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Clearing away the trees from last nights ice storm.

Name:	Michael Da Costa
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	12/23/2013
Location:	Moffat
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 37 Favourites

Working the assistant-conductor position on this train also bringing the camera to work, GO 916 with a double set F59 sits outside the train shed on track number 3 awaiting to depart eastwards on time to Oshawa.

Name:	Michael Da Costa
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	10/12/2008
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Nothing says BC Rail like tough grades and remote country. Here is a view looking back as we head north from Taylor BC. Mile post 720 is on the opposite side of the unit, while mile 715 is at the curve just before the bridge over the Piece River, needless to say there are some steep grades in these 5 miles of former PGE track. Also worth mentioning is the remoteness of the area on the other side of the river (the south side). If you look to the right of the fire extinguisher symbol on the door of the unit you will notice a large break in the tree line, this is the gravel pit at Teko (around mile 713). To reach Teko by road from this same location one has to drive over 200km.

Name:	Matt Watson
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	05/06/2010
Location:	Taylor
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

<b>Lookin' Good Budd</b>. Built in 1958, this venerable Budd RDC1 has finished its work for the day and rests at Stuart Street Yard in Hamilton. The reflection was made possible due to some wet snow that fell overnight and accentuated with a wide lens.

Name:	Ryan Gaynor
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	11/27/2013
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 24 Favourites

Power off CP Boundary Subdivision wayfreight sits by the station at Grand Forks after making a Midway turn. In the morning it will head home to Nelson BC.

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/18/1985
Location:	Grand Forks
Province:	British Columbia

3 Comments | 15 Favourites

Nipawin SK has one heck of a bridge, too bad it sees so few trains. This was one of only four trains to use it in 2007, though reportedly in 2004 it wasn't used at all. I imagine it sees slightly more use now that CP has sold the line to a shortline called Torch River Rail.

Name:	Matt Watson
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/03/2007
Location:	Nipawin
Province:	Saskatchewan

3 Comments | 33 Favourites

The sun has come out, however the snow has yet to taper off as a storm off Georgian Bay moves on, revealing a winter wonderland at CN's Waubamik siding. Utilizing directional running rights over CN's Bala Sub, CP 220 cruises south behind an SD40-2F and five SD40-2's, with about 11 miles separating it from home rails of CP's Parry Sound Sub at Boyne. Of the locomotives powering this train, CP 9002, 5763, 5984, 5925, 6037 and 5966, only two, 5763 and 6037, as of November 6, 2013 are still listed on the active roster. Sadly, the 9002 was retired less than two years after this shot was taken. 1451hrs.

Name:	Mike Lockwood
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/03/2011
Location:	Waubamik
Province:	Ontario

7 Comments | 55 Favourites

Great Sandhills Railway B23-7 #4253 and a sister are a few miles out of Leader headed for the gas plant at McNeil Alberta. The haze in the air is from forest fires buring in Alberta and British Columbia

Name:	Trevor Sokolan
Railway:	Great Sandhills Ra…
Date:	08/20/2010
Location:	Leader
Province:	Saskatchewan

