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I grew up around Coatsworth, Ontario next to the C&O Canadian Division back in the 70's. Have always been interested in trains since I was a toddler. My Grandfather gave me my first electric train when I was 4 and it has now stuck for 48 years. My son, 6, and daughter, 10, are both interested in model trains and photography as well, so I hope to share my 30+ years of experience with them for many more years to come.

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With the light getting low CN train #439 rolls over the Belle River bridge with a solo British Columbia Railway 8-40CM #4609. As CN is slowing retiring these units it was a treat to get this in decent light.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/23/2021
Location: Belle River
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
First shot of 2021 and it's a little 'heritage' of a different color. NS 8103, the 'Norfolk and Western' heritage unit, leads CP train #244 through Belle River, Ontario today. Within eyesight of this spot is the now VIA Chatham Subdivision where N&W F and GP units in this very color scheme roamed when I was but a young boy. This is the second time I've seen this unit, the first back in 2012 in West Virginia while trailing the Pennsylvania HU. Great way to start off 2021, and hopefully this is a sign of a good year to come overall......
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 01/06/2021
Location: Belle River
Province: Ontario
Comments | 15 Favourites
CP 'local' T-29 made a very early morning westbound run to Windsor on December 11th. Here CP 3113 leads T-29 back eastbound toward London with a cut of about 10 tanks likely destined for the ethanol plant in Chatham. T-29 is holding in the siding at the east switch Belle River, waiting on a huge CP 141 train to pass. 3113 will have 35 years of service in her come April 2021 and it's nice to see these old Soldiers still making miles and money for the railroad.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/11/2020
Location: Belle River
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
CP Train #244, with SD70Acu #7038 on point, speeds through Essex County on a brisk and sunny November 28th. The draw today isn't the leader, but the trailing unit, Union Pacific #1983, the Missouri Pacific Heritage Unit. First one of the UP Heritage fleet I've been able to shoot as the Rio Grande unit went by in the dark a few years back. Thanks to all for the H/U's.....
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/28/2020
Location: Belle River
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 16 Favourites
All covered up..... Ontario Southland's matched pair of covered wagons lead 4 covered hoppers past a field of dreams just west of Ingersoll, Ontario. The hoppers, of SOO Line, MILW, and LEF&C lineage, were pulled in Putnam and are headed eastward. From here the wagons will switch the CAMI plant and lift cars from the St. Thomas job that they will meet in town. Once all the work in Ingersoll is complete, the pair will continue east to Woodstock and interchange cars with the CP.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 10/16/2020
Location: Ingersoll
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
The St. Thomas job has returned north from Tillsonburg and is now headed west out of Ingersoll bound for St. Thomas. 378 is about to cross King Street and has 1 car on the tailend for the Woodstock job that will be setout at Cami for 6508 to lift as it heads east toward Woodstock later.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 10/16/2020
Location: Ingersoll
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
Hard to beat Fall colors and early morning sun. Ontario Southland GP7 #378 leads the St. Thomas job south out of Salford, Ontario and through a beautiful Fall color setting with a lone tankcar bound for the transloading facility in Tillsonburg.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 10/16/2020
Location: Salford
Province: Ontario
Comments | 13 Favourites
Well, of course I'll "STOP".... With OSR 1401 now on point heading west, the Woodstock job pulls 6 hoppers of various lineage toward the large grain facility in Putnam, Ontario as it is about to cross Five Points Road.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 10/16/2020
Location: Putnam
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 6 Favourites
Ontario Southland FP9A #6508 leads sister #1401 north on the Woodstock job. Once they arrive in Ingersoll, Ontario to start the days' work they will head out to switch the mill in Putnam, then back to pull/switch the Cami plant and then head on down the link to Woodstock to make their interchange with the CP.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 10/16/2020
Location: Ingersoll
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
