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After admiring David Vincent's fantastic over/under catch from New Year's Eve, I realized I had a shot with a similar angle in my slide collection. Here is a "before" shot from October 1979, of CN #387 making its way to Sarnia. That's a GTW open autorack behind the power, followed by a Missouri Pacific 60' auto parts boxcar. <br> <br>There are quite a few changes to note over the past 41 years - obviously the sumac thickets have given way to young trees. Clearly the bridge has not been painted in that time, since that one line of vulgar graffiti was there in '79 and is still there today.
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Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/1979
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 15 Favourites
VIA #35 has spent the last mile or so braking from 100 to 65 mph. In less than a minute the train will pass through Hawthorne, and in about five minutes the train will have arrived at Ottawa station. <br> <br>Normally, #35 arrives in Ottawa five minutes before #26 departs. Today's #35 was late and met #26 at Carlsbad Springs, where it lost even more time, ultimately arriving 37 minutes late. <br> <br>It's early March 2018 and 6416 has yet to trade its Canada 150 wrap for the VIA 40th Anniversary logo.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 03/04/2018
Location: Ottawa
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
CP #142 is underway after making a setout and pickup at the east yard in Smiths Falls. The train has over 13,000 tons with only 8842 as a DPU to help 8886. While they were permitted to run at 60 mph, the crew told the RTC "not to expect any miracles". In response, the RTC arranged for #143 to take the siding in Winchester so #142 could hold the main. Clearly, Red Green has hired on with CP, and was assigned to fix the numberboard for 8886.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/10/2020
Location: Smiths Falls
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
VIA 6419 carries the paddle on #52 as it exits the Brockville Sub. Two locomotives on a four and five-car trains are common lately because of the pandemic. Toronto-Ottawa consists have been generally turning back at Ottawa, rather than running through to Montreal on a different train, and the second locomotive saves a move on the M&O wye.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 10/24/2020
Location: Smiths Falls
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
Ah, the colours of autumn... yellow, orange, red, green, and... blue? A break in the clouds allows the sun to light up CMQ 3816 as it idles in the west yard at Smiths Falls. The more typical local power - 2252 and 3100 - was tucked behind a string of tank cars. Although this unit has been rebuilt internally and is now considered a GP38-3M, it was still very nice to see what is outwardly a GP35 working for CP in 2020. CP disposed of its fleet of GP35s over 20 years ago.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: Central Maine and …
Date: 10/24/2020
Location: Smiths Falls
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
An eastbound CP freight has just completed its crew change, and slowly pulls past the former CP/VIA station, now a community theatre.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/09/2018
Location: Smiths Falls
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
A short VIA #55 has just entered the Smiths Falls Subdivision after passing through Federal, the junction with the Beachburg Sub. In a few minutes the train will stop at the suburban Fallowfield station which serves Ottawa's west end, where it is due to depart at 15:26. The Smiths Falls Sub was originally the mainline of the Canadian Northern Railway. A major CNoR yard and shops were once located behind me at this location. A few years ago, the original turntable pit was rediscovered, excavated, and documented, then buried again under the parking lot of a new hotel.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 08/04/2015
Location: Ottawa
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
It's the late afternoon of August 26, 2015, and the elusive CN #589 is almost home. GP38-2(W) 4771 has retrieved three tank cars from Nylene in Arnprior, and is rolling east across the Walkley Diamond. In a moment it will rumble under the Bank Street overpass (where I'm standing) and into CN's Walkley Yard. The North-South line is currently Capital Railway's Ellwood Subdivision, better known as the Trillium Line of OC Transpo's O-Train. Previously this was Canadian Pacific's Prescott Subdivision, running between Hull, Quebec, and its namesake town in Ontario. At the time of writing (October 2020), this line is shut down for a major rebuilding and extension, but in 2015, CN #589 had to wait for clearance to cross in between O-trains on a 15-minute frequency. Milepost 4 is measuring 4 miles from Hawthorne, the junction of the Walkley Line with the VIA (nee CN) Alexandria Subdivision. At one time the Walkley Line was joint CN-CP trackage, and until 1995 this track carried mainline CN freights across Ottawa to the Beachburg Subdivision, on which they travelled up the Ottawa Valley, across Algonquin Park, and on to Capreol. Today, track on the Beachburg Sub has been removed west of Nepean Junction, and the only regular traffic is the weekly trundle of #589 to Arnprior.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/26/2015
Location: Ottawa
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 17 Favourites
Incoming and outgoing crews greet each other as CP #142 pulls into the #2 yard track in Smiths Falls. The crews will work together to expedite the train's set out and pick up from the east yard. With class unit 7000 leading 7021 in the Army Arid Regions tribute scheme, the power was already pretty interesting, but with CMQ 3816 idling in the yard, the scene was even more diverse. Apparently the CMQ "GP38-3M" appeared overnight.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/24/2020
Location: Smiths Falls
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 13 Favourites
One-unit wonder 8002 hauls a long string of empty autoracks towards Wood Road and milepost 119 on the Winchester Subdivision, a point designated as "Rosedale". One might say that this westbound is running "wrong main", but the north track is no longer fit for travel - it was lifted in the spring, and the Winchester Sub has been converted to CTC. The north track now begins about a mile west of here, but 8002 will keep the south track through Smiths Falls, as #142 is in town working the yard.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/10/2020
Location: Smiths Falls
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
In the low light of a December afternoon, VIA 911 leads #47 through the crossovers on the CP Belleville Subdivision in Smiths Falls. The train has come off the VIA Smiths Falls subdivision, once a segment of the Canadian Northern mainline. Shortly it will pass the former CP/VIA station and diverge onto the Brockville Subdivision.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 12/09/2018
Location: Smiths Falls
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
CP 8129 eases up to the CP building in Smiths Falls for a crew change.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/09/2018
Location: Smiths Falls
Province: Ontario
Comments | 6 Favourites
VIA #45 is blasting for the Eagleson Road crossing before flying through the village of Richmond, Ontario, southwest of Ottawa. Moving at 95 mph, the train has conjured a cloud of snow that is enveloping the Barnsdale Road crossing in the background.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 11/18/2018
Location: Richmond
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
After setting off a defective car, eastbound CP freight #142 departed Smiths Falls at 1430 hrs on Sunday, February 9, 2020. From where I was standing on McCrea Road, seven miles away, the sound of the train throttling up echoed like thunder. The train is led by "HMCS" CP 7022, assisted by mid-train DPU 8723 and rear DPU 8548. The three units had 142 up to the 50 mph track speed when it hit mile 116 at 1437 hrs. The grey of the lead unit and the vortex of snow enveloping the train are great camouflage for the gloomy overcast day, typical of winter in Eastern Ontario. Scenes like this will change soon. The Winchester Subdivision is currently directional double track with OCS/ABS, but it is slated to be converted to single track CTC. New "Darth Vader" shrouded LED signals are being positioned beside some of the classic ABS searchlights, and track removal is likely to start in May.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/09/2020
Location: Merrickville
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 7 Favourites
CP 142 arrived at Smiths Falls at 1339 hrs on August 11, 2019. A member of the incoming crew has just popped inside the office to confer with the dispatcher; as soon as he returns, the outgoing crew will throttle up and 142 will get its roll-by. In total the wheels were stopped for less than three minutes.
Name: Jakob Mueller
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/11/2019
Location: Smiths Falls
Province: Ontario
Comments | 6 Favourites

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