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Having sat at the top of the hill near Georgetown for four eastbounds, CN 397 is finally on the move with an interesting consist of CN SD70M2 8023, UP SD70M 4063, and BNSF ES44AC 6192. The BNSF unit was the leader on yesterday's 396 with the UP unit in fourth position. En route, they met another BNSF leader and will soon meet 148 with an NS unit trailing. While not the "FPON" days of years gone by, we're still getting some interesting consists in 2022!

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	25/6/2022
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 9 Favourites

August the 1st, beginning of a new crop year...and both CN and CP are moving grain empties west for reloading. In the foreground, a pair of SD40s (5168 and 5172) have a colourful consist of government-owned cover hoppers in tow as they approach West Tower where CN's Rivers and Gladstone subs cross the CP Carberry sub 0.8 miles to the west. In the background, a similar CP train behind SD40-2 5723 and GP35 5021 waits its turn at the diamond. (Photo taken from the Provincial Road 240 bridge.)

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	8/1/1987
Location:	Portage la Prairie
Province:	Manitoba

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

I never tired of shooting VIA's passenger trains in downtown Winnipeg, especially when they were graced by CN's classy F7Au locomotives. Here we have the 9151 and an unrecorded sister (with an SGU) pausing on the bridge over the Assiniboine River before backing into the station to couple to their train. For a more recent view of the same location, see image 48728 (http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=48728).

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	9/28/1980
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

GMD-1s 1008 and 1050 lead an eastbound away from Portage la Prairie and towards Winnipeg's Symington Yard. By this time, branch lines requiring light weight power were becoming fewer and fewer as the Prairie Branch Line Rehabilitation Program (implementing the recommendations of the 1977 Hall Commission on Grain Handling and Transportation for branch line rationalization) was well under way. In a few days, on August 1st, the Western Grain Transportation Act will take effect, effectively abolishing "the Crow" rate and ramping up changes to the handling of Canadian grain. At the time of the photo, CN had already converted 12 GMD-1s to B-B trucks and would eventually convert 46 of 83 A1a-A1A units (including the 1050 and former NAR GMD-1s) to that configuration. Lead unit 1008 would be re-manufactured as the 1602 in 1988 and re-trucked to B-B unit 1432 in 1999.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	7/28/1984
Location:	Portage
Province:	Manitoba

Comments | 18 Favourites

With a summer sized consist, VIA train 92 behind leased CN units nears its final destination of Winnipeg Union Station. Although a GP9 would occasionally substitute, a pair of F7Au locomotives were standard power on this tri-weekly train along with a steam generator unit from roughly 1972 until spring 1984. (I've been told that GMD-1s powered the train before that.) According to VIA Rail 1981 consist information in my collection, the summer train (June-September) ran with a baggage/crew sleeper, an unreserved coach, a cafe-coach-lounge, another coach, a diner, a 4-8-4 sleeper, a 10-5 sleeper, and a "Cape" lounge. The normal "winter" consist had a two "steam gennies", a 9600 series baggage car, the two coaches, a diner-lounge, and one sleeper. Note also the three refrigerator cars returning to Winnipeg after carrying groceries to northern Manitoba communities and a former CP diner substituting for the normal former CN car.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	7/12/1980
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

Comments | 18 Favourites

Ten miles to go! VIA train No. 92 is about to cross under the Perimeter Highway as it enters the City of Winnipeg, passing the elevator which was located at mile 10.9 of the Rivers sub. After years of running with CN F7Au locomotives, VIA stopped using leased CN engines on this train and replaced them with remanufactured FP9ARM units in the spring of 1984.Units 6300-6304 were not equipped with steam generators, lightening them to 247,000 lbs (rather than the 260,000 lbs of units 6305-6314). VIA 6302 (former VIA/CN 6533) and 6304 (ex-6509) are "back-to-back", unlike later years when the units ran "elephant style".

