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I'm here to share some of my favourite shots from Ontario and maybe beyond.

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I debated on whether or not to post this one, or whether I should wait to repeat this photo under a more impressive northern lights display, but here you go anyhow! A piece of snowfighting equipment <i>(owned by Mansour, I think? Anyone know reporting marks for this unit?)</i> begins its long summer rest as the fading pillars of a solar storm disappear northward. There was a strong display about a half hour earlier, which I shot above Onaping High Falls.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Maintenance of Way
Date:	05/12/2024
Location:	Levack
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 8 Favourites

"Remember this sound," I said to L as the matching 645s rumbled closer and 5996 blew its K3 for McKim Mine Road. "It won't be around forever." The ballast train in evening light was an unexpected treat while we were running errands tonight.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	07/11/2023
Location:	Sudbury
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 8 Favourites

I wasn't the only person to shoot CP 3747 at the fuel pad in Sudbury yesterday, though I wish I had my camera when I drove by earlier in the day, when there were three SD40-2s coupled behind it in the same spot. By the evening, only 6028 remained.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	06/20/2023
Location:	Sudbury
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 14 Favourites

After a 2.5 km hike, 2.5 km paddle and a couple of portages, we were rewarded with a trio of northbounds through this classic central Ontario scene. Sometimes, the hard work pays off.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/11/2023
Location:	Mowat Township
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 9 Favourites

CP 421 I presume based on the cargo waits on a crew change at the west end of Larchwood. That hump in the ground just behind the head end is the edge of the meteorite impact crater that formed the Sudbury basin.

Incidentally, if you want to <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/xAbJ8y28tUepnjkj7">see this train in Google Maps</a>, the StreetView car must have been by within an hour on either side of my visit. I was looking at StreetView today, saw a familiar train and decided to upload my shot.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/24/2022
Location:	Larchwood
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 9 Favourites

Grainer CP 322 navigates the s-bend at Sprecher, mile 82 of the Cartier Sub. I definitely need to come back when the snow isn't knee-deep to find better angles to show off that massive cut.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/05/2023
Location:	Sudbury
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 8 Favourites

Most Z4s are simply roadsters. This one, however, could be aptly called a railroadster.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/24/2022
Location:	Capreol
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 12 Favourites

We drove through Parry Sound as this one was crossing the trestle, then failed our chase attempt to Nobel as the crew had it pegged at track speed. We crossed over to the 400/69 and hoped that by Pointe we'd have caught it, though unsure of its exact location. A local asking us how we were doing right as the train approached threw us off a bit, but I think we both ended up with passable captures.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/08/2022
Location:	Pointe au Baril
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

CN's classic rock intermodal train rattles the streets of Coniston as it races northward past some new rail. CN 8917 has one heck of a beastly K5LLA.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/22/2022
Location:	Coniston
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

After hearing that the OVR job made quick work in Sudbury and was ready to turn around back to North Bay, I scoured the map for any favourable bend that wouldn't be backlit. Eastbounds in the afternoon, what a joy to shoot! Satellite views showed a clearing here with some elevation across from the tracks, at a spot that also featured a brief stretch of nearly due-south trackage. Score! We decided to try it in the hopes the hillside would be clear enough for a shot. <br>Here, U430 has returned to home rails on the Cartier Sub and skirts a marsh, looking more like a lake with the springtime flows.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Ottawa Valley Rail…
Date:	04/22/2022
Location:	Wahnapitae
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 23 Favourites

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Huron Central Rail…
Date:	03/06/2022
Location:	Sudbury
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

GEXR in the north! As 431 approached, I thought to myself, 'heh, it looks like those people who swap LED headlights into their lifted trucks.' Upon closer inspection of my image, that is indeed the case with GEXR 2123 (formerly LLPX 2236). I've been trying to figure out when and why this unit had its standard ditch lights swapped for LEDs. I've been able to determine that it happened sometime between <a href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5569014"> August 2016 </a> and <a href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4916029"> October 2017 </a>. Leave your intel (or foamer theories) in the comments.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Ottawa Valley Rail…
Date:	02/28/2022
Location:	Romford
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 12 Favourites

This train was full of surprises. First, we were anticipating a roadswitcher to be heading east, not a through freight. Then, a CN unit rolled by as mid-DPU (the first of two trains like that on this day) and finally, the tail end had two units together as rear helpers. Not a bad improvement over a roadswitcher.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/28/2022
Location:	Sudbury
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

