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CN5466 with CN8825 and NS9297 shift back into the Sarnia yard at Blackwell Road.

Name:	Marc Dease
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/31/2014
Location:	Sarnia
Province:	Ontario

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There are limited places in Southern Ontario where mainlines parallel busy roadways for several miles, however Highway 7 between Acton and Guelph is not one of them. The Guelph Subdivision runs beside the highway for many kilometers and has some interesting views. However, currently with only a limited amount of CN daylight freight movements in this section, GO and VIA Rail trains are now the main players.

Photographed leaning out the window of a moving car, Goderich-Exeter Railway (GEXR) 3054 is seen overtaking traffic on Highway 7 as it leads 431 into Guelph on a warm summer afternoon.

Name:	Jason Noe
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	06/03/2018
Location:	East Of Guelph
Province:	Ontario

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By a cloudy day, AMT #1203 rolls over the highway 640 at Lachenaie QC, on the AMT Mascouche Subdivision. At this place, the train will rolls in the middle of the highway 640.

Name:	Nicolas Houde
Railway:	AMT
Date:	12/16/2014
Location:	Lachenaie
Province:	Quebec

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Built in 1957, FP9A is shown near Moosomin, Saskatchewan.
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Special thanks to SB for a great road trip!

Name:	Peter Newman
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	06/14/1983
Location:	Moosomin
Province:	Saskatchewan

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In the Spring of 1958, Canadian National Railways’ transition of its locomotive roster from steam to diesel-electric is nearing completion. Inasmuch as steam’s final scheduled run on the CNR won’t occur for another two years, on the company’s transcontinental Beachburg and Alderdale Subdivisions between Ottawa, North Bay and Capreol Ontario, the torch is being passed to the next generation of motive power. With GMD-built FP9A and F9B units well established in passenger service on the Super Continental and the Continental for the past three years, it’s now time for regular freight service through the Upper Ottawa Valley to experience a similar transition, with mainline 2-8-2 Mikado, 2-10-2 Santa Fe, 4-8-2 Mountain and 4-8-4 Northern “Type” steam power yielding the hi-iron to modern and more efficient GMD F7A & GP9, MLW FA-1, RS-3 & RS-18, and CLC (Fairbanks-Morse designed) CFA16-4, CFB16-4, & H16-44 diesel-electric engines.
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On May 27, 1958, at Pembroke, Ontario, railway enthusiast and avid photographer Stephan Delmonte “Del” Rosamond is on hand to witness and photo-archive Valley railway history in the making, as Class U-2-e “Northern Type” 4-8-4 engine CN 6179 becomes the last steam locomotive to work through Pembroke in regular freight service over CN Lines. Engine 6179 is the last of an order of fifteen Northerns built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1940. Sadly the locomotive would be scrapped at the London Reclamation Yard later the same year on the 7th of November, not much more than five months after Del witnessed the engine’s final passage through the Valley.
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The train is operating in the eastward direction towards Ottawa, and is viewed from an elevated walkway located part way up the coaling tower. Given the presence in the consist of flatcar loaded Model CD-52 transit buses, produced by Canadian Car & Foundry (CC&F) in Fort William for the City of Montreal, the movement likely originated at Port Arthur as Train No. 408.
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The depot seen in the picture, for many years, displayed a station name board which read “Pembroke Jct”. At some point, following the October 1956 termination of regular passenger service on the 21.1 mile Locksley Subdivision between the downtown “Pembroke” station and the hamlet of Golden Lake, the name board on the outer station was changed to “Pembroke”. The location likely owed its “Pembroke Jct” distinction to the fact that a connecting track - seen diverging from the main line just west of the station - tied the former Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) Pembroke Subdivision with former Pembroke Southern Railway trackage at National Jct. a short distance away and less than a mile from the end of track in downtown Pembroke. Inasmuch as everything was rolled into Canadian National Railways in 1923, the “Jct” component on the name board was retained for another three-and-a half decades. In Del’s photograph, the Locksley Subdivision’s main track can be seen in the distance on embankment near the Muskrat River beneath the steel trestle at the rear of the freight train. It would be abandoned in the Fall of 1960.
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By 1963, with the regular service steam-era officially ended on the CNR Lines three years earlier, the water tank seen in Del’s photograph had been demolished, along with the coal tower upon which Del stood to compose his picture. In the summer of 1965 the wood-frame station building was demolished and replaced by a modern single-story brick structure that survived until the late 1990s. Today (summer of 2018), other than the distant steel trestle which stands devoid of rail, nothing of a railway nature remains where Stephan “Del” Rosamond once bid adieu to mainline steam in the ‘Heart of the Upper Ottawa Valley’.
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Name:	Del Rosamond
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/27/1958
Location:	Pembroke
Province:	Ontario

