CN 451 setting out one car in Huntsville Yard with a lone BCOL unit in charge. I love this paint scheme, but the dirt really shows up on it.

CN 451 glides across the Siding Lake causeway approaching Martins just after sunrise, with work ahead at Huntsville before continuing on to North Bay.

Moment of Impact: ON 698 bears down on the Old Muskoka Road crossing in Allensville, blasting the snow bank left by the road plow earlier in the day. Click Railroad: Ontario Northland
Locomotive: GMD GP38-2
Location: Allensville, Ontario, Canada
Locomotive #: ONR 1809
Train ID: ONR 698
Photo Date: January 19, 2012

ON 698 bears down on the Old Muskoka Road crossing in Allensville, kicking up accumulated snow along the right of way.

The day after catching this train blasting through snow on its northbound journey from Toronto I catch it again heading south, encountering more snow at the South Lancelot Road crossing in Allensv... (more)

A quick flashback a couple of years to when the Northlander still plied the rails sees 697 passing Siding Lake on a typical winter day in Muskoka, with the skies beginning to clear after a morning... (more)

After waiting for the passage of 451, CN 595 waits some more while the south switch at Martins is chopped free of ice.

595 negotiates the curve approaching the Aspdin Road crossing at the north end of Martins Siding with the single boxcar that 451 dropped at Huntsville Yard the previous day.

Air Guitar! With one hand gripping the handrail and the other on his radio he does kinda look like he's playing air guitar don't ya think? 451's conductor rides the trailing unit to keep ey... (more)

The conductor resets the derail at the north end of HV61 after 451 set a boxcar out there. The power will now return to its train which it left south of town to avoid fouling crossings, before con... (more)

CN 451 approaches the Newmarket Sub's mileboard to Huntsville, where it will set out one car before carrying on its way.

Darwin Candidates? Just practicing, the power is returning from setting out 1 empty boxcar in Huntsville Yard and hooking back up to its train. You can see the conductor on the ground in th... (more)

With several cars to set out at Huntsville 451 had parked its train south of town so as not to block any grade crossings such as the one at Yonge Street visible in the center of the frame. After d... (more)

451 approaches Mile 138 of the CN Newmarket Sub with a nice GTW 4927 GP38-2 for a bit of color variation. Only 6400 horses today, but this relatively long train was still moving at a pretty good c... (more)

Smokin' 60! After meeting 451 at Martins 3 miles north 450 heads down the Newmarket Sub at Mile 138, with SD60 5451 in second position spewing out a vapor trail on a frigid morning. Trailin... (more)