After the WC bought up the ACR these Ex VIA F's were brought on board for passenger service to free up the ACR GP38-2's for freight work. Things didn't always work out that way and the while the F... (more)

Passing a stand of colorful leaf trees, train 1 is making its way north on a late September morning in 1997. F's 1752 and 1750 are trailed by a couple leased VIA coaches and a rather scrambled up ... (more)

On a bright winter evening AC 1751,1750,1756,1755 head a northbound extra near the south siding switch at Wabos. On the Searchmont highway Wabos was about as far as plowed roads allowed one to get... (more)

Back in our favourite "camp", the Canyon View Camp Car in the Agawa Canyon, we had the most beautiful weather imaginable for the entire week! Just ten days before our arrival the entire park was f... (more)

A call the previous evening had alerted us to this train being powered by a pair of F's. The F's had languished in storage most of the summer and were supposedly not to be ran again. Somehow this ... (more)

A rare sight in the late 90's was a FP9 leading a freight train. The ACR group of 7 A's and 2 B-units often found themselves in freight service during periods of slack passenger service on the ACR... (more)

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.