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Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » Marcus Stevens http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:44:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Images by marcus-stevens http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=154 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:24:07 +0000 Marcus Stevens

Back in 2003 the area still had two shortlines operating in the area over both former CP and CN lines. Not the case today unfortunately with only CN serving what rails remain. On this trip we hoped to get both railways operating but unfortunately the two days we had in the area nothing ran. I wasn’t exactly sure where the power at the time was kept but after scoping out the area we came across almost all of their power. For a brief period Trillium Railway had some kind of connection with the KPR I believe as their former M420 3575 is in the mix. The two HLCX former UP SD40’s (rebuilt into SD38’s) were a sign of what would become of the motive power here as the MLW’s would eventually be sold to Lake State Railway in Michigan and replaced with GP38’s. Eventually the KPR folded and CN returned to operate what remains here today.moving or not I certainly can’t complain with the consist this day in front of my eyes.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Kewlona Pacific Ra…
Date:	07/13/2003
Location:	Vernon
Province:	British Columbia

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While waiting for the short lived tourist train to depart, myself and a railfan fried snuck down to the shop to find a trio of out of service RS23’s and this pair on the shop track. It was such an interesting operation that I regret never making a return trip to see again. I alway had a thing for CP’s RS23’s especially after catching them working countless times on the Ontario Southland. On the Windsor & Hauntsport only one unit received corporate paint while the rest retained patched CP paint. One even had a multi-mark. Sadly in the end all met the scrappers torch with their prime movers sold to a navel company.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Windsor and Hantsp…
Date:	07/14/2002
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Nova Scotia

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For a few years I made the effort to go out mainly for the fall and winter “Credit Valley Explorer” trains. It was hard to take a bad photo on most of the line with its scenery and deep history. Definitely one of the lines in Southern Ontario I miss the most today. One by one the branchlines that connected to the subdivision vanished into history and freight traffic went on a steady decline well after passenger service ended. Cando did what it could to satisfy the customers that remained but in the end it wasn’t enough. The tour trains on the other hand were a huge success often selling out. But when Orangeville lost interest in the line nothing could save it and today the line is abandoned but still mostly intact. I always tried to get shots of the large Forks of the Credit bridge but it wasn’t an easy task. Limited parking and tight angles didn’t help but this day lucky timing prevailed. The passing tour train catches the eye of a fuel truck driver filling a local home as the veteran GP9 rolls across the bridge.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Orangeville-Brampt…
Date:	10/20/2007
Location:	Forks of the Credi…
Province:	Ontario

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It’s hard to pass up a trio of CN “stripes” in 2026, even if they are looking a bit ratty. It feels like it was only yesterday that I was chasing the once so common sets of six axle units painted is stripes. Sadly it was a lot longer since I’ve had the opportunity to. This spot near Etonia is one of my favorites in more recent years, at least for westbounds. Here the sound of local CN 383 fills the air long before its arrival as it heads westbound, back home to London.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/20/2026
Location:	Etonia
Province:	Ontario

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It’s unfortunate back it those traveling days my friend and I always wanted to cover a lot of ground each day of the holiday. Unfortunately our visit to the Windsor Hauntsport Railway landed on the weekend , meaning we could not catch any of the gypsum trains. We did thankfully that day cross paths with the relatively short lived tourist train they ran. The WHRC typically put a RS23 on each end as there were no run around spots at the end. At Wolfville the train would stop allowing passengers a chance to have a picnic lunch before heading back. What I give today for a redo here, unfortunately the RS23’s are long gone and the line has been out of service for years.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Windsor and Hantsp…
Date:	07/14/2002
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Nova Scotia

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It’s hard to believe it has been 15 years since I last crossed paths with Cando GP9 1001. The last time was sadly the final run to Collingwood. I can only wish I was railfanning back when CN still ran through Barrie. Allandale yard was once a busy and important division point for all the branchlines that once were fed from the yard there. The 1980’s and 90’s claimed almost all of the lines including severing CN’s New Market sub. as a through route. Today only GO Transit and Barrie Collingwood remain. Thanks to an early start today I was able to finally cross paths again with the veteran high hood GP9. (A big thanks to a well known railroader for information on today’s run) today’s train only had two cars out of Utopia and left the run around track with 3 more. Here the train has just finished running around its train at the end of track under Highway 400 and will now serve one last customer on its way home.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Cando
Date:	07/23/2026
Location:	Innisfil
Province:	Ontario

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The forest fire smoke from northwestern Ontario is very visable thanks to shifting winds, as OSR’s job to Tilsonburg heads south just out of Salford, with three tank cars in tow. They will have over an hours work in Tilsonburg before heading back north.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	07/16/2026
Location:	Salford
Province:	Ontario

