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CN 502 is seen doubling their train away in Southern Ontario Railway's Garnet Yard. It's always nice to get a ex. Citirail locomotive leading, and the sun even co-operated... before the snow flurries... in May. Behind the locomotives was a cut of CSXT steel slab cars that I had never seen on 502 before. Hopefully some new business for Stelco.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/02/2026
Location: Garnet
Province: Ontario
Comments | 6 Favourites
Up way too early for a Saturday morning, I decided to let the household sleep in and head out to see what CN was doing in the north end of Hamilton. Finding nothing happening at Stuart St., and hearing CP 8858 north heading up to Guelph Jct., I decided to go for a drive up to Campbellville to get a photo of CPKC 132. After they cleared the junction I noticed another eastbound was lined on the Galt Sub., so I waited a few minutes and was rewarded with CP 7015 east at 08:16, 14 minutes before the time I had planned to get out of bed. Not a bad way to start the day!
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/11/2026
Location: Campbellville
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
Planning to waste away another lunch hour at the station in Brantford, I was just about there when I heard a rumble and looked in my rearview mirror to see a blur of blue, yellow and silver whiz by. After some choice words, I decided to head for the highway and try to get ahead of the train west of Paris. The train slowed significantly on the westbound grade through CN Hardy, which was my saving grace. I figured I didn't have time to get to Paris West so I opted for a farm crossing at the end of Township Road 2. I got out of the car and crossed the track as the train rounded the slight curve at Paris West. I fired off a few photos, waited for the train to pass, hopped back into my car and made back to work and sat down at my desk at 1:00 p.m. on the nose. It sure wasn't the lowkey lunch hour I had anticipated! The ex. Citirail units seem to be showing up more regularly lately, providing a little bit of variety.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/23/2026
Location: Paris
Province: Ontario
Comments | 12 Favourites
On March break back in 1999 we caught CP 521 rolling through CN Bayview Jct. on the way to Toronto. Brother Greg must have been there because all the locomotive numbers were recorded, and I'm impressed that I managed to squeeze them all onto the slide mount. From front to back we have CP 5611, 5689, 5697, 5682, 5596, 5506, 5670 and 5608. It looks like they're all in CP action red with the exception of 5596 that is in CP Rail System paint.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/20/1999
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 25 Favourites
The OSR St. Thomas job passes through a winter landscape covered in hoar frost on the way to Putnam to work a few industries before continuing on to St. Thomas.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 02/13/2026
Location: Putnam
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 12 Favourites
Ontario Southland Railway 182 and 644 approach Domtar Line west of Beachville with a long string of racks for Cami in tow. Late January, 2026, OSRX 182 departed Salford for the last time enroute to it's new owner, the Chemin de fer Sartigan. Back in 2020 OSRX 644 and the other three M-420(W) were sold to the CFS also, so soon it may be possible to photograph these same two locomotives together again on the Sartigan in Quebec.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 09/12/2012
Location: Beachville
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
OSR 503 lets out a belch of black smoke as the Woodstock Job pulls off the CP Galt Sub. and in to the small yard in front of the CP Woodstock station (behind me).
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 09/30/2010
Location: Woodstock
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
The Ontario Southland Woodstock Job has made quick work of the interchange with CP and is now back on home rails heading west with a lengthy cut of autoracks for Cami in tow. All four of OSR's M420Ws were sold to the Sartigan Railway. In 2026, some additional MLWs currently on OSR's roster will soon be following the same path.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 12/28/2009
Location: Woodstock
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 15 Favourites
They're not F units, high nose GP7s, or MLWs, but a SW1200RSu and GP9u in matching OSR maroon and cream look a-ok in my books too. The beautiful Fall colours add nicely to the scene.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 10/15/2025
Location: Woodstock
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 17 Favourites
BNSF 2968 leads the CN Hamilton 06:00 job on their second trip down the N&NW Spur this morning with two gondolas for Triple M Metal by Parkdale Yard. The train is photographed at the CP diamond just west of Gage Avenue North.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 03/08/2025
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
After being assigned to Brantford for over a month, BNSF 2090 and CN 4910 were finally turned on CN 581 in Hamilton last night. This morning was the first opportunity to get a nice morning photo of BNSF 2090 in front of the station. Exactly one year ago to the day, there was a mob of railfans in Brantford to photograph green-BN painted BNSF 2098 leading CN 580. This morning was a lot more subdued, only myself and one other railfan present to capture the action. Not a bad way to start the work day, again!
