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Wow, it's hard to believe this was already over two years ago. I thought I'd post this frame as it's finally been confirmed that BNSF 2098 (now CN 4957) has been repainted into CN colours after being purchased a year or so ago by CN following a lengthy stay on horsepower hours. Here it is while under assignment to Brantford back in June 2023, taking the lead of L581 as they begin heading back home after working some industries on the glass lead in Milton; a task normally completed by L551. The sun was just setting over the horizon and due to the cloud cover in the area it illuminated the sky above in a mixture of pink & purple, to this day I'm not sure I can recall such a dramatic scene while trackside and I feel it really gives this shot an extra punch. The 2098 as well as a decent bunch of other BNSF geeps were lent to CN by BNSF for the supposed reasoning of repaying horsepower hours back around the springtime of 2023. Normally horsepower hours are repaid between the class 1s with standard road power, but CN being desperate for 4-axles since the retirement of the GMD-1s as well as the GP9s getting older and weaker lead to them doing this unconventional method. It appears that most units BNSF lent were serviceable engines that would otherwise be in storage due to a surplus of 4-axle power within their own network, so eventually CN was able to purchase most of the engines they were currently "borrowing". As of 2025, some are still roaming around with their BNSF identities fully intact, some have been patched out, and others sent to shops for overhauls and repaints, which was unfortunately the case with the 2098. Initially I was hoping for a patch job that would leave the stripes on the nose intact, but no such luck. With that being said, hopefully you enjoy what was probably the best shot I managed of this guy before it's makeover.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/12/2023
Location: Milton
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 19 Favourites
VIA 6449 leads a push-pull set of 8 LRC cars on train 75 as they duck under the signal bridge at Paris West in some nice evening light.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 06/11/2025
Location: Paris
Province: Ontario
Comments | 13 Favourites
On a quite chilly, overcast summer afternoon, CP 231 motors westbound through a beautiful rock cut near the small township of Christie Lake, Ontario. At first glance you'd expect a photo like this to be from the Muskoka area, but the eastern leg the Belleville Sub finds itself in some equally breathtaking scenery for a little while as it takes a more northern path compared to the Kingston sub enroute to Montreal.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/19/2024
Location: Christie Lake
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 15 Favourites
<a href ="https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=56067">An incredible image taken in 1979 by John Freyseng</a> inspired me to reach into my own archive and pull up this image from only a couple years ago, taken in the exact same spot. Above, CP 421 has a trio of engines up front as it heads west through Rosedale/Summerhill on a nice July afternoon. Aside from the signals being changed from an interlocking to a pair of intermediates in the early 80s as well as the service track on the south side being removed, the location hasn't changed all that much in the 40+ years that separates the two images. Unfortunately, fast forwarding to the present day will open up a big change, as in April 2024 the signal bridge (along with every other searchlight on the North Toronto) was torn down. I'm glad to have documented it while I had time, and very grateful for those who were doing it in the decades before me.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/11/2022
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 10 Favourites
A good ol' candy apple red AC44 on a gorgeous sunny day leading east on the Belleville? I'll chase that any day. CP 9772 East is in charge of train 118 as it rips into the curve approaching Lovekin where they'll meet a westbound empty grainer taking the siding for them. The leader here has seen better days for sure, but the red paint is holding through quite nicely after over 20 years in service.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/04/2025
Location: Newcastle
Province: Ontario
Comments | 12 Favourites
In November a pair of SD40s came down into the GTA on a loaded rail train, and after returning to Toronto Yard from a stint of rail dropping on the Galt Sub, I was anticipating the pair would take at least one spin on the H17/H19 loop. Sure enough, this H19 provided with 6011 taking the lead here at mile 184 of the Belleville Sub. 11/28/2024
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/28/2024
Location: Ajax
Province: Ontario
Comments | 13 Favourites
It's been a couple months since a train of high interest for me has run south on the Mactier, but opportunity finally arose in the form of CP 3082 South hauling a half-loaded CWR train bound for Toronto. I must say this geep looks damn good, possibly the best looking CP one I've shot throughout my time foaming. Freshly repainted, nice numberboards, and class lights intact. Seen here passing by the Old Second Road crossing just south of Craighurst with some nice colour on the trees above.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/22/2024
Location: Craighurst
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 15 Favourites