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The good old “rent a wreck” days on CN. Don’t think too many of these actually led trains while on CN so this dreary day it was worth running out to Tansley to get it, especially as no CN units on the train. I miss all these unwanted Dash-8 leasers, as well as the unwanted BNSF ex ATSF SD75’s. The NS SD60 rebuild was just a bonus. I could definitely use some of this variety today.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/23/2018
Location:	Tansley
Province:	Ontario

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Happier times in Uxbridge. Back in 2015 I was able to take my boys to see Thomas the tank engine on the York Durham RR. The area that day was pretty congested with people but I managed to get a few photos. Here RS11 3612 is getting looked over before the next push out of town on the next trip. I miss photographing that railroad but am at least happy most of the equipment survived the end of the operations here and we’ll be enjoyed by others out in western Canada. Our loss is truly their gain.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Tourist
Date:	08/22/2015
Location:	Uxbridge
Province:	Ontario

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When it comes to CN’’s Dash-9’s these first examples have always been my favourite. In the early years they were hard to find unless you heard to the Bala subdivision. Thankfully as more GE’s arrived they became more common in the east. It was always nice catching them in pairs although not all that common. I liked the four window can and marker light set up not to mention them being the only Dash-9 to receive the map paint scheme. This day rack train 275 had a pair of low 2500’s as they sit the signals at mile 30. CN 2517 was one of two with the map scheme that had the website added later. Today their numbers are dwindling rapidly and their paint jobs are looking pretty rough and faded.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/04/2015
Location:	Scotch Block
Province:	Ontario

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While CN’s surviving GP9RM’s get most of the attention these days, the surviving GTW GP9R’s deserve just as much attention. While they spend most of their time States side, a few have made their way north of the border to help fill in where needed. Originally built as a high short hood GP9 and utilized on both the GTW and CV , it years later was sent to undergo the GP9R rebuild program. In the process it received a new cab and short hood as well as relocated air tanks along with many other modifications. While several have been repainted in CN paint, others like 4623 retain their GTW blue and red. Unfortunately today it spent the day in trailing position on local 542 but at least allowed me one opportunity to catch it not nose coupled as it switched out the shared Guelph North spurs.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/14/2026
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

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Streetsville has long played a part in my Railfaning life. It has always been my closest location when it comes to photographing CP. Often after college I would take the long route home trough Streetsville just in case anything was around. I soon discovered the local that served local industries here. Originally a single MLW based at Guelph Junction, later it was relocated to West Toronto where it is still located today. Back in the early 2000’s the local was still running daily, Monday to Friday. The ADM Mill was still a big customer for CP in those days, served almost daily and often twice on Wednesday’s, even occasionally served on Saturday’s. Here is one of those rare Saturday runs, dodging winter shadows as it heads back to the mainline. While the spur to the mill wasn’t long it was somewhat scenic travelling trough a tunnel of trees, clinging to the hillside above the Credit River on part of a route proposed so long ago by “booth” when he proposed the Credit Valley Railway follow the River to a connection with the Great Western Railway (now CN) at Port Credit. Although the route was rejected this short spur gives you an idea of what could have been. Unfortunately the more recent years have not been good for ADM’s mill. A change in shipping found the mill totally end rail service and even trucks to the mill don’t seem as frequent. Today the spur has been severed from the mainline and is now badly overgrown. Only time will tell if a revival will ever come.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/14/2002
Location:	Streetsville
Province:	Ontario

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This is definitely not a location I visit often, but if I’m in the area it’s hard not to pass by just incase something interesting is on the hump sets. Not a scenic location but the sound of the hump sets working hard make up for it. Typically the sets over the past several years at the north end find a SD40 on each end sandwiching a home built slug. I was a bit surprised today to find a BLE “tunnel motor” in place of the usual slug. As for CN’s SD40U locomotives, I definitely miss seeing them out on the mainline, so definitely nice crossing paths with one today.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/29/2026
Location:	Vaughan (Toronto)
Province:	Ontario

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This was the only time I saw this centre cab critter shootable. The shot was through the fence and today the weeds and bushes are too high on the other side of the fence to get any photos, not to mention the unit is rarely in an open space. This was St, Lawrence Cement’s Mississauga operation but now has been rebranded as Holcim. The plant is regularly switched out by CN with the little swicher used to move cars around only inside the facility.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	10/17/2013
Location:	Clarkson
Province:	Ontario

