Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » David Young http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Wed, 21 Dec 2022 14:54:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Images by david-young http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:37:06 +0000 David Young
Such an anomalous meet. VIA 85 takes the siding at Rockcut while GEXR X432 holds the main with leased CN SD40-2W's 5277-5244 and HLCX SD40M-3 6061.
Name: David Young
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 11/27/2009
Location: Rockwood
Province: Ontario
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A large southbound freight rumbles past the historic station and under the old ABS cantilver signal bridge in downtown Temagami. Once a staple landmark, the old signal bridge finally came down in 2024 and the crossing got a face lift as well, outfitted with gates.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 10/05/2010
Location: Temagami
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 15 Favourites
It's been sometime since CN has shown it's face in daylight in St Thomas until recently. What I can only guess is CN 583, is seen crossing the Kettle Creek departing north for London with traffic ex OSR, GIO and further back in the train, truck frames ex Formet. Part of the headend consist is OSR's former RS18u 182- the future CFS 1801. On Friday, OSR brought the unit down from Salford but had sluffed it in the yard near Formet. Earlier on this day (Sunday) OSR had run an extra to town and part of their chores were to deliver their former unit to the CN for forwarding to the Chemin de fer Sartigan. The Quebec short line operates a section of the former Quebec Central Railway and utilizes MLW locomotives- notably the former BC Rail M420's that OSR owned for a time. 182 is reportedly the first of six to head to Scott, QC.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/01/2026
Location: St. Thomas
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 27 Favourites
The first train since Christmas arrives in Tillsonburg with an odd looking pair of bedfellows leading the charge. Not known for frequenting the TBurg- OSR 1401, battered in snow bares evidence of battling the snow drifts left behind from the storm the week prior. Seen arriving into town from the new look CASO bridge this shot has opened up dramatically from years past. Too bad the old tell-tail didn't survive the make-over.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 01/06/2026
Location: Tillsonburg
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 21 Favourites
Power from the grain pool mingle amonst the equipment that make up the Thunder Bay auxillary near Thunder Bay's East End, one March evening.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/18/2008
Location: Thunder Bay
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 23 Favourites
An eastbound hotshot led by a pair of CEFX leasors arrives at Aylth yard passing the old 12th Street Tower while the hump utilizing SD40M-2's CP 5494- CP 5496. The tower played an integral part, controlling movements at the western entrance to Aylth yard, located south of the Brooks Sub mainline near the east leg of the wye for the McLeod Sub. It would not survive the Hunter cuts following the hostile takeover in by Perishing Square in September 2011. The tower like a number across the system were removed and the RTC jobs moved to an existing desk at the NMC in downtown Calgary. I'm not sure of the date of closure or removal however comparing Google streetview images it was gone by June 2014.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/20/2007
Location: Calgary
Province: Alberta
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The snow is falling and the F's have emerged from their seasonal slumber. Peaking out from the trees, OSR 6508 announces the its presence crossing Thomas Road, bound for Putnam. OSR 1401 started roaming the rails 2 weeks earlier and this day finds OSR 6508 mated up to the set, sandwiching the last GP9 to roll off the production line.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 12/10/2025
Location: Ingersoll
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 20 Favourites
<b>The Evening Wolverton Came Online.</b> The sun sets over the fields west of Cambridge as train 159-27 enters the new siding at Wolverton. The old ABS signals still stand beneath the new signal bridge, turned away and out of service, their purpose now redundant. The original siding will remain as a future storage track for the yard that will built here in the coming years. 159 will be the first of 3 westbounds block-on-block (Ham Turn and 243) to squeeze into the new 10,000 foot siding to meet 5 eastbounds.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/28/2009
Location: Ayr
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 13 Favourites
The Railway City is serenaded with a set of air horns from both short line visitors. OSR 1401 navigates the curve in the "Wabash Transfer" while GIO "2003 West" approaches the diamond on the Cayuga.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 11/28/2025
Location: St. Thomas
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 23 Favourites
Affectionately referred to locally as the "HO HO" Train pulls out of Kenora. The show is complete, a fresh crew is aboard and it's time to continue west over the Keewatin Sub with a stops at Ingolf, ON and Whitemouth, MB for shows before ultimately arriving in Winnipeg for the final show of the day. The crew boarding 119-11 in the background will have a longer trip than usual having to follow the "HO HO" along the Keewatin.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/02/2016
Location: Kenora
