The WC/ACR passenger operations were a fun way to spend a morning. Train 3 the tour train to Agawa Canyon departed the downtown station around 8AM and normally was near Heyden about 8:45 or so. It... (more)

A power swap at Gilchrist put this AC FP9 on the point of SOGBA for the rest of the trip into Gladstone. The freight crews lack of love for the elderly F's caused quite a discussion with the dispa... (more)

AC 184,104,205,203 are southbound on train 12 nearing Sault Ste. Marie with 63 cars.

With white flags flying in the cold winter air, AC 104 and 100 roll north near Searchmont with 80 cars.

ACR 159 rests in the dead line at Steelton after an encounter with a large truck in Sault Ste Marie almost 2 years earlier. The economic downturn of the early eighties was not kind to the ACR's tr... (more)

The lone ex CP unit out of former VIA F's that were bought for canyon service leads 25 carloads of tired happy leaf peepers south at Bellevue. From front to back are 1756,1751, 1754,1755,1753 with... (more)

AC 161 with chipped paint falling off, rests in the dead line. The 161 was one of the GP7's that ACR did not have rebuilt by either GMDD or CN and sat at Steelton out of service for a number of ye... (more)

ACR 167,204 are making the station stop at Searchmont on great late winter day. The train is 12 cars long and is no doubt swollen by the snow train cars that had been combined with Number 1 and ha... (more)

AC 1751 has Train 1 on the go near Bellevue, Ont during the summer of 96.

AC 1755 heads a nice looking train 1 north through the snow near Bellevue. The south end of the ACR had so much curvature that catching a train not on a curve was an effort. Normally trains 1 and ... (more)

Two AC F9s and a WC SDL39 hustle a train east towards Sault Sainte Marie on the old Soo Line across Upper Michigan. With less winter passenger service on the Algoma Central the Fs would often cros... (more)

Algoma Central is noted for the great scenery along the route and the fall colors. Early in the morning train 1 with 1752,1750, is just getting started on its all day trip to Hearst. The train has... (more)

ACR was in its last summer when I shot this GP7 set that had arrived from Hearst earlier in the day. The GP7's and GP38-2's tended to handle passenger trains and the Hawk Junction-Hearst freights,... (more)

Train time at Hawk Junction as AC 1753,1755,1756 arrive on train 2. The usual load of supplies and passengers are on hand to travel into the remote areas served by the ACR south of here.

On the WC just about anything was possible, if you waited around long enough. The ex VIA F's spent much of their spare time running in freight service between Sault, ONT. and Gladstone, MI. The we... (more)