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VIA #1 The Canadian is stopped at the station in Banff Alberta

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	03/23/1984
Location:	Banff
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 11 Favourites

I remember when the F59's were boring. They still are, but less so than the MP40's that have largely replaced them. Two holdouts, bobtailed 561 and 562 power a westbound train through Pickering, Ontario. 1303hrs.

Name:	Mike Lockwood
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	10/30/2012
Location:	Pickering
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 14 Favourites

In its last days, the northbound Northlander crosses the large bridge just east of the yard in Englehart.

Name:	John Ryan
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	09/26/2012
Location:	Englehart
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 12 Favourites

Today's 595, a "one car wonder" on return from Longford Mills, passes some of the colorful fall foliage that makes the Muskoka area a magnet for tourists from all over the world at this time of year.Too bad we don't have a passenger train to bring them here anymore! :(

Name:	Wayne Shaw
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/04/2012
Location:	Huntsville
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 48 Favourites

A sunny, bright September 21, 2006 early morning and a dense fog/mist rises from Mud Lake. CP #152 with 5949 & 5696 heads into the abyss onto Mud Lake Trestle , mp 27.4 of the Belleville Sub

Name:	John Soehner
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/21/2006
Location:	Feldspar
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 12 Favourites

CN 8839 with the 6018 and 8808 lead a northbound train at mile 22.7 on the CP's Parry Sound Sub September 26, 2008.

Name:	Earl Minnis
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/26/2008
Location:	Parry Sound
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 9 Favourites

On the afternoon of July 9, 2011, we were witness to an extraordinary event involving the crew of CP 8772, the RCMP and the paramedics based in Ashcroft, BC. A woman had fallen off a rather steep incline above the Thompson River, onto the roadbed and was severely injured. Happening on the scene was the crew of a wesbound manifest who managed to stop in time to render assistance. The RTC contacted the authorities and made arrangements for the crew to meet the emergency personnel approx. 1 mile west of the accident scene. After cutting the units from the train, the headend power shuttled the RCMP and paramedics to the location. After stabilizing the patient the entire party was transported on the rear unit to an area in order for the patient to be airlifted from the scene. The crew later received commendations and the story was featured on the company intranet news. The professionalism on the part of all concerned was second to none.

Name:	Deane Motis
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/09/2011
Location:	Spences Bridge
Province:	British Columbia

6 Comments | 33 Favourites

Name:	Carsten Frank
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	07/02/2012
Location:	Moosonee
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 10 Favourites

CP 245 highballs through Wolverton as the Pender Jobs waits to finish their work.

Name:	RLHH3403
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/15/2012
Location:	Ayr
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 22 Favourites

Remarks: Train 204, the mainline freight from Port-aux-Basques (ferry terminal and yard on the southwest coast) to St. John's, approaches Goobies in a cloud of brake shoe smoke (there were no dynamic brakes in Newfoundland). Note the agent looking out the window at the arriving train. Goobies was on CN's St. John's Subdivision, 20.9 miles east of Clarenville.

Name:	Joe McMillan
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/29/1980
Location:	Goobies
Province:	Newfoundland and …

6 Comments | 27 Favourites

On one of the few sunny days during the summer of '03 the Polar Bear Express is headed northwards. This is about 5 miles north of town.

Name:	Ted Ellis
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	07/24/2003
Location:	Cochrane
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 24 Favourites

The moon sets over the Canadian Rockies at sunrise on September 22, 2002, at the Royal Canadian Pacific excursion train heads eastbound at Lundbreck, Alberta.

Name:	Mike Danneman
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/22/2002
Location:	Lundbreck
Province:	Alberta

5 Comments | 34 Favourites

Along the shores of Lake Superior's Nipigon Bay, CP 8806 heads westward through the curves at mile 27 on the CP's Nipigon Sub.

Name:	Earl Minnis
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/09/2010
Location:	Cavers
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 30 Favourites

CN M303 from Toronto to Prince George heads westbound towards Jasper

Name:	Chris Wilson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/29/2009
Location:	Jasper
Province:	Alberta

1 Comments | 7 Favourites

The undercarriage of the 6947, a Montreal Locomotive Works 0-8-0 Blt. in 1908 and seen here at the Sandon Historical Society museum.

Name:	Joe Harrison
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	00/00/2007
Location:	Sandon
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 7 Favourites

Westbound through the Skoona Tunnels at Seddall on the CN Ashcroft Sub. Both CN and CP use this trackage. I had no scanner at the time so had no idea which line was running. ISO 100 / 75 mm / 30 sec. / f5.6

Name:	Joe Harrison
Railway:	Other
Date:	09/15/2008
Location:	Seddall - CN Ashcr…
Province:	British Columbia

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Ontario Southland's Montreal Locmotive Works RS23 504's reverser key is in the forward position, but is nowhere near the 75 MPH maximum limit as the warning plate indicates..

Name:	Stephen C. Host
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	08/02/2010
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 6 Favourites

The conductor of the second OSR job watches the power go by after lining the switch into the shop house for storage.

Name:	Michael Da Costa
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	02/09/2011
Location:	Campbellville
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 4 Favourites

Name:	William D. Miller
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/23/06
Location:	Newtonville
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 33 Favourites

$Over the years VIA Rail attempted several transcontinental train combinations, all with cost savings in mind. The first major change occurred after the late summer 1978 take over of CP Rail passenger service. Via initially settled on the ex CP Rail The Canadian equipment to operate on CP track to/from Montreal through Sudbury, Calgary, Banff to Vancouver and the ex CN Super Continental equipment to operate on CN to/from Toronto via Capreol, Sioux Lookout, Edmonton, Jasper to Vancouver. So witness here the passenger equipment transition to the arrangement as described above: a late and rather under powered Via CP train #12 coming off the Galt Subdivision ( the Mactier Subdivision ends at West Toronto) at Cabin D ( west of Bathurst Street) with CP Rail power (8529 -8423; a GP9 – RS10 ) and (ex CN) Super Continental equipment – all fourteen cars! Presumably this equipment operated on CP through from Winnipeg, the closest CP-CN passenger interchange location. Perhaps CP Rail\'s input on this avoided placing the ex CP passenger 1400 series locomotives ( FP7A / 9 A\'s) to pull the ex CN equipment on CP! And yes that is the on time – 8:35 p.m. Union arrival time - Buffalo Budds Via CP Rail train # 322 ( RDC-3\'s #9023 and 9024) being held for the four plus hour late #12. The time of this negative exposure is 8:30 p.m. on Sunday June 17 (Fathers Day) *:30 PM, the available light was very poor and add to that this is Kodak TriX 400 ASA pan film – hence please accept (excuse if you will) this unique full frame, low contrast and somewhat grainy exposure (the latter the train is the longer you wait!). It would be some six plus years before Toronto would see the ex CPR Budd equipment again. Kodak Tri X Pan b&w negative film. Photographer S.Danko.$

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/17/1979
Location:	Cabin D, Toronto
Province:	Ontario

8 Comments | 34 Favourites

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