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 15 Favourites
Accelerating down the grade leaving the town of Ignace the crew of this prairie bound grain empties doesn't need much power for their pair of "barns" (CP 9022 and CP 9003) to get the train up to the track speed of 50 MPH. Looked like it was a typical frigid winter evening in northwestern Ontario, complete with a set of moose tracks through the snow in the foreground.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 01/09/2011
Location: Ignace
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 14 Favourites
<b>South Pulls North.</b> The first snow is over and now it's a downpour- just an absolutely miserable day. Ontario Southland's St Thomas job is half way home, crossing Crampton Rd outside Mossley with a pair of unusual bedfellows in the form of a former passenger coach and baggage car from the defunct York-Durham Heritage Railway. Disappointing what happened in Uxbridge, but these two pieces have been spared from the scrappers torch and will be painted at OSR's shop in Salford for the VIA Rail Historical Society. Once completed they will head to Mimico to join the organizations other equipment including their FP9u 6539 (the former OSR unit which received the same treatment last year). Sort of interesting capturing a former Ontario Northland coach on the Ontario Southland. Even more interesting having this equipment together as their own train as there was no other traffic ex St Thomas to bring back towards CPKC.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 11/12/2025
Location: Mossley
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 24 Favourites
Cochrane bound- the crew of 313/ 516 leave the Hearst skyline behind. The classic water tower at left and the large crane from the local sawmill operation currently operated by Greenfirst Forest Products are the trademark sights when travelling along the Highway 11 corridor. A pair of SD40-2's power a respectable train of 33 cars out of the lumber town consisting mostly of loaded lumber, along with empty propane cars and traffic on the headend for the Kapuskasing Paper mill.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 08/19/2022
Location: Hearst
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
The OSR high hoods have returned. Seen through a small window in the surrounding trees, the crew aboard the ancient (former SOO) GP7's 383-378 depart CN's Flora Street yard, bound for Ingersoll.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 05/30/2025
Location: St Thomas
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
Athletic Park. A different perspective and not a common photo angle that has been afforded until recently. GIO Rail with their pair of plain jane painted GP38-2's shove 43 tanks towards Southwold yard. Cars coming to GIO have picked up over the past month as the storage season ramps up.
Name: David Young
Railway: GIO Rail
Date: 05/19/2025
Location: St Thomas
Province: Ontario
Comments | 17 Favourites
Pumping air on a pair of rusty rails, in the middle of the bush northeast of Thunder Bay. The last freight rolled off this line on May 16, 2005. This day in March of '08 found CN GP9RM 7218- S-3 slug 268- C44-9W 2666- the power having arrived in Thunder Bay earlier in the morning off train A436, now working a morning extra charge air through 113 stored aluminum CNWX hoppers along this abandoned rail line- stored since 2006. The cars being pulled off the line, destined for the scrapper in Thunder Bay. The line would be ripped up in sections starting in October 2008 with a rail train to haul the rail to various destinations on CN's network.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 03/28/2008
Location: Pass Lake
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
Departing Thunder Bay with the Norwester Mountains as the backdrop, CN A437 enters the OCS at SNS Evans with a pair of cowl units in the form of C40-8M 2409 and an unidentified SD60F trailing. Something off about this edition of this train is the lack of grain empties- likely due to the mid week Canada Day holiday- the train is mostly comprised of boxcar loads of paper from the local Abitibi-Bowater paper mill accompanied by residue tank cars from "Petro-Canada".
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/02/2008
Location: Thunder Bay
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 20 Favourites
The greens are still fresh, bright green and its only the start of June in northwestern Ontario. Spring is still springing as grain empties work Kaministiquia- 23 miles west of Thunder Bay- lifting stored empties out of the south storage track with CP 5959- CP 5971- DH 7303.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/02/2009
Location: Kaministiquia
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
Working their way towards London, the crew of L540 is tasked with opening the Guelph Sub back up after a pair of heavy storms passed thru and no movements closed it over the weekend. The trio of geeps spell a bit of exhaust pushing the spreader and kicking up some snow as they lumber along at lazy speeds not exceeding 15 mph. It appeared as tho the old spreader wasn't 100% with one wing chained. The crew will run into London, wying at Pottersburg and returning towards Stratford, meeting 568 at Kellys.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/19/2025
Location: Belton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 15 Favourites
Blowing up the windrow's, St. Thomas bound after a snow storm.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 02/13/2025
Location: Gladstone
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 19 Favourites
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