Meet under the skyline. CN 599 has CSX power and a long string of baretables for the Port of Montreal as it passes CN 321. CN 599 had been waiting for its signal, but is slowly picking up s... (more)

Quadruple zebras. A quartet of zebra striped geeps (CN 4808, CN 4771, CN 4141 & CN 4707) is heading to the shop track to grab a caboose (shoving platform at this point) before taking grain ... (more)

It's quite early in the morning as CP 253 is approaching Lasalle Yard with Navy unit CP 7022 leading CP 8155 & CP 8566. A late edition of counterpart CP 252 had just left here five minutes earlier... (more)

A pair of SD60M's (CP 6258 & CP 6262) lead CP 251 over the St. Lawrence River a bit before sunset.

Some nice light bathes EXO 1207 as it passes under a pair of signal gantries half an hour before sunset with AMT 1340 and four multilevel coaches, on its way to Mascouche.

A pair of barns (CMQ 9020 and CMQ 9017) have been on home turf during the past week, going back and forth between Maine on Montreal on CP 250/251. The presence of CP 6018 last though shows that th... (more)

Barns on a passenger-only line. If you had told me a year ago that I would see CMQ barns on the normally passenger-only CP Westmount Sub I would have been awfully surprised, but that's exac... (more)

CSXT B786 is backing up over the diamond at Cecile Junction as it works the CN interchange. The train is on CN's Valleyfield Sub, with the CSXT Montreal Sub crossing it at grade here. Power is CSX... (more)

Heritage and non-heritage SD70ACU's. CP 253 with SD70ACU's CP 7010 and CP 7002 is passing North Jct on a cold morning.

CN 120 with CN 2849, CN 8859 & CN 2117 up front (and CN 3008 mid-train) as it approaches Turcot Ouest. Where I am standing is roughly where the main line would have been up until a line change a y... (more)

Signs of winter and fall. CN 3869 & CN 3101 lead a later than usual CN 149 out of the Port of Montreal on a very cold but but very sunny morning. Montreal had gotten over half a foot of sno... (more)

CP 253 is passing through Lachine IMS Yard, where it will set off cars before continuing to St-Luc Yard. Leading is nearly brand new rebuild CP 8069.

The afternoon run of the Orford Express is rounding a curve on CMQ's Sherbrooke Sub, on its way to Bromont. In the background is the train's namesake mountain, Mont-Orford.

CEFX 1006 and CEFX 1002 have tied onto the consist of CMQ 2 and are pumping air before departing eastwards.

GrainsConnect cars up front. CN 9590 leads CN 596 out of the Port of Montreal on a scorching afternoon. Up front is a cut of about 25 GrainsConnect hoppers; somewhat new hoppe... (more)