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The Agawa Canyon Tour Train departs the Algoma Central Railway's downtown Sault Ste. Marie station to head back to the yard for servicing having completed another daily run to the railway's remote Agawa Canyon Park. While the line is now owned and operated by Canadian National, the Algoma Central Railway name is still used for the passenger service on the line, including the Agawa Canyon Tour Train and the regular local service between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 07/29/2014
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
CN train 360, a Winnipeg to Chicago manifest freight, makes an unusual appearance in southern Ontario having detoured around the Great Lakes via Toronto. Today's power is an extra bonus with a pair of CSX GEVOs trailing the older CN cowl-body GE. The detour has also introduced a peculiarity to the trackside watcher when running on the Toronto-Chicago portion of its re-route: since this Winnipeg-Chicago train is overall and normally an eastbound, it has an eastbound (even) number, but once it's reached Toronto, it's now running westward toward Chicago, thus running in the opposite direction of all of the other even-numbered eastbound trains on this portion of the route.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/05/2014
Location: Sarnia
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 2 Favourites
Hot on the tail of 393, CN 301 rolls into Sarnia with a rather attractive visitor in the form of BNSF 208 in full Santa Fe warbonnet colours behind a brand new CN ES44DC. This train is a re-route due to summer track work on northern Ontario transcontinental line.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/31/2014
Location: Sarnia
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
CN 393 ticks off the last few miles before Sarnia and their call to US Customs to cross the border into Port Huron, Michigan. Looks like the crew forgot to un-dim the headlights and ditchlights after meeting 330 at Wanstead.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/31/2014
Location: Sarnia
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
Just past the Sarnia city limits, CN 330 has just past the end of double track at Mandaumin as it heads east towards Hamilton and the Niagara peninsula with a BC Rail unit in the trailing position. 330's direct counterpart, 331, would also this day have another BC Rail unit in the consist, this time leading.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/31/2014
Location: Sarnia
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
CN 149 breaks the quiet calm of a beautiful spring morning in the village of Kerwood, ON on CN's Strathroy Subdivision. This train has got to be the first intermodal train that I've ever given chase to. I had just headed to the tracks at one of my favourite locations at Waterworks Road in Sarnia, when I heard 149 on the radio. The conversation indicated that they were having issues with their power, with only one of the three units operational, and that they were making about 15 MPH (indeed, I heard the hot-box-detector give a readout of 16 MPH when they crossed it). With no indication of other traffic at that time, and given their slow rate of progress and that I was ultimately headed to the Waterloo area later that day for an operating session at my model railway club, I decided to head east to catch this train, figuring it would be an easy catch on the other side of Wyoming. And so the chase was on... Well, I finally caught up with it on the far side of Watford, and it was not doing 16 MPH... I got in front of it and stopped at Kerwood for this photo. The next detector they hit indicated a speed of 50+ MPH. I guess they got their issues sorted out... Fortunately I was at least rewarded in the chase with a BCOL trailing unit. At School Road siding, they overtook CN 509, which <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14670">I caught in Strathroy.</a>
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/12/2014
Location: Kerwood
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
CN 509 rolls through the town of Strathroy, Ontario with transfer traffic between Sarnia and London yards.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/12/2014
Location: Strathroy
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
NS ES44AC 8091 leads a CN ES44DC, CN 2273, on the point of an extra 396 through the small village of Kerwood, Ontario.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/22/2014
Location: Kerwood
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
CN 631, the northbound Algoma Central regular passenger train from Sault Ste. Marie to Hearst, crosses the always spectacular Montreal River trestle at Montreal Falls. Equally spectacular are the peak fall colours on the hills and in the river valley.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/30/2013
Location: Montreal Falls
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
With all three F40PH locomotives assigned to a full-length Canyon Tour Train for the fall colour season, the regular passenger train to Hearst rates a standard cab CN GP38-2. In a way, this is how this train should be, even if the details are a little off. A typical 1980s consist was an AC GP38-2, steam generator car, baggage and coach. This is essentially the same, but with different colours and an electrical power generator car instead of a steam heater car. For the last couple of years the regular train has left directly from the former ACR yard and shops area at Steelton yard instead of the passenger station downtown. A passenger loading and parking area is established near the yard entrance.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/30/2013