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/05/2024
Location: Brantford
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 16 Favourites
A pair of GTW GP38-2s assigned to CN 580 likely won't attract as much attention as BNSF 2098 did last year, but considering blue GT units have rarely been assigned to Brantford, GTW 5849 is a-ok in my books. My meeting downtown couldn't have ended at a better time. 580's crew was making their last switching move assembling their train for Cainsville before taking a break in the office to warm up. It was a frigid morning, and as you can see by the cloud bank looming to the west, the sun didn't last too much longer. It's a beautiful thing when it all comes together.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/29/2024
Location: Brantford
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 15 Favourites
Steve's recent post of OSRX 1400 and Matthew Whiteley's subsequent comment that the unit last ran in the Summer of 2020 led me to look through my uploaded photos to see my shot of it. I came up empty. I don't know how you guys with over a thousand photos on here keep track of all of them. Anyway, here's the shot I was looking for, of Ontario Southland 1400 and 102 returning from Tillsonburg. They would do some work in Ingersoll before heading to St. Thomas with one tank car. I too encourage you to support the Via Historical Association (VHA) in their purchase and restoration of OSRX 1400 to VIA 6539 so I can relive my youth and see a blue/yellow VIA F-unit in action again! Can we also start a fund to acquire a MLW FPA-4 from someone? :)
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 08/14/2020
Location: Ingersoll
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
Ontario Northland 1603 has returned to Uxbridge on the first York-Durham Heritage Railway "Pumpkin Patch & Halloween Train" ride of the day. 1603 appears to be the only unit serviceable on the York-Durham; we were told by a volunteer that the YDHR's RS11 and two RS3s "are fried" and will be scrapped in the Spring. The town owns the station and yard property and wants the area cleaned up. I was later told the locomotives won't be scrapped, so time will tell. There's a lot to look at in this photo: Uxbridge was hit by a tornado in May, 2022 which damaged the station. The station building is closed awaiting repair, so the railway's gift shop is currently in the white tent to the left of the 1603. The pylon in the centre of the photo marks the location where the cab window is aligned to stop the train in the correct location. Passengers are off to the right picking out their pumpkin in the pumpkin patch, except the Mom and little girl who was so upset her face was as pink as her coat. I don't miss the days when my boys were that young!
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Tourist
Date: 10/28/2023
Location: Uxbridge
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
It's interesting, looking back through older photos, how quickly some can become nostalgic. This photo was taken in 2018, while wasting another lunch hour away at the station. An eastbound came into the viewfinder with two C-40-8 variants leading on a beautiful Fall day. Fast-forward to 2023, you'd be lucky to see a C40-8.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/30/2018
Location: Brantford
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 12 Favourites
CN L540's first work of the day was to take four empty gondolas down the Huron Park Spur to Triple M Metal on Balzer Rd. I followed in pursuit, but the sun angle was horrendous for BNSF 2090 leading back north so I decided to return to Kitchener Yard and wait for them to come back. They threw a wrench in to that plan when they stayed on the south track to go out to the P&H Shantz Station Terminal to reposition cars. By the time I got out to Shantz Station Rd. they were already done with the repositioning and were ready to head back to Kitchener. CN 7068 and BNSF 2090 are shown crossing over Shantz Station Rd. heading westbound back to Kitchener Yard.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/02/2023
Location: Breslau
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
It's hard to believe that BNSF 2098 has been assigned to Brantford for almost three months. Expecting it wouldn't be around long, on it's second day in Brantford I chased it to Hagersville and back on a rather soggy day. Clearly, I didn't have to. Originally paired with CN 9547, CN 4713 came and went, now it's working with CN 4791. By now, I'm sure nearly every railfan in Southern Ontario has gotten a photograph of it. Railfans from several States have also made the trek to Brantford to photograph the cascade green BNSF. My first photo of BNSF 2098 was on June 8 pulling out of yard trailing on CN 581, so I thought it was fitting to upload a considerably better photo of it doing exactly the same thing in much nicer conditions.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: BNSF
Date: 08/31/2023
Location: Brantford
Province: Ontario
11 Comments | 16 Favourites
VIA / SIXX test train with new Siemens equipment slows for a brief station stop in Brantford, passing the most photographed locomotive in southern Ontario. BNSF 2098 has been assigned to Brantford for over a month, and has attracted a lot of attention from the local railfan population. CN 4713 is now paired with BNSF 2098, replacing CN 9547.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 07/11/2023
Location: Brantford
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 21 Favourites
CN 580 slowly makes its way back to Brantford after doing the turn to Hagersville. BNSF 2098 didn't attract as much attention as expected today; the crummy weather likely played a factor. The Hagersville Sub. is currently all 10 MPH, so it's not difficult to get multiple photographs of the train. I'm sure the small group of foamers chasing the train provided entertainment for the crew on an otherwise mundane day.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/09/2023
Location: Cainsville
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 11 Favourites
BNSF 2098 replaced CN 4138 assigned to Brantford this afternoon, but unfortunately faced west, the same direction as CN 9547. The first order of business for the CN 581 crew was to run light to Parkdale to wye one of the units. The pair are seen departing the yard and crossing over to the south track to head east. It'll be interesting to see how long BNSF 2098 sticks around. I suspect the Hagersville Subdivision is going to be a popular railfan destination while it's here.
Name: Rob Smith
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/08/2023
Location: Brantford
Province: Ontario
9 Comments | 19 Favourites
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