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Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » Glenn Courtney http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:06:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Images by glenn-courtney http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=36 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname#comments Sun, 24 May 2026 23:12:24 +0000 Glenn Courtney

One of the short-lived Eco-Rail trains sits in Malport Yard. These trains ran overnight between Toronto and I believe Drummondville, Quebec. For a very short period of time they may have run with only the Eco-Rail truck / locomotive before CN starting putting a locomotive in the lead.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/2/1996
Location:	Malton
Province:	Ontario

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Soo Line SD40-2 6614 leads train #474 south on the MacTier Subdivision. This many years later I have no idea exactly where this was taken but my slide was labelled Eady. Eady is a small settlement south of Medonte, just off Highway 400.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	SOO Line
Date:	08/17/1996
Location:	Eady
Province:	Ontario

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I have been chasing CPR 2212 West from just west of Kerrobert (about 30 miles to the east) as it plodded along the Macklin Subdivision at 10 MPH or so. It has arrived at Denzil where is will lift a few more empty ballast cars.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/26/2023
Location:	Denzil
Province:	Saskatchewan

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Sometimes you get lucky and this was one of those days! I got some sunshine on CN SD75I 5783 rolling through Hamilton before everything was swallowed up by black clouds.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/16/2003
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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A pair of clean CP Rail GP38-2s head west on the Glenboro Sub with grain hoppers and a few boxcars. We chased this train as far west as Elm Creek to a large Cargill facility which is as far as they went on this trip. It wasn't GP9s and there weren't many traditional wooden grain elevators on the line but it was still a neat way to spend an afternoon.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/28/1992
Location:	Starbuck
Province:	Manitoba

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For a period of time in 1992 Via's LRC car fleet was sidelined with some mechanical issues (something to do with the trucks, if I recall correctly). In their place Via rented some Go Transit bilevels. The non-reclining seats did not make for the most comfortable ride, at least compared to what you normally go with Via, I seem to remember that you got a 50% off coupon if you had a train with Go equipment.

In this scene #73 is passing the former station site at Dundas, under Dundas Peak.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	03/28/1992
Location:	Dundas
Province:	Ontario

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Something I wouldn't bother trying today is chasing a train from Guelph Junction to Streetsville, but back in 1992 it was possible and with an MLW M-636 on the point of this CP eastbound it was worth the effort.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/29/92
Location:	Mississauga
Province:	Ontario

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Former Rock Island GP40 724 leads a GO Transit deadhead move out of Hamilton after it came west from Toronto Union Station to the CN station in Hamilton. The deadhead move will run back to GO's Willowbrock shop complex.

Trailing 724 is ACPU 903 was rebuilt from an Ontario Northland FP7A and provided electrical power to the train as well as providing a cab on the push end of the train. No. 904 and most of GO's other ACPUs were scrapped in 1995. I was taking the train to Toronto then and watched the daily progress as the scrapper went down the row at Willowbrock.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	06/20/1988
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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I lived in Sydney from 1979 to 1984. Sydney Steel was still going fairly strong at that point, mainly producing rails for CN. There were roads around the plant that occasionally allowed you a glimpse of a switcher outside the plant working the interchange. I'm not 100% certain but I think Sysco interchanged with Devco, not with CN directly, and Devco took the CN traffic the 1/4 mile or so to the CN yard.

#8 was a GE 80 tonner. It was built for DOSCO in 1958 and worked its entire life in this plant. It was likely scrapped on site after the mill shut down in 2001, if not before that.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	07/03/1981
Location:	Sydney
Province:	Nova Scotia

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CN #413 is heading west on the Dundas Sub, beginning the climb up the Escarpment. It has just passed Hamilton West and is crossing over Highway 403.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/04/1987
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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Hoping that Huron Central was still sticking to a schedule that saw an eastbound come out of the Soo in the early morning I headed west from Sudbury in the pre-dawn darkness. It was still dark as I passed through Massey. I got all the way to the Soo and there was no sign of a Huron Central train. There was nothing going on in the Soo either so I headed back to Sudbury. Once I got back to Massey I found the Huron Central eastbound in Massey. A bunch of cars were in the ditch and the power was tied up in "town". I'm sure they were there when I went through earlier but were just far enough away from the highway that I did not see them in the darkness.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Huron Central Rail…
Date:	09/17/2002
Location:	Massey
Province:	Ontario

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Via #45 accelerates past Port Hope station enroute to Toronto.

The Port Hope station was built by Grand Trunk in 1856 using local limestone. CN brought forward a plan to remove the station in 1978 but was convinced by community groups to restore it and continue to use it for passenger service. It continues as a stop for a few Via trains daily.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	07/20/2002
Location:	Port Hope
Province:	Ontario

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I was returning home from Nova Scotia to Ontario after Christmas and had stopped for the night somewhere around Drummondville or Ste. Hyacinthe. When I woke up in the morning there was about a foot of snow down. I knew that even with the reduced traffic due to the holidays I did not want to try to get through Montreal during the morning rush hour. So, I headed south to Farnham to see what was happening on the Canadian-American. There was quite a bit of activity, I remember shooting a train switching at the east end of the yard and this train switching the west end with Bangor & Aroostook 356 leading. After a few hours in Farnham I headed west and drove out of the snow by the time I got to the Ontario border.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian American …
Date:	12/28/2000
Location:	Farnham
Province:	Quebec

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Back in the day CN's Kamloops engine facility was fairly accessible. You could drive in and bag some roster shots without even leaving the parking lot. In this scene the GP38-2s were the power for the train to Kelowna. CN 5407, a fairly new SD50F, would have been off a road train.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/31/1985
Location:	Kamloops
Province:	British Columbia

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BC Rail's M630Ws did not lead that often because they were not equipped with Locotrol. So when you got one in the lead you were fortunate. I got them as leaders 2 or 3 times. In this case the train was a second section of #14 running between Lillooet and Squamish. The first section no doubt did all the heavy lifting and likely ran with Locotrol-controlled remotes.

This was a pleasant chase for a couple of hours, although I do remember that because of the time of day the light was often not ideal. But, I'd love to be able to go back!

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	09/16/1987
Location:	Creekside
Province:	British Columbia

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The early bird gets the worm, so the old story goes! On this day that was definitely the case. I arrived at Bayview at 0655, which was a little later than I had planned but still early enough on this day. I soon learned that #384 was stopped on the hill in emergency and was setting up retainers before proceeding. Fifteen minutes later he came flying around the corner onto the Oakville Sub. That was the only eastbound around until #670 arrived and by then the clouds had rolled in. It definitely paid to get up with the sun!

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/09/2019
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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CN #120 obviously had some problems during the night and picked up GP38-2 4730 somewhere along the way to lead it into Halifax.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/03/2008
Location:	Truro
Province:	Nova Scotia

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Ontario Southland GP9u 1620, a former CPR unit, leads the Woodstock Turn westbound on the east side of Ingersoll.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	10/15/2016
Location:	Ingersoll
Province:	Ontario

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CN C40-8W 2188, a former Santa Fe unit, leads an eastbound off the Dundas Sub and on to the Oakville Sub at Bayview.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/28/2016
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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Via train #70 rolls downgrade east of the former Dundas station site.

Name:	Glenn Courtney
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	01/30/2005
Location:	Dundas
Province:	Ontario

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