Back in the days before it became a national park with rangers ensuring your eternal safety, one could access the backside, the outer portion of the Horseshoe Curve. Doing so in August of 1986 en... (more)

Grinding westbound up the Niagara Escarpment grade toward Guelph Junction, CP 501 is lead by SD40-2 5848 with three M-636's in numerical sequence 4712, 4713 and 4714. They have just received by r... (more)

CN 369 lifts cars from Belleville yard with the three Agawa Canyon Tour F40PHRs dead in tow. The three F40PHRs are enroute to destination unknown, since the Tour Train may be cancelled this year.... (more)

The Northern Pacific Woodinville Sub/Branch is gone, the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train is gone and while the Wilburton Trestle on the ex-NP Woodinville Sub may stand, it sees no traffic now at... (more)

The Northern Pacific Woodinville Sub/Branch is gone from here, the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train is gone, but back in 1993 a Brunch Train operated north from Renton to Woodinville, WA with a p... (more)

CPR 143 has been re-crewed at 'The Falls' coming from Montreal and patiently awaits departure. 143 will proceed west to Toronto across the Belleville Sub once VIA 59 from Ottawa, enroute to Toron... (more)

Yakima Valley Transportation's "A" Car, a 1909 porduct, performs some street running, returning from a local set out of some work equipment in downtown Yakima, WA. Clearly, movement of ... (more)

3 F40PH's shove Amtrak's Coast Starlight out of the Amtrak yard in downtown Seattle toward King Street Station in this vintage shot showing the old Kingdome and the Space Needle in the distance.

John Street roundhouse was once a major CPR facility for servicing in downtown Toronto near the waterfront. Gradually, it lost it significance once Toronto Yard was built and VIA constructed it's... (more)

CN 387 running west between St. Catherines and Hamilton, ON hit an open switch that had been tampered with by vandals. 387 lead by a CN 9404, 4523, 4524 and 4573 hit the switch and derailed pilin... (more)

Is it real or is this a model? UP 3499 and sister SD40-2 head west through the Feather River Canyon leaving the Keddie Wye behind them, in less than perfect lighting conditions.

The one and only RSD17. Constructed by MLW in 1957, she was initially demonstrated on the CNR (r/n 3899), PGE (r/n 624) and finally the CPR where she found her home in 1959 until retirement in 19... (more)

Needing an extra 1200 ponies to get to Oakville, CP added another SW1200RS to the usual pair of 8100s. The 2nd Oakville is seen charging through Clarkson Ontario enroute to the Ford Plant at Oakv... (more)

Sperry Rail Service (SRS) 138, one of their fleet of ultrasonic railflaw detection (UFD) cars proceeds west out of Georgetown at Silver and heads southwest working on the Halton Sub. Silver is th... (more)

With a complete train (they didn't have to fill out at Lambton Yard), a CP westbound heads for London on the Galt Sub with an M630 and GMD GP35 5012 on a stormy looking March day back in '79.