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The winter of 1980-81 is over and once again a bright spring day draws us to Bayview. Our patience is rewarded as the Starlight comes around the curve with an interesting consist bound for the TH&B's Abereen yard in Hamilton. Behind CP SD40-2 road units 5935 and 5752, we have RS23 8023, GP7 76, SW1200RS 8157 and another TH&B GP7 returning from servicing at Toronto Yard.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/00/1981
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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CP 519 with GP9u 8208 South on at Stoney Creek.

Name:	Paul Chapman Photo,…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/01/1991
Location:	Stoney Creek
Province:	Ontario

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It was a cloudy day for the most part on the holiday Monday, but a few sucker holes opened up allowing for some sun in the shots. I happened to get some sun for 421 shortly after it pulled into Port Rob, but I am not posting this shot for what's in the sun. I am posting it for what's trailing in the shadows, taking one of their final rides. In the background you can see some of the string of the 43 old 3800 cubic foot CN cylindrical hoppers that came in on 421, destined for scrap. They are being interchanged with Trillium and will be taken to SLM to be cut up. When all is said and done, nearly 400 of them will be scrapped down here. There are quite a few scattered throughout Trillium's yards already. Could make for some interesting shots on 562 as they are being interchanged, or on Trillium as they are being moved. Hopefully someone more local can catch the movements.

Name:	James Knott
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/20/2019
Location:	Port Robinson
Province:	Ontario

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Ah, the colours of autumn... yellow, orange, red, green, and... blue? A break in the clouds allows the sun to light up CMQ 3816 as it idles in the west yard at Smiths Falls. The more typical local power - 2252 and 3100 - was tucked behind a string of tank cars.

Although this unit has been rebuilt internally and is now considered a GP38-3M, it was still very nice to see what is outwardly a GP35 working for CP in 2020. CP disposed of its fleet of GP35s over 20 years ago.

Name:	Jakob Mueller
Railway:	Central Maine and …
Date:	10/24/2020
Location:	Smiths Falls
Province:	Ontario

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VIA 24 for Quebec City is passing Wellington tower and over the frozen Lachine canal.

Name:	Michael Berry
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	03/11/2016
Location:	Montreal
Province:	Quebec

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I'm out on that little walkbridge at mile 1, Dundas Sub. The routine for the steel train #725 (to Nanticoke) was to enter the Dundas sub off the Cowpath out of Hamilton and head west on the north track. Well, to my disappointment, it ran on the south; and also a GP9 trailing. I guess the usual third member of the A-B-A set must have been ailing (#9177). So we end up with A-B-GP; CN 9166, 9195 and 4572. Still, a welcome shot. The good days for the Nanticoke train must have been coming to a close because the next day 4520 subbed for the 9195. Fun while it lasted. Image: Speed Graphic 4x5 inch T-Max 400 B/W film shot at 200 f11.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/08/1986
Location:	Dundas
Province:	Ontario

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CN 384 eases off the Dundas Sub and throttles up for their climb towards Aldershot with CN 8804, CN 2447 and CN 1394 providing the power. CN 1394 is an SW1200RS painted yellow, without any CN markings on it; the unit spent several months in Chicago and has returned to Mac Yard.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/16/2015
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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ES44Ac CP 8748 makes it's way west on a snowy Scotford Sub.

Name:	colin arnot
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	2020/03/10
Location:	Elk Island
Province:	Alberta

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An eastbound wood products train is at the west switch of Glenogle, a few miles east of Golden BC. Water levels in the Kicking Horse River are still quite low, an indication that not much snow is melting in mid April.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/12/1986
Location:	Golden
Province:	British Columbia

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Little VIA 6907 is headed east towards Toronto on the day of the attached photograph.

The area around the CN station is where I grew up in so for the last 75 years or so I have keeping an eye all the changes, and there have been lots of them. Gone are the steam & electric locomotives that serviced CN & L&PS areas. Gone are the NYC & Pennsylvania passenger cars that occasionally stopped there. No more coal yard serviced by the L&PS, Stations that have been removed and or replaced.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	07-22-1984
Location:	London
Province:	Ontario

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CN 4904 & CN 7060 are leading a long transfer out of the Port of Montreal as it passes the Bonsecours Market.

Name:	Michael Berry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/28/2022
Location:	Montreal
Province:	Quebec

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