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	7/30/1987
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

2 Comments | 16 Favourites

Less than 4 hours after arriving, VIA Rail has turned and serviced the equipment and train 693 begins its almost 2 day journey back to Churchill (about 3 hours late). Today's train is powered by F40PH-2D units 6457 and 6441, with baggage car 8601, coaches 8123, 8124, and 8104, Skyline 8506 and sleeper Chateau Marquette. (The train is crossing the Assiniboine River, immediately south of the station (timetable West)--photo taken from the Main Street bridge.(

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	8/17/2021
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

Comments | 5 Favourites

CN 554 backs across the Chartwell Road crossing while doubling its train prior to departure with 20 cars of general freight and 47 autoracks. Power today is GTW GP40-2 6420 (originally a DT&I unit) and CN GP38-2 4906 (the former GMTX 2273, previously LLPX 2244, originally built for the Long Island Railroad in 1976 as its 264).
CN 554 is normally ordered for 12:00 noon and typically departs about 90 minutes later.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	5/7/2022
Location:	Oakville
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

Normally assigned to passenger trains to Thompson and/or Churchill, today two of the F7Au locomotives based in Winnipeg have drawn a work train assignment, probably for the Prairie Branchline Rehabilitation program that was going on at the time (note the side-dump cars). On their way back to Symington, these units are passing the VIA station and CN's Prairie Region offices. In the background, you can see buildings from the East Yard which at one time hosted extensive team track and express facilities and still had VIA's coach in the early 1980s. Today, the area east of the Station is The Forks market.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	7/31/1981
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

1 Comments | 17 Favourites

When I lived in Winnipeg, a favourite train-watching activity was to follow CN's Emerson turn south to the interchange with Burlington Northern and Soo Line in Noyes, Minnesota. Provincial highway 75 closely follows the Letellier sub and train speeds allowed one to get several photos in each direction. Normally, you could also catch CP's train interchanging with the BN and SOO (in the era before CP took over the SOO) and until about 1983, Burlington Northern Manitoba would also run their own train--five trains from five railroads for an hour our so in the village of Noyes!

This is the last shot of the day from one of those trips--GMD1s 1028 and 1054 bringing 16 cars and the van home...almost 40 years ago, now.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	3/27/1983
Location:	Ste. Agathe
Province:	Manitoba

3 Comments | 15 Favourites

Today, the CN train interchanging with the New England Central at St. Albans, Vermont runs with CN power (or whatever is around Taschereau Yard). But for a few years after the Central Vermont was sold, CN provided the crews and NECR provided the power for the Montreal-St. Albans turn. Here we see NECR 6526 (former CSX/B&O GP40), 9530 and 9539 (former IC/GM&O GP38s) leading the train through St-Lambert on a warm August evening. Hard to believe that almost 25 years have passed since this shot was taken...

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	8/8/1997
Location:	St-Lambert
Province:	Quebec

3 Comments | 13 Favourites

"Steeltown". "The Hammer". For railroaders, these names bring to mind heavy, slow drags with cars of steel (gondolas, coil cars, flats) and other industrial cargo. Here we see 0800 Hamilton Yard assignment heading towards "the hole" (N&NW spur) with a sizable number of gons. Yesterday when I saw this job, they returned to Stuart Street with something like 40 cars and 5600 tons--no wonder they use two or three unit sets of old road power such as GP38-2 4705 (ex 5505)and 7241 (rebuilt for yard service from GP9 4311)! To see the same location in 1975, http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47735 .

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1/16/2022
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

8 Comments | 14 Favourites

With class unit 7000 on the point, a yard assignment moves along the North Track of the Grimsby sub headed into "the hole" to serve industrial customers. At the time, most yard engines in Hamilton were MLW S4s supplemented by a couple of GM units assigned to "out posts" such as Brantford and Oakville. By the mid-1980s, SW9 and SW1200 locomotives would hold down most assignments (and SW1200RS units into the mid-1990s).

