Beautiful fall colors on the Lac St-Jean subdivision

Canadian National U-2-g 6218 sits at Drummondville having been cut off the passenger excursion from Montreal. This was the cleanest steam locomotive I've ever seen even having run over 60 miles wi... (more)

New York City bound Amtrak #68 crosses over from the CN St-Hyacinthe Subdivision (Transcon) to the Rouses Point Subdivison. 42 miles from here to Rouses Point N.Y. The Adirondack left Central Sta... (more)

The "Chaleur" slows for a sharp curve as the day's light fades

Montreal bound ''Expressway'' with an old warrior in charge pass western Quebec countryside at track speed.

View from the newly opened second floor of the Hays station @ Exporail wich mimics a yard tower POV. In the foreground is CN 6734, born 1952 and retired in 1995 when the Deux-Montagnes line was co... (more)

Eastbound freight crosses Ottawa River; CN bridge in foreground

CP D10k No.1072 was built by Schenectady in 1912 and scrapped about a year after I photographed her. She is lettered Quebec Central, a CP subsidiary to which she is on loan. Relatively little st... (more)

The water level is up to the bridge deck as CN 323 crosses the flood-swollen Richelieu River at the northend tip of Lake Champlain.

The sun is rising, so is the water level. MM&A train # 1 crosses the swollen Richelieu River at sunrise. Worse flood in 35 years. Record high lake levels (Lake Champlain N.Y)) have pushed wate... (more)

MMA 811 deposits a pair of covered hoppers at one of the feed mills in St-Pie.

On NS lease, I wouldn't be surprised if this old warrior was put to rest in the near future... While the (female) engineer is sitting in the NS black loco, a conductor is standing on the porch of... (more)

CN 377 with SD70M-2 #8828 in lead, rolls on the snow!

Winter storm conditions this morning as Amtrak Adirondack busts through snow drifts on its way south