My biggest complaint about the North Toronto in the spring / summer months was how often evening light went to waste due to the lack of westbounds after 421/101. On most days, 101 would pass around 5pm and the NT would sit vacant of any westbounds until dusk or after dark when H17 would make an appearance around 9 or later. A common theme for myself was watching the monitor like a hawk to see if something got lined out of Agincourt behind 101, as almost always it would end up being something cool / unusual, like this train seen above here. Former SOO SD60 no. 6236 takes the solo lead of a 2-H88 with a healthy cut of traffic for Wolverton & London behind them, mostly consisting of empty auto racks. Above you'll see how I wrote in past-tense almost as if the line has been abandoned or something, which is admittedly not the case. But with every searchlight removed over the course of a couple days last month and shots like the one above no longer possible, the attraction & charm of the North Toronto Sub is undoubtedly diminished, if not eliminated entirely depending on who you ask. With all that being said, I'm appreciative of the opportunities I had to shoot these classic relics, especially with unusual movements like this one. Thanks for all the memories Bartlett Ave, I could write a whole other paragraph about the time spent at this spot alone, but I'll save that for a later date. Thanks for reading.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/09/2022
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 12 Favourites
On a gorgeous July evening, CP 6011 leads loaded ballast train GPS-14 through the causeway at the north end of Long Lake in Bala, ONT. Making pretty good time from a noon departure at Cartier, they're doing every bit of track speed to get to Buckskin to meet northbound manifest train #421.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/15/2024
Location: Bala
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 22 Favourites
CP H55 has an attractive lashup of an SD40-2 & SD60M as they pass a cool little trackside pond at the Sprecher Mileboard on the Cartier Sub. Once clear the main and into the spur they'd detach from their loaded nickel ore cars and leave them for VALE to take at some point later on.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/25/2023
Location: Greater Sudbury
Province: Ontario
Comments | 16 Favourites
A beautiful Monday evening finds HCRY 914 with a pretty sweet lashup, a 4 pack of EMDs (three if you don’t consider the slug) take care of around 65 cars on the former CP Webbwood Sub into the evening sun with freight bound for Sault Ste. Marie as well as a few industries along the line.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Huron Central Rail…
Date: 06/24/2024
Location: Greater Sudbury
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 24 Favourites
The depressing mood of a dark, gloomy afternoon was improved slightly when I saw this power on 421 round the bend, Navy tribute 7022 takes the lead with an equally-as-clean golden beaver ACU in the trailing position.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 01/05/2023
Location: Toronto - Rosedale
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 10 Favourites
HCRY 3409 West approaches mile 10 of the former CP Webbwood Subdivision on a dull October day in the Greater Sudbury Area.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Huron Central Rail…
Date: 10/13/2021
Location: Lively
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
A troubled CP 420 passes through one of the few remaining cornfields left in the fast-growing urban hellscape known as Vaughan. The conductor on this train apparently had thrown his knee out from some slack at Bolton and would need to be picked up by an ambulance before the train made it to Toronto.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/23/2022
Location: Vaughan
Province: Ontario
Comments | 6 Favourites
CP 421-10 has a 4-unit lashup and is seen here passing mile 4 of the MacTier Sub in some nice golden light.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/10/2022
Location: Toronto - Weston
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
Through some sweet evening light, a pair of Multimark SD40-2s lead train 2BAL-24 as they head westbound from Portage La Prairie making a beeline for Brandon, MB. Coming out to Manitoba, work trains like this are exactly what I was hoping to catch, partly because of the scenery but mainly because of the lack of such trains in the Toronto area this year.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/24/2022
Location: Portage La Prairie
Province: Manitoba
2 Comments | 18 Favourites
The 0700 has just finished grabbing some coil cars at Stelco and are passing MANA on their way back to the N&NW spur.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/02/2022
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 17 Favourites
A pair of venerable F59PHs push 12 cars by Stuart Yard on the way to Niagara Falls
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 08/27/2022
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 14 Favourites
On a hot afternoon, CP 5989 leads a CWR train southbound on the Hamilton Sub preparing to dump a couple rails around Desjardins.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/03/2022
Location: Waterdown
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
ONR Extra Train 999 (running under the ID CN P30031 19) is on extremely rare mileage for any sort of ONR equipment as it makes it's way westbound on the CN Halton Sub bound for Port Colborne, where it will act as a prop in the filming of "The Handmaid's Tale".
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 07/19/2022
Location: Stewarttown
Province: Ontario
11 Comments | 12 Favourites
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