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	12/11/1975
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

The Bay Street bridge in Hamilton has long been a favourite location for photographers wanting to catch rail action in Hamilton. While a lot of the track configuration is similar to years past, gone are the yard office and express facilities constructed in the early 1960s, the engine servicing and container/piggyback facilities, as well as the industries north of the CN yard. Taking their place are a Cargo-flo facility, new buildings for Hamilton-based staff, a new CTC controlled location (Stuart), and a new commuter rail station with customer parking (West Harbour--between the site of the Great Western/Grand Trunk stations and 1930s CN James Street North station). On a bitterly cold winter's day, we see GO Transit MP40-PH-3C 653 ready to lead the hourly train to Toronto Union Station and Oshawa while CN ET44AC 3197 and ES44AC 3945 (a former CREX bought by CN in 2021) on train 421 prepare to leave Hamilton for Port Robinson after a crew change (with ES44AC 3844 as DPU). The GP38-2s at the right, 4705 and 4726, have just been set off by 421 which also lifted the parts cars on the head end of the train.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1/15/2022
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 9 Favourites

St-Henri was a favourite location of mine in the mid-late 1980s. Close to my downtown apartments, one could catch VIA's Toronto and Ottawa trains here (including "The Canadian" which ran with a Skyline dome until 1987, if I recall correctly); CN through freights to and from the Maritimes which often had MLW power; CN freights to St. Albans (CV)/Rouses Point (D&H)/Island Pond (Grand Trunk New England)/Massena (Conrail); and transfers with RS18s and/or GP9s to CN points on the South Shore and around Pointe St. Charles. Here we see VIA train No. 32 from Ottawa whose FPA4 6775 is assisted by leased CN GP40-2LW 9431. VIA's F40PH-2s will start arriving in late 1986, ending CN power leases to improve winter service reliability.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	2/9/1986
Location:	Montreal
Province:	Quebec

Comments | 12 Favourites

It now seems hard to believe that at one time five railways competed for Niagara Frontier-Michigan/midwest U.S. traffic through southern Ontario over multiple routes. Former Conrail C40-8W 8373 trails C40-9W 9554 in what truly is a "going away photo" of the last NS 328 (as this is posted, 15 years ago today).

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Norfolk Southern
Date:	12/30/2006
Location:	Ingersoll
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 12 Favourites

On a day fitting the occasion, NS train 328 crosses southern Ontario for the last time. Units 9554 and 8373 pass the Ingersoll station, exercising trackage rights over Grand Trunk lines dating from March 1898. 15 years ago, CN had won the contract for Talbotville Ford traffic but it was a short lived victory--that plant closed in September 2011. The Ingersoll station itself (dating from the late 1880s) was demolished on December 7, 2020.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Norfolk Southern
Date:	12/30/2006
Location:	Ingersoll
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 10 Favourites

Sometimes you find a gem online...Here we have TH&B GP9s 402 and 403 riding the turntable at the CPR John Street roundhouse in Toronto in the summer of 1958. I'm a little puzzled about this one--my understanding is that run-through power on the Toronto-Buffalo trains ceased after the TH&B and NYC dieselized in 1954 but CP continued to use steam between Toronto and Hamilton. However, this photo and others show that TH&B power at least handled passenger trains over the Oakville sub. Any insights out there? (Thanks to Steve Host for his help cleaning this one up.)

Name:	John Eull collectio…
Railway:	Toronto Hamilton a…
Date:	7/ /1958
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

Thirty years ago, the Boxing Day edition of Ontario Northland train No. 121 rolls through King City on its way from Toronto to Cochrane. This was the last winter for this routing...If I recall correctly, by February 1992 the TEE equipment had been replaced by rebuilt GO Transit cars and the train moved to the Bala sub. VIA continued to operate its tri-weekly Canadian through here until September 1996; Metrolinx bought its portion of the Newmarket sub in December 2009 (including through King City).

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	12/26/1991
Location:	King City
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

For years, the Napierville Junction's train originated in Rouses Point, NY and ran to Montreal with a couple of MLW built RS2 units. After they were retired, the D&H would assign whatever they had laying over in Rouses Point. After the D&H was integrated into Guilford in the early 1980s, this could include Maine Central and Boston & Maine units--such as B&M GP40-2s 304 and 308, as well as GP39-2 350 (originally built for the D&H). Guilford cast the D&H into bankruptcy in 1988 and by 1991 it was integrated into CP Rail System and run-through operations became the norm.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Delaware and Hudso…
Date:	06/2/1986
Location:	LaSalle
Province:	Quebec

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

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