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The inbound train now under control of the yard crew, southbound no. 214's inbound mainline crew detrains at the end of their run at North Bay. The yard crew will yard the train and switch inbound tonnage to the CN transfer yard.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 08/01/2014
Location: North Bay
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
Southbound train no. 214 arrives at North Bay Yard, and the yard crew is ready to hop on board and take over the train from the inbound road crew who will disembark as the train slowly rolls across the grade crossing at the north side of the shops.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 08/01/2014
Location: North Bay
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
Ontario Northland's daily Englehart to North Bay freight train no. 214 round the curve along the shore of Cobalt lake at the former ONR Cobalt station.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 08/01/2014
Location: Cobalt
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
South Simcoe Railway's ex-CP 4-4-0 steam engine 136, built in 1883 for Canadian Pacific by Rogers Locomotive Co., simmers on the main track while passengers for the last excursion run of the day wait to board at Tottenham for the 45 minute out and back run.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Tourist
Date: 08/03/2014
Location: Tottenham
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
The southbound Agawa Canyon Tour Train, with CN GP9Rm 4110 on the southbound head end, approaches mile 10 just north of the former location of Odena siding on the former Algoma Central Railway.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 07/29/2014
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
The southbound Agawa Canyon Tour Train crosses Second Line as it returns to Sault Ste. Marie at the end of another run. The train is now within the yard limits and will soon be passing the sprawling Steelton yards of the former Algoma Central Railway and the Algoma Steel Company before arriving at the downtown station.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 07/29/2014
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
Northbound Canadian Pacific train 421 rolls across the massive trestle above the Parry Sound harbour.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/02/2014
Location: Parry Sound
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
Huron Central RM-1 road slug 802, GP40-3 3802 and GP40-2(W) 3010 work the yard at Sault Ste. Marie building the train that will depart later in the afternoon for Sudbury.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Huron Central Rail…
Date: 07/30/2014
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 4 Favourites
A trio of Huron Central units headed by RM-1 road slug HCRY 802 and its mother unit, GP40-3 HCRY 3802, switch a cut of cars in the Sault Ste. Marie yard as the crew builds what will be this afternoon's train to Sudbury.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Huron Central Rail…
Date: 07/30/2014
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
<p>The Agawa Canyon Tour Train, with CN GP9Rm 4110 on the south end, rests at Agawa Canyon Park while the passengers enjoy the scenery at the remote wilderness location of the park. All too soon it's time to head south again. <p>The small car parked on the house track to the left of the train is the railway's "camp car", which can be rented out for overnight stays, like an RV on rails.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 07/28/2014
Location: Agawa Canyon
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
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 | 2 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 | 6 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 | 2 Favourites
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