Fantastic!

On this page you will find exceptional images the Railpictures.ca editors have deemed worth showcasing, whether it’s for artistic merit, fantastic content, or an overall great image. Congrats to all winners! For a different look at what is considered popular – See ‘top shots’ to see what the viewers liked and ‘my profile’ to see images with the most views.

Like these images? Give them some Gold. Click the below each image if you like them. If you do not see the , click here to register, it only takes 2 minutes.

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 | 31 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 | 25 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 | 21 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 | 37 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 | 15 Favourites

Speedy first generation MLW's:, not very often will a diesel action shot provide a sense of speed: At eighty miles per hour the centrifugal force is sufficent to slosh water out of the overflow pipes on all three units as FPA4 6787 heels to starboard on the sharp left high speed curve exiting Bowmanville mile 292.! <br><br>With the sense of speed portrayed - this shot ranks right up there in my top ten favourites ! <br><br>June 26, 1982 Kodachrome by S.Danko.<br><br>Same curve thirty one years later:<br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=8806"> 8938 west with IC 6016 </a>

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

7 Comments | 40 Favourites

Cruising northbound on a packed TTC CLRV streetcar, another Spadina car passes us heading south near Harbord with a gust of cool night air, on our trip north to Spadina Subway Station.

Name:	MrDanMofo
Railway:	Toronto Transit Co…
Date:	06/09/2011
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 6 Favourites

CN C772 is just about completed its cross country travel from the coal mines in northern Alberta to the coal terminal on the shore of Lake Superior. CN 2558 and CN 5800 guide the coal loads across the Jack Knife bridge while a flock of Canadian Geese take their morning bath in the Kaministiquia River.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/19/2008
Location:	Thunder Bay
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 19 Favourites

CN's Q198 rolls through a canola field on the east of Portage.

Name:	Paul Sincerny
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/08/2012
Location:	Portage La Prairie
Province:	Manitoba

1 Comments | 12 Favourites

GP9 8808 adjusts the barge slip by poling prior to loading its train onto the "Berry Ferry" for the ride to Rosebery and the isolated Nakusp Branch

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/25/1985
Location:	Slocan City
Province:	British Columbia

5 Comments | 78 Favourites

Westbound CP freight running along Kamloops Lake's south shore.

Name:	Peter Gloor
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/17/1988
Location:	Savona
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 26 Favourites

To the left a deadhead movement is heading downtown with RBRX 18523 (in a new completely grey paint scheme) in the lead. On the right, AMT train 191 makes its station stop at Montreal West before departing westwards, eventually to St-Jerome.

Name:	Michael Berry
Railway:	AMT
Date:	11/08/2012
Location:	Montreal West
Province:	Quebec

5 Comments | 9 Favourites

A railway that owned 51 diesel locomotives and where the daily freight trains have a 548 rail route mile run...(and is now gone...)<br><br>...today, August 2, 1982, the daily train is five hours into the 24 hour run to St. John's: Terra Transport #204 is at the Black Duck River bridge with five NF210's: TT#910 - TT#940 - TT#917 - TT#919 (CN noodle) - TT#918 (CN zebra) with eighty plus cars: a dimunitive railway? Hardly. <br><br>(what's interesting: some distance perspective, compare the Terra Transport Port-aux-Basque to St.John's: 548 rail route miles to the Windsor Ontario to Montreal Quebec: 558 CN rail route miles.)<br><br>More Terra Transport:<br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=7438"> Terra Transport #232 near Clarke's Beach </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6808"> Terra Transport #206 near Lockston </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6608"> Terra Transport power for #204, Port-aux-Basques </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6220"> TT #927, Port-aux-Basques </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6336"> TT #929, Corner Brook </a> <br><br>sdfourty.

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Terra Transport
Date:	08/02/1982
Location:	Black Duck
Province:	Newfoundland and …

5 Comments | 27 Favourites

CN 4138 workig it's way down Clarence street with 7 hoppers for Ingenia

Name:	James Gardiner
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	01/02/2013
Location:	Brantford
Province:	Ontario

7 Comments | 14 Favourites

◄1 234 5 ►