Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » Isaac Bryson 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 isaac-bryson http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2670 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname#comments Thu, 07 May 2026 16:32:49 +0000 Isaac Bryson
Just over a year ago, a northbound CWR catches the tail end of sun on an otherwise cloudy day with CP 5996, CP 6045, and CP 6232 leading. The multimark is probably the most iconic logo from the diesel era of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Once displayed on hundreds of locomotives, the classic logo & accompanying "action red" paint colour are down to 6 active locomotives in 2026 by my count. With SD40-2 refurbs coming in the new Keith Creel colours, this number is expected to dwindle further as time goes on. A pair in 2025 was incredible, but the question must be asked: will Ontario see a multimark duo ever again? Chances are slim but you never know...
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/25/2025
Location: Alliston
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
CN L551 heads north (timetable east) up the Halton at restricting speeds following a 394 in front of them. Power is CN 4131 & CN 4115, matching zebra GP9RMs. CN 4115 recently returned to the Toronto power pool after spending the better part of the last decade in Montreal. As far as CN locals go, I don't think you can top a duo like this in 2026. Both units are approaching 70 years old, a wild sight for a class 1 railway.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 03/02/2026
Location: Milton
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 16 Favourites
A taste of home in a far away land... After spending 4 days marveling at the efficiency of CP RTC and trains in the Kootenay Valley (especially the Windermere sub), CP had to give us a reality check and a reminder that they are still incompetent, even in BC. The reminder this day was CP 416, which was tasked to work a small block-swapping yard along the Cranbrook sub called Tochty. They arrived at Tochty around 07h00 local time and by 10h00, when 7016W 419 arrived, they were still working the yard. So 419 waited. And waited. And waited. Eventually, CP realized 416 wasn't going to make it to Fort Steele in their 10, so they pulled a crew off a waiting grain empty and gave them 416. Finally just after 1pm, 416 finished the last of their yard work and shoved down the main to clear up the yard for 419 to pull in. Once 419 had the yard to themselves, it was a quick 5 car set off (no more than 30 minutes) and blast off for the border at Kingsgate and UP interchange. At Ryan, they are about 3 miles south of Tochty as they pull around the bend beside Hwy 95. The antics weren't over yet however. Once they passed us, they had to meet the tied down grain train which took the main at Yahk and cut a crossing so that foreman could access their equipment between train. Once 419 went around the grainer, the crossing stayed activated because the grain train was still on the crossing circuit, and there was nothing anyone could do until the grain train got a recrew about 4 hours later. Whoops!
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/04/2025
Location: Ryan
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 18 Favourites
When's the last time you found a 20 year old locomotive this clean? CP 9817 races the edge of a cloud as it brings CP 731 around the bend at Dumfries Rd just west of Cambridge. 9817 was repainted in 2017 and has shone basically ever since. Its a welcome outlier amongst a fleet full of red turning purple or black GEs.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/21/2025
Location: Cambridge
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
Well I finally learned what the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow is. CP A19, the Golden-Trail wayfreight soars through Canal Flats in the pouring rain with SD40-2 pair 5905 & 5973 leading. SD40s, mountains, and rainbows; what more could you ask for?
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/30/2025
Location: Canal Flats
Province: British Columbia
8 Comments | 30 Favourites
CN 149 lugs its train up the hill between Pickering and Markham with CN heritage unit 3008 leading and nearly new SD75IACC rebuild CN 8301 trailing. The nearby defect detector was broken, giving a reading of 153 axles (unlikely) and 0 speed (I don't think so). To its credit, it began the reading by "not working."
