Mt. McKay looks on in the background as hotshot 101 charges westbound out of Thunder Bay and into the setting sun.

The afternoon Port Arthur yard job switches grain empties under Central Ave along the Thunder Bay waterfront.

CP 101 arrives in Thunder Bay and reflects nicely in a large puddle of spring runoff.

Hotshot 113 blasts through the former siding location of Navilus kicking up freshly fallen leaves in its path. In 2018 along with upgrading the CTC, CP eliminated 5 signalled sidings on the Nipigo... (more)

The Kaministquia River valley makes up the backdrop as CP 113 takes a short break from its 50 mile climb to Raith. It is about to pass under Hwy 102 while simultaneously crossing over the Kam Rive... (more)

Small train, big country. An SD40-2 assigned to CP's weed sprayer train rockets up the slight grade westbound along the more tangent portion of the Nipigon Subdivision and is approaching Hurkett.

CP 7022 and CMQ 1002 leave the grain elevators of Westfort in the distance beginning their trek across the Kaministiquia Subdivision with 113’s train in tow. Afternoon box train can be seen in the... (more)

DMIR 403, the last Missabe painted tunnel motor departs Port Arthur (Thunder Bay North) leading a short 2 car transfer across town to Neebing yard. The yard is beginning to swell with inbound grai... (more)

CN 840 twists around the Shebandowan river beginning its descent of Mabella Hill and eventually the port of Thunder Bay. The beauty of the spring grain rush are opportunities such as this to shoot... (more)

The last light on a much colder than normal November day sees a quartet of ES44’s leading the afternoon box train across the Matawin river.

Almost resembling an early morning M336 (minus the new power) departing Thunder Bay heading eastward onto the abandoned Kinghorn Subdivision. Unfortunately those days are long gone; here CN 840 ya... (more)

An SD40-2 still earns its keep hauling a mixture of new and old boarding car equipment westbound on the Nipigon Sub. Seen here crossing over the Black Sturgeon River alongside the remnants of the ... (more)

Westbound roadswitcher 421 with a big 10 upfront is finally assembled and ready to depart westbound on the Kaministiquia Subdivision. Today’s power includes an SD40-2, GP20-ECO, 2 new SD70’s, and ... (more)

RLCS unit 4514 idles away a cold winter night on the pool 8 lead. In the background eastbound paper train 420 has just finished its set off in Westfort yard and is pulling down to the depot for th... (more)

A nice set of power for the Kashabowie Sub leads Thunder Bay McKellar Isldand bound coke loads, reflecting nicely in the glasslike Kaministquia River on its way through the hamlet of Kakabeka Fall... (more)