Splashes of fall color are beginning to appear as 698 rounds the curve at Mile 144 of the CN Newmarket Sub on a brisk late summer afternoon.

On the last day of scheduled steam service for the year the Portage Flyer approaches Fairy Lake Station with RP contributor Wayne Shaw at the throttle. The houses in the background are actually a ... (more)

On the last day of scheduled steam service for the year the Portage Flyer has just left the Rotary Village Station and is headed for Fairy Lake with a familiar face (to me at least), RP contributo... (more)

Old number 2 prepares to run around its train at Fairy Lake. The old station building used to be the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Navigation Co. Purser's Cabin at Norway Point, Lake of Bays. Observ... (more)

The hunchbacked CN 2263 in charge of CN A45131 20 has just made its early morning drop at Huntsville and will now return to pick up the rest of its train before continuing on to North Bay. The mod... (more)

The hunchbacked CN 2263 greets the dawn, slowing at the south end of town to cut off two cars for today's Huntsville Yard drop. The modified long hood houses emissions testing equipment.

698 slows to pick up a pile of passengers at Huntsville.

595 southbound for Washago, under a few whispy clouds in an otherwise blue sky.

Southbound Northlander blasts around the curve and crosses Highway 141 in Utterson. This small village boasts a little Post Office, a General Store/Tack Shop and a few other businesses. While it i... (more)

Don't laugh! Oh, go ahead, laugh if you must! It is a funny looking little critter, but on a small narrow gauge operation like ours it actually comes in pretty handy, doing tr... (more)

Taking the old Brookville for a spin up the line after giving her a tune-up. This little switcher is powered by a late '60s Ford smallblock coupled to an automatic transmission and a reversible tr... (more)

The Portage Flyer approaches Fairy Lake Station on its second day of operations in 3 years. The coaches were both built in 1894 as horse-drawn trolleys before being acquired by the Huntsville and ... (more)

First fire in 3 years. Last night Judy and I spent 3 hours painting the boiler and steam dome with high-temp aluminum paint. This morning Chief Engineer Greg and I covered them with insulat... (more)

First fire in 3 years. Last night Judy and I spent 3 hours painting the boiler and smoke dome with high-temp aluminum paint. This morning Chief Engineer Greg and I covered them with insulat... (more)

An increasingly rare daytime 450 heads south alongside Aspdin Road. Something looks different about this lead unit. The center section of the long hood has been raised to house some emissions test... (more)