Saturday afternoon in Oakville Yard.

The orginal wooden tower was replaced in the 1950's by a modern brick tower on the opposite side of the mainline. 59 years later and still standing an ONR passenger train rolls by and will drop of... (more)

My little part of the Great White North made a pathetic attempt to live up to its name yesterday morning which all got washed away by rain. Made another half-hearted try this morning as 4700 worke... (more)

CN 4728 leading 11 hoppers over Colborne street

Brining empties from Richardson & Viterra C to Westfort

CN 587 passing the 1893 built Brantford Armouries, on the old LE&N line

587 heading back towards the yard after picking up 3 hoppers at SC Johnson wax

Oakville Yard, once a bastion of old GP9s with the occasional GMD1 thrown in for good measure, is seeing some change as there are more GP38-2s these days. 4717 works the west yard lead while 4700 ... (more)

Having left South River before 698 started boarding passengers there (and making good time down to Huntsville) I thought I'd tie on a lure and cast a few from the boardwalk along the south shore o... (more)

1806 heading up the Northlander from North Bay stares down the setting sun as passengers unload at Cochrane Station. I asked the engineer if I could cross to this platform to make this shot, he sa... (more)

Power for the Polar Bear express rests on the Store Creek Bridge awaiting the 18:00 departure to Cochrane from Moosonee Station.

Having chased the Northlander south from Huntsville we got a few minutes ahead and waited in the shade of some big maples for it to get to Washago, where it picked up one passenger and continued s... (more)

Heading south through Martins and about to cross one of the best pike-fishing lakes in the area.

An intresting assortment of 4 axle power is on the headend of today's daily Toronto to Winnipeg manifest

Much like some of its employees, part of CN's fleet of locomotives was "laid off" due to the economic downturn. One of the nicer 7500 series hump units sits in storage amid road power at MacMillan... (more)