The last run of the day from downtown Montreal to Mascouche is passing Turcot Ouest with the usual consist of an F59PH and three multilevel cars.
CN 100 unit CN 3887 & CN 2253 lead a short CN 321 towards Turcot Ouest. With only 55 cars, they will be lifting cars at Coteau and Brockville. In just a a mile or two they will be stopped by a PTC... (more)
CN 529 has a pair of rebuilds and a CP unit (NS 1848, NS 4333 & CP 9829) as it passes CN 310, which is finishing setting off cars on the Transfer Track. NS 1848 was rebuilt from SD70 NS 2520 in 20... (more)
CN 527 is heading back to Southwark Yard with CN 3177, CN 8842 & CN 4729. In the foreground is a new path that follows the CN Montreal Sub for a couple of miles.
The Pointe St-Charles Switcher is on its way to the Port of Montreal with sixteen cars and is on the move again after waiting for its signal (CN 148 was just ahead of it and going to the port as w... (more)
The last train of the day for Toronto is passing the Turcot Interchange with wrapped VIA 6416 and six LRC cars.
CN 401 has CN 8885 & CN 3967 for power as it passes an on-ramp leading to Autoroute 20.
After spending some fruitless early-morning hours scouting the area, I went for a safe bet, the morning departure of VIA 63 to Toronto. Two GE P42DC (VIA 919 leading and VIA 914 at the tail end) w... (more)
VIA 633 only runs on weekends and makes the morning departure from Montreal for Ottawa, leaving Montreal's Gare Centrale (Bonaventure) with the REM construction advancing well in the background.
This view on Montreal's Peel Basin is quickly changing as the old gantries from CN's former DC electrification just abave VIA 900 are now gone, and overhead wire is strung on the brand new REM lin... (more)
EXO 1211 is passing and will soon overtake CN 401 as the latter slows down.
CN 3960 & CN 3825 lead CN 401 past the Turcot Interchange.
VIA 37 for Ottawa has a Renaissance consist as it approaches Turcot Ouest.
Sun-bleached CN 9523 leads GP9 7060 and a string of grain cars over the Lachine Canal towards Pointe-St-Charles.
AMT 1340 and AMT 1344 push a short EXO 1204 West on their long detour to Montreal's Gare Centrale, just after having left the station of Ahuntsic. In the foreground is the construction site of th... (more)