The early-morning departure out of Ottawa skirts the shores of Lake Ontario in eastern Toronto as it crosses Highland Creek and climbs the 1% grade from Port Union to Scarborough Junction.

An eastbound equipment move to Oshawa zips past the lower Rouge River wetlands and Rouge Beach.

Now clear of Staines and Toronto Yard, the hogger has this pair of '60s on a relatively short 138 up to track speed.

Wow - sure miss those SOO '60s that were regulars to and from Montreal.

Grain from the Canadian prairies, 112 loads, bound for the Port of Montreal. (2/2 - DPU 8623 tail-end power; 9610-9524 on head-end)

Grain from the Canadian prairies, 112 loads, bound for the Port of Montreal. (1/2 - 9610-9524 head-end power; DPU 8623 on tail-end)

Stacks emerge from the woods as 112 negotiates the reverse curves and digs in for the climb up and over the Oak Ridges Moraine.

After pausing at the south home signal, the Engineer highballs ONR's Northlander northward on CN trackage. At North Bay, the train will move onto home rails en route to Cochrane, 468 miles north o... (more)

Canadian Pacific. Canadian Tire. Canadian Winter. Canadian Shield. Canadian Cowl.

The sole passenger train that regularly operates in the eastern edition of the CP-CN directional-running territory (VIA train 2 runs down the CN Bala Sub on alternate days).

With power like that it is safe to conclude the cyclist is not a foamer.