactly a year there’s no snow to speak of no blizzards or flurries and it’s 8° on Boxing Day. So here’s to hoping January will finally provide the gift of interesting and unique snow shot opportunities.

Name:	Ben Barker
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	12/26/2022
Location:	Paris
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

Well, I guess it’s that time of year again, I still don’t fully believe January was almost a year ago but here we are. If only we had the same weather for Christmas that we did last year but I’ll take what I can get. Usually for Christmas I just go out and get the CP holiday train which I did, but the opportunity to catch the Waterloo central Christmas train led by an Ex CN GMD-1 was an opportunity that I just couldn’t turn down. I hope everybody had a good Christmas and everybody has a safe and fun New Year’s. Here’s to hoping 2024 will be full of great memories and fun catches.

Name:	Ben Barker
Railway:	Waterloo Central
Date:	12/16/2023
Location:	Waterloo
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 8 Favourites

Even with the recent rain there is still looming smoke over most of southern Ontario from the wild fires up north leading to a very unique situation for photography, but as with most things the railway doesn't seem to be paying that much to it as a textbook 528 lead by CP 8915 rolls through Galt on its way to Albany NY.

Name:	Ben Barker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/27/23
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 8 Favourites

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