Fall is here and the colors are showing all around. Even on the trains. CP Military Tribute unit #7023 leads CP Script heritage unit #7013 on train #235 as it rolls through the Essex County country side near Puce, Ontario on October 7, 2020.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/07/2020
Location: Puce
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 12 Favourites
Not quite a matched set, but a 'nice pair' to say the least. CP Train #235 sports 2 Heritage units today with 7019 in Block Lettering and 7013 in Script. The turning Soyabeans show that Fall is here and with the units it almost looks like 1965 all over again.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/25/2020
Location: Puce
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 8 Favourites
It's apparent that the soyabeans are getting ready to harvest as CP 7018 east, with train #140, rolls through the Essex County flatlands and passes by MP 88 of the CP Windsor Subdivision on a beautiful last day of Summer 2020.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/21/2020
Location: Haycroft
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
"Block Party" of sorts. CP 7018, in it's block CP Heritage scheme, leads Train #140 into the siding in Belle River, Ontario to wait on westbound CP 8101, Train #235. This is the first decent shot of a block lettered unit I've been able to nab as they always seem to going the wrong way for the light. Nice catch for the day.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/21/2020
Location: Belle River
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
CP train #235 with a trio of SD70Acu's #7012, #7043, and #7010 rolls up on MP 88 of the CP Windsor Subdivision just west of Haycroft, Ontario today. Considering how screwed up 2020 has been so far, you couldn't have asked for a better consist or day for this to happen. Thanks to the motive power guys in Toronto for setting this one up for us!!!
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/06/2020
Location: Haycroft
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 13 Favourites
Hard to shoot rosters of locomotives in the new millenium, but with issues at the NS Bridge in Detroit, and trains stopped on the CP with no where to go, it got a little easier today. I was finally able to snag a decent roster of Canadian Pacific SD70ACU #7023 while it sat quietly between St. Joachim and Haycroft, Ontario while waiting for the RTC to determine it's fate. It later made it to Windsor at about 15mph, but it won't be going to the U.S. any time soon.........
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/30/2020
Location: Haycroft
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
CP train #235 sits quietly between St. Joachim and Haycroft, Ontario on June 30, 2020. Due to issues at the Norfolk Southern Bridge over the Rouge River in Detroit, all traffic to/from the CP/NS has been stopped all day. 235 sits here with 10K feet of train while a 141 sits in Windsor ahead of him with 9100 feet of train. With no place to go where they will fit, all they can do is sit. Also in the mix is a 140 on the U.S. side, west of NS Bridge, with CP 7016 and mid-train DPU 6644. Just another day of "Precision Railroading" on the CP in 2020!!!
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/30/2020
Location: Haycroft
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
Backlit blues.... CP D-Day unit #6644 leads Heritage Sister 7016 as the power for today's Train #141 as it rolls past the corn fields of Essex County just west of Haycroft, Ontario on June 28, 2020.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/28/2020
Location: Haycroft
Province: Ontario
Comments | 9 Favourites
CP 9720 leads a MONSTER train #235 as it arrives at the WSS Belle River, Ontario on June 28, 2020. CP 8001 will proceed east after 235 clears.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/28/2020
Location: Belle River
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
Soon to be "amber waves of grain".......... CP SD70ACU #6644, in it's camouflage colors applied to Royal Canadian Air Force "Spitfire" fighter planes flown at the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, rolls past the large grain elevator in Haycroft, Ontario on June 25, 2020. Grain, grain elevators, and trains combined made Canada great, but sadly the railroad no longer services this mill and all product is now shipped by truck which is an all too common reality in this new millenium.
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/25/2020
Location: Haycroft
Province: Ontario
7 Comments | 7 Favourites
CP 8109 West, Train #235, rolls through the 'Essex County Prairies' as the wheat starts to head out for the 2020 harvest season. Although nothing special, it was just a nice day to get out and take a shot...... Can't wait for 2020 to be overwith!!
Name: Geoff Elliott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/11/2020
Location: St. Joachim
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
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