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Here is an intriguing photo from the 1960s. Although there is no information on this undated slide, it appears to show the "Northland" southbound at Cochrane with an unusually large train for the sparsely populated area. According to a 1962 timetable in my collection, No. 50 originated on CN at Hearst, departing at 2:30 PM and arriving at Cochrane at 6:00 PM before continuing south over the Ontario Northland at 6:30 PM.  CN took the train over again at North Bay for the trip to Toronto (via the Newmarket sub to Washago and the Bala sub for the rest of the trip) arriving at 8:00 AM daily except Sunday. (In 1962, a second train--No. 46--ran Timmins and North Bay to Toronto using CN's Newmarket sub south of Washago. By 1967, there was only one train south of North Bay and train service had been cut back to Kapuskasing with a bus to Hearst and connecting ONR trains between Timmins and Porquis.) Equipment notes in the October 28, 1962 public timetable state: "Trains 49-50-Toronto-North Bay-Timmins-Noranda-Cochrane-Kapuskasing-Hearst. Cafe Car-Toronto-North Bay. Cafe Lounge-Englehart-Hearst. Sleepers: Cars 4900, 5300 8-Sec., 2 Cpt., 4 D. R.-Toronto-Noranda. (except Saturday). 4901, 5001 8-Sec., 4 D.B.R., Toronto-Hearst. (Except Saturday). 4902, 5002 4-Sec., 8 Duplex Rmtte., 4 D.B.R.-Toronto-Timmins. (except Saturday)."
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Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 1960s
Location: Cochrane
Province: Ontario
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On January 1, 1981 Canadian National assumed sole ownership of the Northern Alberta Railways which previously had been jointly owned with Canadian Pacific. This slide, processed in January 1981, shows GP9s 206, 211, and 205 ready to head north from Dunvegan yard. These units would be renumbered into CN's 4600 series later in 1981.
Name: unknown, John Eull …
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 1/ /1981
Location: Edmonton
Province: Alberta
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With plenty of power for a 15 car train and 50 mph track, this freight should make good time on its eastward trip across the Prairie North Line (PNL). It is likely No. 884 which was scheduled to leave St. Paul Jct (Edmonton) at 0805 daily except Sunday in the early 1970s according to an employee time table in my collection. The same document shows a meet with Railiner No. 691 at Lavoy (one siding east of Vegreville) at 1015. The Vegreville sub carded two eastward and two westward freights per day as well the North Battleford "Budd cars" in the early '70s. Power is an F7A/GP9/F7A combo with two of those units still in the classic green and yellow, 10 years after the adoption of the "CN noodle".
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Railway: Canadian National
Date: spring 1971
Location: near Vegreville
Province: Alberta
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As northwestern Ontario's fall colours turn, CN's last SD40 leads a sister across the bridge at Windy Point (east of Fort Frances) on a cool, cloudy day in 1983. Train 408 is operating from Winnipeg's Symington Yard to Thunder Bay's Neebing Yard with a consist typical of the era--40 foot grain box cars, covered hoppers of grain, and various other merchandise traffic. At this time, pairs of "international service" SD40s powered most trains, including those to the Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific which turn south at Duluth Jct about 10 miles west of here.
Name: John Eull
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/02/1983
Location: WIndy Point
Province: Ontario
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Having received these potash empties from the Union Pacific at Eastport, Idaho and travelled up the Cranbrook, Crowsnest and Taber subs to the mainline at Dunmore, train 618 rolls through Pashley, Alberta (just east of Medicine Hat) headed for reloading in Saskatchewan. Power today is a trio of ES44ACs--CP 8716, KCS 4863, and KCS 4621.
Name: John Eull
Railway: Canadian Pacific K…
Date: 09/23/2026
Location: Pashley
Province: Alberta
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Bearing a banner to mark the event ("Derniere train du passagers du CN, Adieu" and the dates 1923-1988), CN GP9 4422 and three coaches bring down the curtain on 65 years of CN passenger trains on Friday 9 September 1988. While the former NAR "Muskeg Mixed" will continue to operate into May 1989, this indeed is CN's last passenger train. (Little did we know at the time that CN would re-enter the passenger business in the early 2000s, through its purchase of the Wisconsin Central and the Algoma Central!)
Name: John Eull
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 9/9/1988
Location: St. Lambert
Province: Quebec
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Passengers board Montreal bound commuter train 991 at St. Lambert for the last time on Friday 9 September 1988. Tonight's outbound train will be the last trip for the long-standing commuter service which was once powered by the last 244-engined locomotives on the CN roster, FPA2 6750 and RS3 3900. Today GP9 4422 leads three coaches.
Name: John Eull
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 9/9/1988
Location: St. Lambert
Province: Quebec
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Shortly after leaving Pacific Central station, Amtrak train 1761 begins its southward trip to Seattle with Talgo equipment behind F40PH 230. I rode this train in 2018 and was pleasantly surprised by how scenic the trip was and the number of BNSF freights we passed!
Name: John Eull
Railway: Amtrak
Date: 09/10/1995
Location: Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
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A business trip to Vancouver in 1995 gave me the opportunity to spend a Sunday shooting in the Vancouver area. While scouting locations to photograph the afternoon Amtrak departure from the Pacific Central station, I came across BN 194 and 192 (both former Northern Pacific SW1200s) which I believe were bringing cars from the nearby interchange yard (with CN and Southern Railway of British Columbia/former BC Hydro). This is still a BN train...the BNSF merger will take place 12 days from now (22 September 1995).
