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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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CP #8113 leads CN #3967, an ex-Citirail (CREX) ES44AC, on CP train #131 through Puce, Ontario on August 12, 2022.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/12/2022
Location:	Puce
Province:	Ontario

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BNSF 7714 is solely in control of CP Train #234 as it slowly approaches Strong Road, just east of Belle River, Ontario on August 10, 2022. Not as pretty as many of the BNSF's that have rolled by recently, with 7714 having it's California 'tagging' on the long hood, but still in the older H2 scheme. BNSF 7714 East had just met train #131 at Belle River and is still pulling it's 70 empty racks out of the siding, but soon it will be on the high iron and start to accelerate up to track speed.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/10/2022
Location:	Belle River
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 7 Favourites

VIA Cab Control Car #2300 leads the second Charger Test Train trip west toward Windsor as it crosses Belle River in, ironically, Belle River, Ontario on August 5, 2022. Had hoped that 2200 would be leading westbound as it is the actual locomotive for the train set, but instead it was on the rear for this trip.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	08/05/2022
Location:	Belle River
Province:	Ontario

10 Comments | 12 Favourites

Today's Windsor Sub catch. CP Train #131 with CP 8707, 7003, NS 1209, BNSF 3786 and BNSF 4734 hit the Golfview Drive crossing just west of St. Joachim, Ontario. 5 units and 5 different paint schemes. Sometimes it's actually worth shooting something on the Windsor sub. :-)

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/21/2022
Location:	St. Joachim
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 10 Favourites

You can spray your 'weeeeeed' with it.... CP 6080 West, train 2-WWI-8, 'The Weed Train', sits in the siding in Belle River as a less than enthusiastic Conductor looks on. 6080 West was to hold here for a 234 train to pass with a quartet of units, BNSF 3773, BNSF 5952, CP 9363 & CP 8149, but due to power issues on 234 it so late arriving that 6080 ended up being tied down in Belle River overnight. This cut short their day of spraying along the CP Windsor and currently the train remains tied up in Belle River at the time of posting....... Needless to say, the spray program seems to be failing miserably considering how overgrown the line has become recently.....

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/12/2022
Location:	Belle River
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 12 Favourites

CP Train #137 approaches St. Joachim, Ontario in the late, low light, of the afternoon of July 7th with UP 2587 and BNSF 6740 for power. #137 had met train #234 with BNSF Warbonnet #729 about 30 minutes previous at Ringold near Chatham. Nice to see foreign power on the CP Windsor Sub to break up the plethora of burnt CP GE's rolling across the County.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/07/2022
Location:	St. Joachim
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

CP 8156 East, Train #130-26, rolls casually by as Winter Wheat ripens in the fields of Essex County. 8156 has 3 more units it tow, 7032, 9362, and Military Tribute unit #7020 bringing up the rear of the 4 unit consist.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/27/2022
Location:	Haycroft
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 6 Favourites

CN 8910 West, Train #439, gets underway after meeting VIA train #76 at Stoney Point, Ontario. Thankfully 439 was a short train today as they were stopped in Stoney Point for about a 1/2 hour and would have had the town tied up as school let out if they had been about 5 cars longer.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/27/2022
Location:	Stoney Point
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

When the dog has to pee, the dog has to pee.... Well thankfully that was the case this morning when my dog woke me up early to go outside. When we went out I heard a horn in the distance and wondered if that was the 234 coming with the Hapag-Lloyd unit leading. Went in and grabbed the camera and headed to the backyard to get the best shot I could with the time that I had to spare. Here 8781 leads SD70ACu #7037 and GE 9712 as it rolls through Belle River at about 0650 on June 27, 2022.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/27/2022
Location:	Belle River
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 6 Favourites

Essex Terminal GP9 #108 has the "A/C" on as it rounds the curve and approaches the Texas Road crossing just North East of the town of Amherstburg, Ontario. With 5 tanks in tow, ETR #108 is certainly not exceeding the 25kmph limit shown on the barrier sign next to the tracks. ;-)

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Essex Terminal
Date:	06/10/2022
Location:	Amherstburg
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

VIA Train #73 "kicks it up" as it hits the 1st Street crossing while speeding through Belle River, Ontario on June 3, 2022 on it's way to Windsor.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	06/03/2022
Location:	Belle River
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

Seeing 'RED'...... CP 2227 leads a beautiful train 9-TEC-20 westward on the CP Windsor Subdivision as it performs testing on it's way to Windsor and passes through Emeryville, Ontario.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/20/2022
Location:	Emeryville
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

CP Train 2-234-10 rolls eastward through the Essex County flatlands on April 12, 2022 with BNSF 'Bonnet' #718 and freshly rebuilt QGRY GP38-2 #3538. BNSF 718 had arrived in Windsor around 0830 and lifted the QGRY 3538 and cars in Windsor while waiting on a late running 131 to arrive. All the better as it allow the sun to get further around for better lighting. Considering it's been raining/snowing the past few days, and it's supposed to continue through Easter weekend, I'll take a nice day with a rare consist!!!

