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Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » Owen Watson 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 owen-watson http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3166 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname#comments Thu, 07 May 2026 20:26:18 +0000 Owen Watson

Freshly repainted CP 6012 and sister 5871 lug a heavy welded rail train up the Palgrave hill on a gloomy summer afternoon. CP's recent SD40-2 overhaul program has brought many units, including 6012, out of storage for repairs and a fresh coat of paint courtesy of Progress Rail.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/07/2023
Location:	Palgrave
Province:	Ontario

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The Essex Terminal 1600 job switches Windsor's north end with both of the ETR's sharp looking heritage units for power. The 104 is the more recent of the two, wearing paint designed as a cross between ETR's original green and later black chevron liveries.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Essex Terminal
Date:	07/27/2023
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

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I couldn't think of a more patriotic way to spend Canada day than shooting an ex. Canadian Pacific steamer on the South Simcoe Railway. Said locomotive, the SSR 136, has been featured in several TV shows, including National Dream.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Tourist
Date:	07/01/2023
Location:	New Tecumseth
Province:	Ontario

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In an era of GP20ECOs dominating CP local freights, railways like the OSR who still use their better looking predecessor, the GP9U, are becoming more and more appreciated. OSR 8235 looks stylish in CP Action Red while pulling into Tillsonburg Yard.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	05/05/2023
Location:	Tillsonburg
Province:	Ontario

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Emerging from a gloomy rain shower to the south, freshly washed EMD SD70ACU 7052 catches the evening sun as it leads CP train 421 north to Baxter, where it will meet a ballast train. CP's fleet of SD70ACUs look sharp in the newest rendition of the famed Candy Apple Red colours, with the recently revived golden beaver herald on the long hood.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/24/2023
Location:	Tottenham
Province:	Ontario

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Cutting through the morning fog west of Woodstock, ON, the 710 engine of CP's Air Force Military unit sounds eerily similar to the nose-mounted minigun on an American A-10 Warthog fighter plane. These legendary planes will be kept in service until at least 2040, and we can all hope CP 7023 will be around even longer!

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/05/2023
Location:	Woodstock
Province:	Ontario

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In light of a recent power shortage, the York Durham Heritage Railway has reached a deal with Ontario Northland to lease out an old high-hood GP9 for the near future. After a tumultuous delivery journey and several arguments between CN and Metrolinx over who should deliver it, the ONT 1603 is seen departing Uxbridge on a sunny May morning with a long train full of locals and tourists.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	05/13/2023
Location:	Uxbridge
Province:	Ontario

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With the recent removal of most of the old telegraph poles on the CN Bala mainline from Toronto to Washago, the S curve looking north through Gormley provides a refreshing reminder of the railway's past. With dynamic brakes whining, a venerable duo of EMD SD70/75 series diesels roll Q108 south towards Doncaster.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/10/2023
Location:	Gormley
Province:	Ontario

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The fresh smell of lumber is in the air as CN 3115, adorned in the striking BC Rail "Hockey Stick" livery, glides south through the timber yards of Vandorf, ON. CN 3069 and 3008 led consecutive northbounds not even a week prior, giving local railfans a heritage hat trick of sorts.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/01/2023
Location:	Vandorf
Province:	Ontario

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They say the city never sleeps, but it sure feels like it's just waking up on this sunny Toronto morning as a GO train dwarfed by the CN tower shuttles commuters towards Union Station. It's hard to believe this area of the city was once an expansive rail yard!

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	07/30/2022
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

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CN Q109 flies over the town of Parry Sound on its way north (and eventually east) to Vancouver. The massive trestle is actually part of the Canadian Pacific Parry Sound Subdivision, which hosts CN northbounds as part of a directional running agreement between the 2 companies. Completed in 1907, the trestle is the longest rail bridge in the province and provides a spectacle to the otherwise sleepy town below it.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	11/05/2022
Location:	Parry Sound
Province:	Ontario

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VIA #1 "The Canadian" crawls past the platform at Bloomington GO on a sunny October morning as the vibrant fall colours in the background begin to fall. Unseen in this image is the empty coach tacked on to the timeless Park car at the end of the train, a new practice for VIA after Transport Canada deemed their Budd coaches "not structurally sound".

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	10/23/2022
Location:	Richmond Hill
Province:	Ontario

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A southbound CP stack train blasts under the 9th Line wooden bridge near Beeton, Ontario on a windy October day. After a closure for repairs, it was thought the nostalgic road bridge would be replaced but it was soon repaired and re-opened for the near future. Infrastructure like this is becoming less and less common, so shoot it while it lasts!

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/15/2022
Location:	Beeton
Province:	Ontario

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CN 7258, a venerable GP9RM decked out with IPO 15 prints from 2010, hauls a long cut of cars south as it flat switches the west end of MacMillan Yard north of Toronto on a chilly December morning. The IPO 15 stickers, highlighting 15 years of CN being a publicly traded company, sport an SD70I while this print was ironically never applied to one, being featured solely on 7258 and a handful of Dash 8s. More recently, CN introduced a small fleet of heritage units in 2020 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this occasion.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	12/04/2022
Location:	Vaughan
Province:	Ontario

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In a rather impressive display of EMD muscle, a lone GP9 lugs 50+ cars of manifest towards ETR Ojibway Yard on a sunny July morning in the south end of Windsor. Once at Ojibway, the train will be disassembled and individual cars will be delivered to customers in the area.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Essex Terminal
Date:	07/09/2022
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

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After hearing the day before that South Simcoe Railway 136 was to have its potential last run that weekend, I made an effort to shoot this historic steamer on what could very well be its final trip north to Beeton. 136 needs a new boiler and unless $600,000 can be raised for the purchase, it will remain out of service and the diesel will be in charge of SSR operations.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Tourist
Date:	10/09/2022
Location:	New Tecumseth
Province:	Ontario

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CP's classy Business Train thunders south through the rolling farmlands of New Tecumseth, ON on its way to a golf tournament in Ottawa. CP executives and CEO Keith Creel will board the train in Toronto and ride it to the capital.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/11/2022
Location:	New Tecumseth
Province:	Ontario

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The evening's dark rainclouds split for a brief second, casting a golden glow over CN L517 as it nears MacMillan yard with a Canadian classic on point.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/18/2022
Location:	Thornhill
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

An SD70ACU duo roars past Mt Pleasant Road in Palgrave with a large 421 in tow and Arid Regions military tribute unit 7021 on the head end.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/27/2022
Location:	Palgrave
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 7 Favourites

In early June 2022, CN 2131, one of 22 remaining C40-8s in captive service on the DMIR, managed to escape Minnesota and somehow led CN 148 into Brampton on a rainy afternoon. Almost every railfan along the Strathroy, Dundas, Oakville and Halton subdivisions went out to document what is possibly the last CN C40-8 leader on a stack train.

Name:	Owen Watson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/05/2022
Location:	Brampton
Province:	Ontario

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