Panning a Classic! Normally nocturnal CN 451 today wasn't ordered out of Macmillan Yard until after daybreak, and it was just shortly after noon when it got to my neck of the woods. They mu... (more)

Its work at Martins completed just as CN 451 went by, CN 595 follows a few minutes behind along the shore of frozen Lake Vernon. The venerable old geep is the usual power for this job, but this we... (more)

A very late-running 451 approaches the south end of Huntsville in full daylight for a change on St. Paddy's Day. Me catching it must've been the Luck o' the Irish - guess the crew weren't Irish! ;... (more)

The last train of our morning spent in Paris Ontario last week was this eastbound manifest. Since it looked like the sky was starting to cloud over we decided to bug out for home and perhaps get a... (more)

Eastbound VIA 70 crossing the Grand River in Paris, ON.

A pair of Dash 9s totaling 8400 HP lead an eastbound stack train over the Grand River, above the curved dam and remnants of an old mill in Paris Ontario.

CN 3036, 2808 and 7071 lead their train across the Grand River in the pretty southern Ontario village of Paris on a sunny late-winter morning.

5 years ago - about a half year before the provincial government terminated the Northlander passenger rail service - the northbound train is captured rounding the shore of Siding Lake at Martins w... (more)

Snowfighter crew clearing the line from Falkenburg up to Huntsville stops in at Martins to clear the siding and back track. This will make life easier for tomorrow's 595 when it comes down to swit... (more)

CN 2860's paint is still clean and fresh enough to contrast nicely with the snow and blue skies!

A late-running CN 451 winds its way through Huntsville, past an empty set of tie gons on a chilly winter morning.

Yesterday's Jordan Spreader move was taking it relatively easy through this section compared to what it had faced further south. It was following a couple of hours behind a ballast regulator the l... (more)

CN ran a Jordan Spreader up the Newmarket Sub from Washago to Huntsville today, first time I've seen one in these parts since about 30 years ago when they used to keep one parked at Martins or in ... (more)

Gone but not forgotten!

On a perfect spring day back in 2011 the Ontario Northland "Northlander" winds through the curves at Mile 144 of the CN Newmarket Sub just south o... (more)

The 2016 CP Holiday Train creeps across the 1,695' long by 115' high trestle over the Seguin River in Parry Sound, Ontario as dusk settles in.