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/21/25
Location: Markham
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
Recently, John Freyseng posted a photo of CN budd cars northbound through the intersection of King Rd & Keele St in 1966. A commenter mentioned they wanted to see a modern day perspective from the same spot. Fortunately, I was in the area last summer and killing time when I noticed that an F59PH was heading southbound from Aurora GO. GO 558 makes the turn south, hitting a pocket of sun in the otherwise tree tunnel trench that was dug sometime after 1966.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 08/04/2024
Location: King City
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 18 Favourites
Me and a buddy made our way to Toronto yard on the morning of December 4th as we knew a work train was showing to dump CWR on the Mactier sub. Instead, we arrive to "the plow train" calling in the yard over the scanner. As they depart Toronto yard with Jordan Spreader CP 402894 and SD40-2 CP 5920, they tell RTC the plan: "up the Mactier sub, picking up a foreman in Midhurst, plowing maybe Medonte, definitely Buckskin & Bala; leave the plow in Bala and light power to Mactier. And the chase was on! Here they are ducking under the infamous 9th Line bridge near Beeton ON.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/04/2024
Location: Near Beeton
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 16 Favourites
One of 14 zebra GP9RMs left on CN's roster (5 in the Toronto pool) leads a rare trio of GP9RMs westbound as they highball down the Dundas sub after running around their train at Paris Junction. This particular trio was CN 4131, CN 7025, and CN 4136; who collectively had 198 years of service at the time the photo was taken. To my knowledge, there has not been another GP9 trio in London in the year since, although some wacky sets including 3 GP9s have occurred a bit to the north in the Kitchener terminal.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 11/20/2023
Location: Etonia
Province: Ontario
Comments | 18 Favourites
CN in Markham, a reunion 10 years in the making. After the YDHR shut its doors for the final time, ONR wanted their GP9 back and the crew of CN L546 was tasked with retrieving it from Lincolnville. CN 9555 and CN 9450 run up the Metrolinx Uxbridge sub light power to grab it, marking the first CN units to pass the historical Markham train station in 10 years, as far as I can tell. In 2014, CN ran a few work trains on the Uxbridge but since, only GO and ONR 1603 have passed the station. It's the wee hours of May 26th, nearly 01h30, yet nearly 10 railfans are out chasing this rare movement.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/26/2024
Location: Markham
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 15 Favourites
OSR's plow extra train removes snow from the tracks of the Port Burwell subdivision on a mild January morning. At 97 years old, OSR plow 401005 spearheads the operation with help from OSR F units 1401 and 6508. The engines are nearly invisible thanks to the amount of snow kicked up by this unique train.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 01/22/2024
Location: Ostrander
Province: Ontario
7 Comments | 20 Favourites
The Green Goblin frenzy has ended... CN 580 (and 581) might have been the most popular train all summer, with BNSF 2098 headlining the set and the likes of CN 9547, 4713, and 4791 acting as supporting characters. But of course, in early June when it first arrived, we didn't know it would last that long. On one of its first trips along the Hagersville sub, BNSF 2098 & CN 9547 cut through the rolling hills north of Onondaga ON with 11 loads from CGC.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/12/2023
Location: Onondaga
Province: Ontario
Comments | 9 Favourites
CP H88 climbs out of the Thames River valley west of Woodstock with 3 GP38-2s and 6200ft of traffic on the drawbar. Due to a derailment the week prior, H88 hadn't been able to run for 5 days. Traffic piled up and the crew was tasked to bring 103 cars back to London.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/22/2023
Location: Woodstock
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 8 Favourites
The sprayer, part 1. The 2023 version of the CP spray train saw multimark SD40-2 6055 at the helm. Me and a friend positioned ourselves at one a few wooden bridges left on the Belleville sub, this one being just west of Port Hope, Ontario. Just as time was running out to catch them, 6055 rounds the bend at a blistering 10 miles per hour, spraying the ROW with herbicides to prevent weed growth throughout the year.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/19/2023
Location: Port Hope
Province: Ontario
Comments | 15 Favourites
With under a month left of the London GO pilot project, I felt it was appropriate to make a post. The pilot project has been an utterly failure from the get-go, despite raising the speed limits east of Stratford to 60mph and doing tons of promotion for the train. As it turns out, not many want to spend 4 hours on the GO from Toronto to St. Mary's and/or London. That being said, when I visited Stratford it was suprisingly busy, indicating some level of demand there. I would hope Metrolinx looks at potentially bringing service to Stratford again in future. Here, GO 560 pulls 10 coaches down the Weston sub, in the final stages of the long journey from London.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 05/19/2023
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 13 Favourites
VIA 75 winds through Paris ON, overtaking a tied down CN 301 in the process. VIA 903, a wrapped P42DC provides the power, pulling 6 LRC coaches. ES44DC 2284 is CN 301s leader, who would get a rescue crew about a few hours later.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 06/16/2023
Location: Paris
Province: Ontario
Comments | 13 Favourites
CP 239 rips around the bend, getting up to trackspeed after clearing Guelph Junction with CP 9722 leading. Highball to London!
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/29/2023
Location: Puslinch
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
Rare mileage... sort of. Earlier in the day, CP H88 eastbound left a cut of manifest on the OSR connecting track at Woodstock anticipating a pickup by the shortline later in the day. By the time they returned westbound, OSR had not showed and a foreman needed the track clear to move MOW equipment out of Woodstock. CP H88 hooked back onto the cut they left behind and shoved it into the OSR yard so that a track was clear for the foreman. It's pretty uncommon to see CP on those tracks so it was worth a few shots despite the smoky skies blocking out the sun.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/23/2023
Location: Woodstock
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 7 Favourites
The glory days of the lowly CN GECO spur may be gone (after the GM van assembly plant closed in the 90s) but CN 546 still traverses it twice a week. On this night, CN L546 was stopped at IPEX while the conductor threw a switch in the middle of their duties there. CN 4125 and CN 4776 spot 1 car and pull another out. CN 4125 is the oldest active locomotive on CN (built 2/1955) and I am extremely thankful for every opportunity I have to shoot this unit.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/20/2023
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 12 Favourites
VIA 6410 pulls a 4-pack of LRCs through the countryside just west of Port Hope ON. Spring was in the air for this shot, with the buds just starting to grow on the roadside bushes.
Name: Isaac Bryson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 05/19/2023
Location: Port Hope
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
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