Somebody forgot to flush! Led by the infamous Lotto Quebec ad unit commonly referred to as "The Turd", VIA 83 crosses the Mississauga/Oakville town line on Track 2 on a pleasant bu... (more)

VIA 95 crosses the Sixteen Mile Creek on its way from Oakville to Niagara Falls with F40PH-3 6403 doing the honors.

VIA 83 crosses the Sixteen Mile Creek valley moments after departing Oakville Station, its starting point during the G8/G20 summits as VIA Rail has elected to avoid Toronto Union for the duration.... (more)

New Track 1 is finally in use! VIA 75 departs Oakville Station, its temporary starting point during the G8/G20 summits. No VIA trains were to be using Toronto Union for these few days for reasons ... (more)

After a torrential downpour the sun comes out just long enough to light up this downtown scene which includes a partial reflection of Toronto's Old City Hall in the modern glass building towering ... (more)

Ya never know what you'll find on any given day in Oakville Yard (although old geeps of all sorts would be pretty safe bets), so when I went out for some groceries this evening and a hole opened u... (more)

CN 4728 with a relatively-fresh paint job has been hanging around Oakville Yard for a few weeks now. Unfortunately I was unable to get a nicely lit shot of it until now as it has always been facin... (more)

In almost a year since I was last up the CN Tower, significant changes are apparent to the TRHA's Toronto Railway Heritage Centre at the old CP John Street Roundhouse below. The roof has been fixe... (more)

After packing in a step ladder to try to shoot over the weeds at the CEBX 800 36 axle Schnabel Car, I placed the camera on the top step to use the ladder as a tripod (quadpod?) for t... (more)

CEBX 800, 36 axle Schnabel Car is stashed at this small chemical plant's loading track until its own load in west Oakville is ready to roll.

A few observations about this pan shot... first, I really wouldn't want to be the engineer in one of these things if it ever got involved in a grade crossing mixup with a cement truck! Second, GO ... (more)

1/15th Zoom-Pan of VIA 75 departing Oakville Station.

83 passes a signals crew working on the new third main project at Park Royal.

BCRY 1001 - whose roots go back to the B & O - now proudly wears the name "Spirit of Collingwood", even though that town has earned a reputation for being railroad-unfriendly as of late. Here it w... (more)

Zoom-pan of VIA 83 kicking up ballast dust as it blasts through Oakville Station.