Name: John Eull
Railway: Burlington Norther…
Date: 09/10/1995
Location: Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
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CN RS18 leads a six-car commuter train over the Richelieu River slowing for its Beloeil station stop. On this last day of August 1984, the train faces an uncertain future--it has not been included in the take over of the Deux Montagnes and CP Lakeshore commuter trains by the Montreal Urban Community (MUC) and, indeed, this train and its evening counterpart (No. 900) will make their last runs four years from now (9 September 1988).
Name: John Eull
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 8/31/1984
Location: Beloeil
Province: Quebec
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Prior to the construction of VIA's Winnipeg Maintenance Centre in the late 1980s, passenger cars were kept in the East Yard and moved up to station by the "depot" switcher (a GMD1 in the winter and an SW8/SW900--or occasionally an SW1200RS--in the summer). On a cloudy March afternoon in 1982, CN 1900 moves a VIA/ex-CP stainless steel car through the yard. Off to the left you can see the passenger cars for the Prairie Dog Central steam train which operated on Sundays in the summer from CN's St. James to Grosse Isle. Behind the coaches, the Rivers Sub freight tracks bypassing the station can be seen. Today there are also several hoppers of coal for the steam heating facility which supplied the station (note smoke stack and the dome complete with a red CN logo). Of course, today this is The Forks market.
Name: John Eull
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 3/28/1982
Location: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
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Rolling past the St. ALbert (city) sign, that's not the station name here--it's Campbell Park...Nonetheless, the crew will soon be calling the RTC to report that they are clear of OCS limits on the former NAR Westlock sub and Walker Yard to either get yarding instructions or learn that they are being held out due to congestion. L59051 originated in Smith, AB and has 16 loads and 89 empties, including a long cut of empty Herzog ballast cars. A pair of SD40-2s lead the train--5367 (originally built for the Missouri Pacific in 1973 and acquired by CN from Union Pacific in 1994) and comfort cab equipped 5265 (built new for CN in July 1975).
Name: John Eull
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/07/2026
Location: St. Albert
Province: Alberta
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L51641 from Whitecourt gingerly crosses the swollen Sturgeon River in St. Albert with SD70M-2s 8888, 8931, and 47 cars. (Central Alberta has received record amounts of rain this summer.)
Name: John Eull
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/02/2026
Location: St. Albert
Province: Alberta
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Not far from the NW5, BN 2509/2232/2228 (GP35/GP30/GP30) rest in the yard. These units likely came in on BN 184, the Seattle-Vancouver manifest, which ran daily (see Roger Burrows' book Railway Mileposts: British Columbia, volume I, published 1981).
Name: John Eull
Railway: Burlington Norther…
Date: 5/8/1978
Location: Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
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Having just arrived on VIA's Super Continental, I noticed several BN units in the yard adjacent to what is now the Pacific Central station (at the time, the CN station and site of local offices--the station not yet having been conveyed to VIA; VIA had only officially become its own crown corporation on April 1st). The NW5 is one of only 13 built, 10 for Great Northern...EMD's answer to Alco's RS1 and a predecessor of our own GMD1s. The freight shed in the background is part of former GN facilities in central Vancouver including, until the mid-1960s, it's own station.
Name: John Eull
Railway: Burlington Norther…
Date: 5/08/1978
Location: Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
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What the saying, "always keep your camera with you"...just running errands on a Thursday afternoon, I found IC heritage unit 7601 and slug 601 switching Bissell yard. The Edson sub mainline is in the middle of the photo and in the back is the Heidelberg Materials concrete plant (previously Inland Cement).
Name: John Eull
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 7/09/2026
Location: Edmonton
Province: Alberta
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CN NW2 impatiently waits for passengers from the NMRA 6th Division Meet to board at the Alberta Railway Museum gift shop for a train ride (several "back and forth" passes on museum grounds). NW2 7944 was built by EMD in Lagrange in 1946 and donated to the Museum by CN in 1977. Former Montreal commuter car 6740, built in 1952 (an MU trailer in service until 1995), is on loan from Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions in Stettler according to the Canadian Trackside Guide. The station was built by the Canadian Northern Railway in 1909 and moved here in 1973. (The station building now in St. Albert is a replica.)
Name: John Eull
Railway: Preservation
Date: 6/5/2026
Location: Edmonton
Province: Alberta
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Hard to believe today, but there was a time when GE locomotives were a "rounding error" in the CN roster. (A handful of electrics in Montreal commuter service, the 70 tonners on PEI, and a few 44 tonners...) So here we have "the long and the short of it"--BCOL 4618 (built in 1990 and donated the the Alberta Railway Museum in 2023) and CN 4 (built in 1956, retired in 1967, subsequently sold to Stelco in Edmonton who donated it to the Museum in 2012). One of the volunteers told me that the 4618 is operable but too heavy to be used on the light rail at the Museum!
Name: John Eull
Railway: Preservation
Date: 6/5/2026
Location: Edmonton
Province: Alberta
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Running late this December morning, TF2 approaches the Vinemount siding as it crests the Niagara Escarpment behind CR 2887, 3642, and 8071. (Units are former Penn Central U30B, Reading GP35, and Penn Central GP38-2.)
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Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 12/10/1978
Location: Vinemount
Province: Ontario
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The colours have just started to change as the Starlight makes its usual late afternoon appearance at Bayview behind PC 7429, 5820, and 7430 on a fine October 1974 afternoon. The fans preferred TH&B units on this train; however, it turns out that the black PC units were more unusual--Penn Central only had a corporate existence from 1968 to 1976 whereas TH&B units were found on the Starlight and Kinnear from 1966 until 1985!
Name: John Eull
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/13/1974
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
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