Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » David Young http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:44:54 +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 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:22:47 +0000 David Young
Elgin County Rail Museum's restored L&PS Car 14 is right back where she belongs. A rare mileage charter involving the Port Stanley Terminal Railway and the Museum came together beautifully with three runs taking part over the day. The runs originated out of the London & Port Stanley replica staiton in downtown St. Thomas. The morning run to Port Stanley was a sold out success, the second run for all volunteers involved ran from as far as Whytes and return while a third and final trip ran Port Stanley in the afternoon sold out as well. It brought out the cameras as well.<br> Pushed by Port Stanley Terminal Railway's "Winnie", LPS 14 rolls into the replica station downtown St Thomas with rp.ca's contributers <a href="https://www.railpictures.ca/author/kylestefanovic">Kyle Stefanovic's</a> son framing up the old streetcar. A shame this stretch of rail which was relaid only sees use a handful of times a year. It is great seeing the Port Stanley Terminal and Elgin County Museum jointly operate within the city and I for one, wish they could find a formula which would see more frequent operations within the city limits.
Name: David Young
Railway: London and Port St…
Date: 05/24/2025
Location: St Thomas
Province: Ontario
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A follow up to <a href="https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=84">my one of my earliest uploads.</a> Around 2010-11 timeline CP was contracted to haul windmill towers and components from southern Ontario (Windsor, if memory serves correct?) to Alberta. This days edition was symbolled "785" and had a one of two type loco for the railroad along for the ride. The crew is roughly 10 miles into their trip over the Nipigon Sub about to hit the switch pionts of Selim West as the blue hour is setting in. CP 5912 West with sister SD40-2 6079 sandwiches the testbed Genset 3GS21B-DE 2101 sandwiched admist the trio. A decade and a half later, the siding at Selim has been extended west to a capacity of roughly 14,000', up from the previous capacity of roughly 8140'.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/22/2010
Location: Schreiber
Province: Ontario
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From up in the air, you get to appreciate how vast the geography of northwestern Ontario. West of Thunder Bay, somewhere between Upsala and English River is the siding location named Sheba. Lots of muskeg and mosquitos! From up in the air we see train 420 down for a meet with 119, flying by on the main.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/28/2021
Location: District of Thunde…
Province: Ontario
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Returning from "The Hole" one of SOR's jobs returns to Stuart Street with a pair of former CN SW1200RS'. The power has uncoupled from their haul and retreat to the yard, running under the branches over hanging the yard lead. A crew member can be seen in the distance on the cars waiting for the go ahead to release the hand brake and drop their pull into the yard, saving time and a run around move. Once the cars have cleared the engines the crew will begin switching out the yard.
Name: David Young
Railway: Southern Ontario R…
Date: 06/25/2006
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
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Having yarded their train in New Yard, the Schreiber crew of Toronto to Thunder Bay freight 221 snakes across the East End crossover for the shops with an all EMD lash up led by "Pulling for the United Way" CP 9159. Sister SD9043MAC 9116 trails with a pair of SD40-2's.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/29/2011
Location: Thunder Bay
Province: Ontario
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I title this one <b>The Man and the Monster.</b> A railfan stands his ground at Mapleton Line as the steel beast flinging snow from the right of way closes in at track speed. Truly one of the most dramatic scenes I've ever captured. Plows are fun to capture and some of the best frames are captured from a distance, magnifying the brilliance and sheer power of a pair of 1950 era diesels propelling a century old wedge plow through a snow drift.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 01/26/2026
Location: St Thomas
Province: Ontario
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Part of CP's 125th Anniversary celebration of the driving of the final spike, CP's Royal Canadian Pacific made runs over the Nipigon and Heron Bay Subdivisions during the week of July 12th, 2010. On July 12th Thunder Bay employees and their family were given the opportunity to ride from Thunder Bay to Hurkett and return. The trip to Hurkett was rather uneventful and I was able to peak out the vestibule of one of the coaches to catch the power in the midst of running around the train, heading west down the siding. The ride home would be extended as the hot box just outside Hurkett and coming into Thunder Bay would be tripped for false hot box warnings caused by what I recall was an exhaust which vented down towards the track. We were delayed for quite a while around Mackenzie as we had to await GM approval to proceed into Thunder Bay.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/12/2010
Location: Hurkett
Province: Ontario
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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
3 Comments | 19 Favourites
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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<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
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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
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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
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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
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<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
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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
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