2 Comments | 8 Favourites

Lake Erie and Northern car 933 is shown coupled to two other cars at Port Dover station. The gentleman posed by 933 is a good friend of Mr. Hommerding, Jim Findlay of Hudson, Michigan, who attended the fantrip with Cecil and is seen snacking on an ice cream bar. <br><br>Car 933 would be a “protect service” car that was kept at the Port Dover Station to cover any needs of service. Port Dover was the south end of the LE&N line that started at the GRR-LE&N Galt Main Street station and ran 51 miles south to Port Dover. The station was built in 1947 to a CPR Station Plan, at Chapman and Main Street, Milepost 51.0 of the LE&N. It was sold in 1965 to CN, who later sold it to the local town. Today it is leased to a private firm, owned by the Norfolk Region and still exists today (though not like it looks in this 1950 photo!). <br><br> This series of photos were taken by a now-deceased friend, William Cecil Hommerding (who passed away in 1983). Another mutual (deceased) friend, Jim Findlay of Hudson, Michigan (pictured) accompanied Cecil on the trip. The Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse chapters of the NHRS did each run several one day trips over the entire near 69 mile GRR-LE&N line around when these photos were taken, always on a Sunday. This particular trip was by a group from Michigan who held a one day, full length of the line trip on April 30th 1950 using GRR car 842, as pictured in many of Cecil's images. Although both Cecil and Jim are now deceased, their photos live on! <br><br> (<i>* Editors note: we would like to thank Doug Leffler for sharing these excellent historical photographs of Cecil's with us, and George Roth for helping interpret much of the historical and contextual information depicted in these photos.</i>) <br><br> <i><u>Other photos from the fantrip:</u></i><br> Car 842 crossing the bridge at Waterford: <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10357"><b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10357</b></a><br> The fantrip at Kitchener: <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10681"><b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10681</b></a><br> The GRR's Preston Shops: <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10413"><b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10413</b></a><br> <br> <i>For more details on Cecil, see <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10297"><b>here</b></a>.</i>

Name:	Cecil Hommerding, c…
Railway:	Grand River Railwa…
Date:	04/30/1950
Location:	Port Dover
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 14 Favourites

On an extremely foggy evening, Via #2 has come to a brief stop at Flanigans well a switch is thrown, so Canadas premier passenger train can be routed through CNs Thornton Yard.

Name:	Christopher Wasney
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	01/01/2013
Location:	Surrey
Province:	British Columbia

5 Comments | 30 Favourites

This view pretty much sums up the Fort Nelson Sub, a 250 mile tunnel of trees !

Name:	Matt Watson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	12/07/2010
Location:	Elleh
Province:	British Columbia

7 Comments | 28 Favourites

Two of Montreal's finest: MLW Century 630M's coast downgrade - about to pass under the Stephenson Road / Lakeshore Road bridge CN Kingston mile 284.3....that curve was more super-elevated prior to the LRC's introduction !<br><br>To commemorate the 2013 CARM Convention ( August 9 to 11 ) in Port Hope please enjoy this April 1980 Kodachrome of a westbound (and now relatively rare) conventional CN freight – in two paint schemes - on the approach to the Clarke crossovers. <br><br>CN Century's 2036 and 2026, built 1967-8, and sisters were all gone by 1996, with nine sold to CB&CNSRy.<br><br>That is the CP Rail Lovekin siding – Belleville Sub mile 156.0 - in the left background and note how the land between was once farmed – a real challenge today to a get a clear shot of a westbound CPR !<br><br>April 1980 Kodachrome by S.Danko<br><br>More Stephenson Road bridge area action:<br><br><a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=8700"> two CP Toasters 9840 – 8919 </a> <br><br><a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=1849"> Via CN train #63 the Rapido </a> <br><br><a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=9108"> THE BRIDGE! </a> <br><br><a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=3101"> THE BRIDGE - repaired! </a> <br><br><a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=1568"> CN Newtonville </a>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/xx/1980
Location:	approach Newcastle
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 24 Favourites

The tail end of the Havelock Turn is barely off the bridge, and the bridgetenders are already at work opening the bridge for marine traffic.

Name:	Paul M Cordingley
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	28/01/2013
Location:	Peterborough
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 33 Favourites

Making its best impression of CP's Gap, Alberta, CN's Swan Landing, Alberta is host to CP Train 112-22 detouring on CN's Edson Sub due to multiple floods/washouts on CP's Laggan Sub. It's seen departing the siding after meeting CN's A411 and CP's 113, wrapping itself around Brule Lake.Community Response

Name:	Tim Stevens
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/23/2013
Location:	Brule
Province:	Alberta