After a day of snowshoeing on Georgian Bay and grabbing beers to go at Trestle Brewing Co. (a must-visit, they've got a fantastic patio at the foot of the trestle), B and I decided to visit the hilltop museum and lookout tower before parting ways. We shot The Canadian from a trackside rock cut on the property; knowing there was a second northbound following, I decided to climb halfway up the tower to watch the freight roll by. B reluctantly followed and I explained the "golden goose" of Parry Sound shots - a genuine southbound crossing the trestle ACOT due to a detour or, as is far more common, faking the shot with an out-facing rear DPU—also a fairly lucky circumstance. <br>As luck would have it, I heard another engine rumbling up the line (check), it was at the end of the train (check!), it was a relatively fresh rebuild (Check!) and was facing out (CHECK!). I quickly climbed to the tower's summit and fired off a shot as it continued its northwestern journey. It's pretty amazing how quickly the distant landforms across the water fade into near-nothingness with a small amount of snow in the air.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/06/2022
Location:	Parry Sound
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

<br><br><b>The end of the line (again)?</b><br>Following a vague statement this summer that it would seek to sell off 850 miles of non-core lines in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ontario, many people rightly suspected that CN was poised to divest itself of its Algoma Central Railway subsidiary. CN confirmed this week (Dec. 14) that the ACR was indeed up for sale and that the company is working with prospective buyers.<br><br>Many rail enthusiasts and the communities that the ACR supports are hopeful that a successful new operator will take over, but only time will tell which group that may be and if it can make a go of it. If CN can't find a suitable buyer, well? Then what? At the risk of firing up the railfan rumour mill (everyone's favourite!), this will be an outcome to watch in the coming years.<br><br><i>(Oh, and photo caption, it's 0822 and the ACR passenger train, which last ran in 2015, idles before the crew comes on duty after breakfast, reverses to the wye and makes their southward trip home.)</i>

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/14/2015
Location:	Hearst
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

<i>Are we handing off at the grocery store?</i> "That is correct, over." <br>A monstrous CN Q111 has just eased to a stop near the Foodland in Capreol, south of the only crossing connecting one half of town to the other. It's a railway town and the locals barely take note of the metal behemoth lurking quietly down from the Young Street crossing, except to make sure they can grab their supplies and get home before a few miles of freight block the road for some time. <br>It's a somewhat green crew today, possibly on a familiarization run, judging by the colours of their vests and the more-than-the-usual-two number of people climbing into the cab. Coffees in hand, they prepare to air up and head into the barren expanses of the Ruel Sub.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	12/05/2020
Location:	Capreol
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 20 Favourites

<b>Another victim</b><br>Canadian Pacific officially announced yesterday, September 24 (that's exactly three months before Christmas for those keeping score at home) that its <a href="https://www.cpr.ca/en/media/canadian-pacific-to-donate-to-local-food-banks-host-virtual-concert-for-2020-holiday-train"> Holiday Train would not run this year</a>, opting instead for virtual concerts and food bank donations. Many contributors to this site, myself included, have made a cherished annual tradition out of photographing it, often in the company of close friends. It's yet another way the world is changing as it deals with the COVID-19 pandemic.<br>Of interesting note is that the Holiday Train's Twitter account has gone offline, though its press release promises a planned return for 2021.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/30/2018
Location:	Sudbury
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

I wasn't totally happy with the closer-up versions of this angle so I punched in a bit on this approach test shot and it came out decently. The high summer sun is getting lower in the June evening sky, giving the whole world a warm tinge as 115 nears the Coniston diamond with the OVR (nee CPR) line.

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/09/2020
Location:	Coniston
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 6 Favourites

All of my night chase shots turned out pretty garbage. With the sun up on a fresh morning, it was time to try again. Ice chunks are beginning to choke the Vermilion River and have amassed just too far up to block the reflection (despite me balancing on the top of a bridge guardrail).

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/30/2019
Location:	Larchwood
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

I was leaving town following two days of Holiday Train chasing and came across this idling dash-2 right near a crossing. Thought it would be a nice night long exposure. I parked, rifled around for my tripod and by the time I got up to the crossing, it was notching up to full smoke ahead so I had to fire off a grab pan shot. Nice to see these old diesels still running-it takes me back!

Name:	8814N
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/30/2019
Location:	Sudbury
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 12 Favourites

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