The hostler is backing an FP7A and a leased BAR GP-7 into the St. Luc Yard roundhouse. St. Luc's 37 stall roundhouse was the last one built in Canada, opened in 1950 as part of CP's then new St. ... (more)

From one of my favorite snowy trips, let’s return to Tuesday, February 16, 1993. The vintage Canadian National Railway Company electric equipment was all on borrowed time in Montreal, Quebec as ... (more)

The two six-axle units are slowing their train as they head downgrade to Ballantyne where they will enter Montreal Yard.

A tired looking FP7A leads a short "Atlantic Limited" across the St. Lawrence River for the final miles into Montreal from Saint John, NB.

The local is working the small Atwater Transfer Yard on the north bank of the Lachine Canal. The swing bridge that carries the CP's busy Adirondack Sub. over the Lachine Canal is out of service a... (more)

CN Turbo set 129 enters Montreal Central Station trainshed for a late-afternoon departure for Toronto on August 19, 1970

A one of a kind. Montreal Locomotive Works outshopped CP 4744 in May 1971 as a demonstrator. It was rated at 4,000 H.P. and was essentially an M-636 but with an 18 cylinder instead of a 16 cyli... (more)

Two C-424's grind up the grade under the pedestrian overpass leading to the CP Lachine commuter station. Westbound freights leaving Montreal Yard always put on a good show accelerating up the gra... (more)

Canadian National CLC (FM) CFA16-4 9322, MLW RS-3 3040 and CLC (FM) H16-44 2213 at CN Montreal Yard, Lachine, Quebec on June 19, 1968. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed... (more)

Fortunately, there are no commuters on the station platform as two M636's and a FA-2 lay down a heavy smoke screen as they accelerate their train westbound out of St. Luc Yard.

The setting sun is making long shadows as a transfer from St. Luc Yard to Lasalle crosses the Lachine Canal Swing Bridge. There is no longer a need for a bridge tender as the canal closed to comm... (more)

Having finished working the North Canal Bank Branch and Lasalle Yard this local switch crew has reversed out of Lasalle Yard onto the St. Lawrence River Bridge and now heads for St. Luc Yard.

A local switcher job moves off the main track and into the small yard at St. Henri. It will then reverse onto the West Side Canal Bank Track to service a number of industries.

One of CN's two GP-35's leads a westbound freight out of Montreal Yard (now Taschereau Yard) and up the short grade at Lachine. This grade is the result of a new track alignment that was built as... (more)

A westbound passenger train destined for Toronto comes off the Lachine Canal swing bridge and crosses St. Ambroise Street. The swing bridge would no longer be needed as the Lachine Canal was clos... (more)