5 Comments | 20 Favourites

Here we have my father's model of C&O 4175 on the hood of the nose of the real C&O 4175.The real 4175 is on the point of that day's DT41 (Buffalo to Detroit) on the C&O Canadian District Sub 1 mainline. DT41 is stopped in Harrow to lift the cars set out by Local 1 the night before in the passing siding. <br><br>My dad got to know all the crew quite well. He was already well into his 4th decade as a model railroader at this point and was known to local model railroaders as a great custom painter / detailer (for the era, mind you!). He made several Chessie models, including this one. Over time, he wrestled with perfecting the Chessie vermillion shade by making different mixes and applying it to the locos stopped in Harrow (with permission from the crew, who thought it was rather funny). He still has the bottle and detailed mix notes of what he settled on for Chessie vermillion paint and references it to this day when doing a Chessie paint job or touch up / fix. This model in particular was one of his earlier Chessie efforts, but one of the earlier more successful ones.<br><br>4175 was a regular for a while on DT41 and NI42, which is why my dad made a model of it, having snapped a few shots of it. It just so happened to be coming through that day, so he brought the model along with him on the chase to Harrow.<br><br>The real 4175 received two Chessie paint schemes. It wore some of the earliest Chessie paint on delivery as one of the earliest GP40-2s on the C&O. It received a Chessie repaint shortly after this photo was taken. Its new paint saw the Chess-C on the nose lowered out of the vermillion. It survived in its relatively new Chessie paint into the CSX era (with its new number of 6074) before getting a YN2 treatment and then later a dark future paint job, which it still wears to this day, still serving in the family of its original lineage.<br><br>The model is still around, but considering its age as an old "Atlas Growler" is more nostalgic shelf material than anything else now. My dad still works on building models and doing fresh paint schemes, but this one always holds a special spot in our memories.

Name:	Robert F. Swaddling
Railway:	Chesapeake and Ohi…
Date:	09/00/1983
Location:	Harrow, Ontario
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 26 Favourites

General freight 309 approaches the east switch to Ashcroft BC in the semi arid Thompson River valley. CP main is on opposite bank. Shared trackage starts about 10 miles west of here

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/16/2010
Location:	Ashcroft
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 8 Favourites

Kettle Falls International Railway a division of Omnitrax operates former BN nee GN lines north of Spokane and into Canada at Grand Forks and stub of former line to Nelson to serve a reload for Cominco-Tech smelter at Trail. The northbound from HQ at Kettle falls has just cleared customs, the border station is behind the trees, and crosses the Pend Oreille River at its confluence with the Columbia.

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Kettle Falls Inter…
Date:	10/09/2008
Location:	Waneta
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 12 Favourites

One of my favourites: Modern verses Historic: VIA Rail #67 is Turbo equipped today as the train cruises past the Port Hope station built 1856 by the Grand Trunk Railway. The CN freight shed is right behind the lead power unit. Note the interchange track in the foreground. At the middle left is CP Rail's Belleville Sub bridge over the Ganaraska River. Construction in the background is the infamous Eldorado Nuclear factory facilities (now owned and operated by Camenco ). Of course today a lot of what is in this image is also History. June 26, 1982 Kodachrome by S. Danko.<br><br>More Port Hope Station:<br><br><a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=2116"> CN time at Port Hope </a> <br><br>More Turbo:<br><br><a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6555"> near Scarborough </a>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	06/26/1982
Location:	Port Hope
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 35 Favourites

Focusing in on the smaller details, an old CNR lock provides a nice juxtaposition to CN 2100 (née CNW 8553) which it sat on the Fort Erie shop track all day due to a boxcar with a bad-order.

Name:	Ryan Gaynor
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/27/2013
Location:	Fort Erie
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 9 Favourites

In this bucolic scene TTC 412, with its headlight lens swinging in the breeze, is southbound for Toronto immediately north of Centre Street in Thornhill. Motor car traffic does not seem to be a problem on this Wednesday afternoon. Down in the valley behind 412 two golf courses were, and still are, located on either side of Yonge Street. Apart from the widening of the road to four clogged lanes, this scene is not all that different today. Closure of the North Yonge line came only four days after the photo was taken.

Name:	Julian Bernard
Railway:	Toronto Transporta…
Date:	10/06/1948
Location:	Thornhill
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 14 Favourites

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