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Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » crr200 http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:06:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Images by crr200 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1323 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname#comments Thu, 07 May 2026 12:07:12 +0000 crr200

With the recent unveiling of Ontario Northland's Heritage SD40-2, I went looking for a vintage ONR shot to scan. While there are good memories of 3 day Holiday weekends with a much younger crew from Cleveland, the shots show that we had some real challenging weather. For this one the high-sun hazy sky sort of cooperated but the weather wasn't the only challenge for this shot. We were there early and decided to wait it out away from the car. It was unseasonably warm and humid and the black flies were out in force. You all know that if you let them bother you, it can drive you crazy, and I can remember wishing for any kind of breeze. This is a southbound train almost home, just about where the railroad joins Trout Lake Rd for the rest of the way into North Bay. Power is 2 of the SD40-2's in their as-delivered paint, like the #1730 that was unveiled recently. May 28, 1979.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	5/28/1979
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

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Two back-to-back FP9A's lead the Toronto section of the westbound Canadian through Palgrave on September 4, 1978. For a modern day view of CP F's at this location and how much the area has grown in, see JA's photo of the Canada 150 train <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=30540"> http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=30540 </a>

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/04/1978
Location:	Palgrave
Province:	Ontario

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GP-7 #74 leads a phosphate train through the yard at Port Maitland on February 28, 1982. This would be a pretty routine broadside of a GP-7 without the TH&B lettered crossing sign.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Toronto Hamilton a…
Date:	02/28/1982
Location:	Port Maitland
Province:	Ontario

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TH&B GP-7 #73 and NW-2 #53 share a ride on the Chatham Street turntable on February 28, 1982. Both units wear the road's attractive cream and maroon paint that the first diesels delivered in 1948 wore. #53 was part of that order. The TH&B is one of the few roads to keep a consistent diesel paint scheme for such a long run (1948 - 1987)

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Toronto Hamilton a…
Date:	02/28/1982
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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The power for a unit train bound for the fertilizer plant in Port Maitland leaving the ready track at the Chatham Street roundhouse on February 28, 1982.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Toronto Hamilton a…
Date:	02/28/1982
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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4 TH&B GP-7's with a CP MLW tucked in behind working hard on the final leg of the climb up the Escarpment on February 28, 1982. Thanks to other posts in the database I've learned that this was a unit rock train for a fertilizer plant in Port Maitland. We were counting on the clear skies that were forecast when we left Cleveland in the middle of the night but we saw quite a show in spite of the mid day clouds that caught up with us here at Vinemount.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Toronto Hamilton a…
Date:	02/28/1982
Location:	Vinemount
Province:	Ontario

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The power for a unit train down to Port Maitland sits on the ready track at the Chatham Street roundhouse on the morning of February 28, 1982. We'd be a little disappointed that they spoiled the solid lash-up with a trailing CP MLW but a bigger disappointment was that the clera skies didn't hold up long enough.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Toronto Hamilton a…
Date:	02/28/1982
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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2 SD40's and 2 MLW's lead CP train #902 through the rolling hills around Bolton on May 28, 1978.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/28/1978
Location:	Bolton
Province:	Ontario

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Toronto Union Station as it looked from the CN Tower in December 1978. I need to make a trip to see just how shocking the difference is now. The nose of the westbound Canadian is poking out of the train shed on the 2nd track from the right.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	12/16/1978
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

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Morning fog is just burning off in the Don Valley as 2 SW1200RS's lead a local freight under Lawrence Ave. We were there waiting for the ONR train coming in and got a pleasant surprise when this freight rolled through first.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/02/1978
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 24 Favourites

2 RS18m's lead a westbound into Bayview Junction on a muggy July afternoon. This was the Thursday of the Toronto NRHS Convention that featured a 6060 trip to Niagara Falls.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	07/24/1980
Location:	Bayview Jct
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 27 Favourites

VIA used the higher speed Turbos for a few trains a day between Montreal and Toronto in 1978. Here we see a going away view of the morning westbound almost at the end of it's trip near the Rouge River crossing west of Pickering. It was a fun ride to snag a seat in the bubble and watch the speedometer push toward 100 mph for the just over 4 hour trip. The bubble seats were usually higher priced reserve seats but on the morning runs before the alcohol could be served, they were open seating so that's where I headed. On one Saturday mornign trip to Montreal, a group of older ladies (were then, would be young partyers now) had the same plan, except they were prepared for Ontario's liquor laws and started passing around a flask.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	05/28/1978
Location:	Pickering
Province:	Ontario

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VIA used the higher speed Turbos for a few trains a day between Montreal and Toronto in 1978. Here we see a westbound almost at the end of it's trip near the Rouge River crossing west of Pickering. It was a fun ride to snag a seat in the bubble and watch the speedometer push toward 100 mph for the just over 4 hour trip.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	05/28/1978
Location:	Pickering
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 27 Favourites

CP's classic tail car bringing up the rear of the Canadian on it's final leg into Toronto on a beautiful labor Day weekend Monday (US) in 1978.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/04/1978
Location:	Bolton
Province:	Ontario

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CP FP7 #4069 leads GP9 8512 and the 10 cars of the Toronto section of The Canadian through the rolling landscape near Bolton, ON on 9/4/1978

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/04/1978
Location:	Bolton
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 28 Favourites

I submitted a picture last night of CP SW8 #6703 in the Multimark "Pac-man" paint scheme switching the ferry slip in Windsor in March 1978. I've probably been to Windsor 3 times to take train pictures over 50 years and on 2 of those that were 11 years apart I found the same SW8 at the ferry slip. Here in June 1967, it's in the maroon and gray but still providing the same service. That makes me wonder if this was just railroad habit, a rare coincidence, or if there was some special modification done on it.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/1967
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

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CP SW8 works the ferry slip in Windsor along the icy Detroit River on March 5, 1978.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/05/1978
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

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On a frigid January 3rd, 1981 afternoon, CN 4016 leading a VIA westbound making a station stop at Woodstock, ON

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	01/03/1981
Location:	Woodstock
Province:	Ontario

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On March 5, 1978, CP SW8 #6703 is loading the N&W barge Windsor at the ferry slip in Windsor, Ont. Notice that all of the cars are excess height auto racks. The ferry service was only used for cars that couldn’t fit through the tunnel. When the larger tunnel was completed in 1994, the ferry service was stopped. The yard and slip are now a park. The barge Windsor was owned by the N&W and was originally built in Toledo in 1930 as a steam ferry for the Wabash. It was converted to a barge by the N&W in 1969. Internet reports show it being scrapped at Port Colborne in 2007.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/05/1978
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

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A CP westbound coal train in the rugged lower Fraser Valley near Hell's Gate.

Name:	Dave Beach
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	8/30/1998
Location:	Spuzzum
Province:	British Columbia

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