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One of those locations I’ve always liked photographing over the years in the fall. Unfortunately sunny days don’t work for this angle so often I found myself making g the trip up the Guelph Junction Railway on bright but overcast days, at least for the morning northbound trip. During 2022 GEXR operations were in need of some additional power to fill in for ailing units and freshly painted/overhauled Huron Eastern GP38 3510 was quickly rerouted to the GEXR. The four exhaust stacks give away its Mo-Pac heritage. In the autumn I’ve always liked photographing the colourful trees on the hill just north of Arkel, with the train in the distance.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	10/06/2022
Location:	Arkel
Province:	Ontario

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Late light seemed fitting to frame the falling searchlights at Mansewood. Time waits for no one, and soon the new signals will be cut in as the entire subdivision is rapidly switching to new LED signals. I’ve spent many years photographing the area along with its constant changes, from the line itself to its motive power. Many fond memories. Even the pair of SD75’s leading train 424 will soon find their turn in undergoing a full rebuild.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/28/2026
Location:	Mansewood (Milton)
Province:	Ontario

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CN once had a decent variety of six axle cowl units, by the late 1990’s the small fleet of Bombardier HR616’s were gone. Then the 2000’s would claim the somewhat troublesome SD50F’s. The SD60F fleet along with the handful of demonstrator SD50AF’s would soldier on through the 2010’s until being displaced by a large group of second hand standard cab ex Oakway SD60’s. This would leave CN’s Dash-8 cowls as the last Drapers on the roster until their retirement. The four demonstrator SD50AF’s 5500-5503 were unique as they were basically SD60F’s internally in a SD50F body. This day SD50AF 5503 was leading train 382 along with an IC SD70. By this time 5503 was running short on years remaining on CN’s roster and showing its age with damaged grills, replacement hood door and a good coat of weathering. Today the CN’s variety of cowls is certainly missed by railfans.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	11/05/2014
Location:	Scotch Block
Province:	Ontario

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Growing up my family spent a lot of weekends at a campground outside of Acton. Some of my favourite memories are of evenings spent at the campfire listing to distant trains battling the Niagara Escarpment as they headed westward, along with horn echoing through the hillsides. In later years after the camping ended o spent more time exploring CN’s Guelph subdivision around Acton, my day shift ending time often allowed me to chase Goderich Exeters train 431 as it daily battled the Escarpment. This spot for me was a hidden gem often overlooked by a lot of railfans, mainly due to the sun never being in the right location to illuminate everything properly. Cloudy days were preferred here. The sound of the six axle EMD’s fighting the grade was like no other, and they often lost the battle. Unfortunately time rolls on, and CN took back the operations from GEXR and this end of the subdivision was sold to Metrolinx, with CN becoming a tenant and all freight movements this side of Acton became nocturnal. Today CN still battles the Escarpment but under the cover of darkness. Here GEXR train 431 with my favourite “Tunnel Motor” in the lead is seen heading into Acton under dreary skies.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	02/19/2016
Location:	Acton
Province:	Ontario

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Bridging the gap. So much branchline railroading has vanished from Southern Ontario over the last few decades. It is nice to see, even today that the GEXR still has some nice rural trackage left, including some old photographic bridges. This shot was taken almost twenty years ago but most of the surviving trackage still looks the same. Unfortunately it’s hit and miss as far as catching a train. When the original GEXR started up in the early 1990’s many days you could still catch at least two trains running on its lines. Later that was lowered to basically one, and today, many days out of the week no train can be found along the rails west of Stratford. Here a typical consist for the time is slowly making its way over an old road bridge and through the rural countryside west of Stratford.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	10/26/2006
Location:	Sebringville West
Province:	Ontario

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Yesterday’s oddball H24 brought back memories of the old CP Guelph Junction turn that up till the end of the 1990’s ran between Agincourt and the junction typically with a pair of SD40’s, often working Streetsville yard on the eastbound trip. While the branch at Streetsville is restricted to four axle power the yard lead must have been exempt. Later years found a pair of GP9’s running that turn job until it was abolished. Back then Streetsville and its industries were typically served by a local out of Guelph junction until it was relocated to West Toronto by the 2000’s. Today the power typically is just a pair of GP38’s or GP20’s. When Hornby yard was converted to a trans load facility it added much needed traffic to the local and from time to time requires larger power depending on train size. Yesterday was only the second time I have seen six axle power added for a run to Hornby. The first time it was a solo SD60, this time SD40 5920. Tho lash up guaranteed there would be no work in Streetsville and a straight shot to Hornby. After catching the westbound run I figured I’d be out of luck catching the SD40 leading the eastbound run, but it took a few hours to finally make its way back home. Unfortunately the lighting conditions deteriorated and almost got blocked by a GO train but still managed to catch the train at Meadowvale.

Name:	Marcus W Stevens
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	02/11/2025
Location:	Meadowvale
Province:	Ontario

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