Location: Sault Ste Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
A southbound CN freight rolls across the swing bridge over the canal on the Canadian end of the International Railway Bridge at Sault Ste Marie, ON.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/29/2013
Location: Sault Ste Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10586">A short 9-car CN 571</a> trundles northward out of the desolation of the former Hawk Junction yard. The dirt track leading uphill in the background is the Algoma Central's former Michipicoten subdivision to Wawa and Michipicoten harbour, which was officially abandoned and the tracks lifted in 2000. The titular junction at Hawk Junction was once located just past the single remaining switch at left foreground leading to the south yard, which once commonly received trains of processed iron ore from the branch, but on this day saw only a lonely pulpwood flatcar. The grassy expanse to the right was once the main yard at Hawk Junction, where freight trains were made up and cars sorted. Now most of those tracks are completely ripped out, and the area becoming overgrown with grasses and weeds. (The track that disappears in the long grass in the centre of the image was formerly the ladded track for this part of the yard; you'll note a distinct lack of switchstands and points on this track today.) <br> <br> In it's heydey, Hawk Junction was a division point and the hub of operations on the Algoma Central Railway, seeing two daily regularly scheduled freights plus as required extras between Hawk Junction and Steelton yard in Sault Ste. Marie (in each direction), a daily freight between Hawk Junction and Hearst (again each way) and daily/as required ore trains on the branch to Wawa and Michipicoten Harbour as well as daily passenger service along the line. Today, the yard is barely more than a passing siding and a couple of set-out tracks, and both passenger and freight traffic is down to a thrice-weekly service. That little 9 car local trundling sure is a far cry from what once was.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/14/2013
Location: Hawk Junction
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 9 Favourites
After waiting for the southbound passenger train to pass, CN train 571 pulls forward past Hawk Junction station. After performing some brief switching in order to swap a loaded pulpwood flatcar for an empty, and also set out the trailing SD40-2 which seemed to have some alarm bells ringing, this short thrice-weekly train will continue northward for its ultimate destination of Hearst, ON.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/14/2013
Location: Hawk Junction
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
An already quite late-running VIA train no. 186, the local passenger service between White River and Sudbury, with RDC-1 6105 and rare RDC-4 6250 gets serviced at the fueling pad at Chapleau before resuming its eastbound voyage to Sudbury.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 07/14/2013
Location: Chapleau
Province: Ontario
Comments | 6 Favourites
The daily Ottawa Valley Railway freight train from North Bay arrives at Canadian Pacific's Sudbury yard with RLK 4096 and RMPX 9426 leading. After setting off their inbound train, the crew will lift a pair of CP SD40-2s (5922 and 5932) from the shop area before lifting their outbound traffic and returning to North Bay as train no. 430.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ottawa Valley Rail…
Date: 07/17/2013
Location: Sudbury
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
Canadian Pacific train 119 with grain empties and priority intermodal traffic rolls through Sudbury, Ontario.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/17/2013
Location: Sudbury
Province: Ontario
Comments | 4 Favourites
Ontario Northland SD40-2 1733 in the railway's newest paint scheme heads south out of Englehart with a ballast train.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/17/2013
Location: Englehart
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 4 Favourites
"Work 1733" departs Englehart yard with a maintenance-of-way ballast train. Ontario Northland crews appeared to be doing quite a bit of infrastructure maintenance this summer, with much of the railroad south of Cochrane being covered by foremen's work limits.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/17/2013
Location: Englehart
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
Having obtained clearance, "Work 1733" prepares to deparate south from Englehart yard to dump ballast around Thornloe.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/17/2013
Location: Englehart
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
SD40-2 1735 idles in the morning sunshine on the engine track at Englehart awaiting its next assignment while in the background fellow SD40-2 1733 switches cars in Englehart yard.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/17/2013
Location: Englehart
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
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