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"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
Ontario Northland SD75i 2103 along with SD40-2 1735 and SD75i 2104 crawl through a slow order at Kirkland Lake, Ontario with a rather sizeable train 211 consisting of mostly copper concentrates and empty acid tankcars bound for the smelter at Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. <br><br>The trailing unit, ONT 2104, was lifted off of the same day's <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10543">train no. 308</a> at the siding at Jardin. 308's left behind southbound traffic would be lifted later that evening by when this train returns from Noranda as no. 512 for Englehart.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/16/2013
Location: Kirkland Lake
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
Ontario Northland SD40-2 1733 switches a string of empty flatcars to the wye track at Englehart, where a large tie loading area has been set up.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/17/2013
Location: Englehart
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
ONT 2104 south, train 308 from Kidd near Timmins, charges through Matheson with a long string of gondolas in copper concentrate service.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/16/2013
Location: Matheson
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
Ontario Northland GP38-2s 1809 and 1804 power the northbound Cochrane to Moosonee Polar Bear Express past Milepost 5.0 of the Island Falls subdivision. This train is notable for being the last operating mixed train (handling freight and passengers) in Ontario. <br><br> The full consist of this day's Polar Bear Express was as follows:<br> ONT 1809 (GP38-2)<br> ONT 1804 (GP38-2)<br> ONT 100504 (Vehicle flatcar)<br> ONT 100506 (Vehicle flatcar)<br> ONT 100502 (Vehicle flatcar)<br> ONT 7776 (Boxcar)<br> ONT 855 (Coach)<br> ONT 900 "Otter Rapids" (Dome Coach)<br> ONT 851 (Coach)<br> ONT 604 (Coach)<br> ONT 601 (Coach)<br> ONT 701 (Cafe Car)<br> ONT 603 (Coach)<br> ONT 413 (Baggage)<br> ONT 205 (Generator)<br> ONT 2556 (Boxcar)<br> ONT 7737 (Boxcar)<br> ONT 7738 (Boxcar)<br> <br> The flatcars handled private vehicles being transported to Moosonee by passengers, and the various boxcars handled mail and express and also often handle canoes, ATVs, and in the winter, snowmobiles. Other regular freight to Moosonee is handled in a separate freight train.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/16/2013
Location: Cochrane
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
One for the subway fans. On the morning I left Cochrane, I saw two of these brand new TTC subway cars from Bombardier at a truck stop on the south end of town. Presumably these cars took the much longer route through Cochrane due to the very hilly and twisty highway 17 between Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa probably not being able to handle loads of this size.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Toronto Transit Co…
Date: 07/16/2013
Location: Cochrane
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
The Agawa Canyon Tour unloads passengers at the Algoma Central Railway station in Sault Ste. Marie after completing another run to Agawa Canyon park. The handsome red sandstone structure beyond the far end of the train is the original Algoma Central Railway station and office building. No longer used by the railway, this structure is now a bank.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 07/13/2013
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
CN F40PH 105 basks in the late afternoon sun after returning to Sault Ste Marie with the Agawa Canyon Tour Train. (Operating with engines at each end in a push-pull configuration, 105 would have actually brought up the rear of the southbound train.) If you take a look at the windshield of the locomotive, note the forward facing camera just inside the cab. Video from the camera in the lead unit is relayed to monitor screens inside the upgraded passenger coaches used on the tour train.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 07/13/2013
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
CN SD70M-2 brings in the daily northbound freight train from the United States across the ancient swing bridge over the historic Canadian ship lock canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Built in the 1890s to allow ship traffic on the lakes to pass between Lake Superior and Lake Huron, this lock now only handles smaller recreational traffic, with today's modern massive lake freighters using the newer, larger locks on the American side of the river at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/12/2013
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
An almost perfectly matched set of wide-nose Huron Central GP40-2s (the third unit is a GP40-2L with the taller frame) switches cars at the Huron Central yard in Sault Ste. Marie.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Huron Central Rail…
Date: 07/13/2013
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 2 Favourites
A matched trio of Huron Central units switch out a cut of steel loads from Algoma Steel that were just brought over from the CN interchange.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Huron Central Rail…
Date: 07/13/2013
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
While GP38-2 1801 switches local cars at left, train 213 from Englehart has just arrived with SD75i 2102. After wying the engine, the 2102 will leave again for Englehart on train 414.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/15/2013
Location: Cochrane
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
Ontario Northland Railway SD75i 2102 arrives in Cochrane off train no. 213 from Englehart. After turning the power on the wye and lifting southbound traffic this unit will almost immediately depart again on train 414 back to Englehart.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/15/2013
Location: Cochrane
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
CN F40PH 105 leads an 8-car 633, the northbound Algoma Central Railway Agawa Canyon Tour Train crosses the Bellevue Trestle enroute to Agawa Canyon Park. CN 104 is bringing up the rear of the train in a push-pull configuration so that no runaround move needs to be made at Canyon.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 07/13/2013
Location: Bellevue
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
Ontario Northland Railways's modern Polar Bear Express logo, as seen on coach ONT 855.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/16/2013
Location: Cochrane
Province: Ontario
Comments | Favourites
The bold new logo for the Algoma Central Railway's (now part of CN) Agawa Canyon Tour Train, as seen on coach AC 5705 "Spruce Lake". (All of the Algoma Central's "new" ex-Ski Train, ex-VIA/CN "Tempo" coaches are named after local lakes and rivers.)
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 07/13/2013
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | Favourites
The Agawa Canyon Tour Train logo on the nose notwithstanding, CN F40PH 106 leads train 632, the regular thrice-weekly Hearst-Sault Ste. Marie passenger train at Hawk Junction. This train and the aforementioned tour train are the last vestiges of the Algoma Central name, and is one of the last local passenger trains in the country not operated by VIA Rail.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 07/14/2013
Location: Hawk Junction
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 7 Favourites
CN F40PH 106 in the handsome new Agawa Canyon Tour Train livery heads CN train 632, the regular thrice-weekly passenger train from Hearst to Sault Ste. Marie. Running over an hour late into Hawk Junction, the train stops briefly to load a trio of canoers and their gear before continuing south.
Name: Chris van der Heide
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 07/14/2013
Location: Hawk Junction
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 1 Favourites
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