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/12/2022
Location:	Haycroft
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 17 Favourites

Heading back east, CP's 8781 in Hapag-Lloyd paint, leads train #130 (formerly #140) at MP 91.3 of CP's Windsor Subdivision on a dreary March 31, 2022. Hopefully today 8781 will be able to make good time from Windsor to London unlike back on March 24th when it had to rescue a dead Train #244 that had run out of fuel. Sun has eluded me the 3 times this unit has gone by, but I still haven't lost faith.... :-)

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/31/2022
Location:	Belle River
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 7 Favourites

Hapag-Lloyd running "Southern Style".... CP's Hapag-Lloyd unit, working as 'Work Extra 8781', pulls a dead Train #244 into the siding in Tilbury, Ontario on March 24, 2022. Here's how the story goes.... So around 6:00am on March 24th, UP 8849 East, a 244 train, departed Windsor for London. Around MP 86 UP 8849 ran out of fuel and came to a stop blocking the Gracie Sideroad just west of Tilbury around 6:30am-ish. Talks then begin on what to do. "Is there power in Windsor to go out and drag 244 back to Belle River?" 'Nope'. "Is T69 still around Chatham and they can go back to Tilbury and pull 244 east and clear?" 'Nope'. So with nothing around to do an assist, and UP 8849 far enough past the Gracie Sideroad that they can't refuel it, the only hope is for Train #141, which was still in London, to do a rescue. But 141 isn't ready to Leave London yet. Eventually, around 0930 CP 8781, with train #141, departed London to the rescue. After leaving London 141 got hit by the Hotbox detector and had 4 'hot wheels' so they had to stop and inspect the train. After a set and release they were able to continue east with no further issues at the next HB detector. 141 finally arrived at MP 74 around 12:00pm-ish. Here the crew of #141 cut 8781 away from the trailing CP unit and left the train behind as they headed west at 10mph to get 244. Upon arrival at 244 they had some issues making a good joint. The crew of 244 by this point was out of time and once 141 had the air up on the stranded 244, the 244 crew walked to their cab to leave and book rest. At this point 8781, leading long hood forward, dragged UP 8849 and train #244 east and into the siding in Tilbury. Of course 244 was 2 cars too long for the siding, so they had to double over 1 rack and the UP 8849 in to the back track. Once completed 8781 was able to head back east to MP 74 and their 141 train. After everything was setup again 141 got away and finally cleared into Windsor around 4:40pm, a mear 7 hours after leaving London. All in all there were 4 trains delayed due to the rescue with one left in the siding for 2 days with no fuel. This my friends is what results from "Precision Scheduled Railroading"....

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Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/24/2022
Location:	Tilbury
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 15 Favourites

New number, same train.... Transfer Train #H98, formerly Train #T28, sits at Walkerville siding on the east end of Windsor waiting for a former CP Train #141, now Train #131, to finish switching. Once complete Train #131 will run through VACIS, followed by #H98, prior to both heading to the U.S. I guess under 'PSR' the trains move faster when you go to all the trouble of changing the train #'s.... Hahaahahahh...........

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/29/2022
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 7 Favourites

CP 9804 and BNSF 4109 lead a Sunday morning 234 out of Belle River, Ontario. The train had been hit by the Hot Box detector in Puce resulting in a long stop at Belle River while the Conductor found several applied handbrakes in the train. After releasing about 4 handbrakes the train was underway again, although local traffic was not happy as both crossings in town had been blocked for about 45 minutes.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/06/2022
Location:	Belle River
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 7 Favourites

CP 8136 is partnered up with Norfolk Southern 'Interstate' heritage unit #8105 as it approaches the Rochester Townline, just east of St. Joachim, Ontario on February 27, 2022. Nice seeing a variety of colors on CP with units from various Class 1's running through fairly regular in the past few years.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/27/2022
Location:	St. Joachim
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 8 Favourites

CP 8136 leads train #141 and the Norfolk Southern 'Interstate RR' heritage unit #8105, AKA 'The Creamsicle', through Jeanette's Creek, Ontario on a beautiful February 27th, 2022. Not the first time 8105 has been on CP's Windsor Sub, but this is the first catch of it for me on the CP. Although much dirtier than when we saw in West Virginia back in 2021, it's still one of my favorite of the NS Heritage fleet.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/27/2022
Location:	Jeanette's Creek
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 7 Favourites

CP train #141 was a 'Skittles' special today with a rainbow of color. CP 8010 leads train #141 with BNSF 6668, CSX 552, and CP 8641 in tow as it approaches Begin/End CTC Sign Walkerville on a frigid January 26th. Further back in the train is CP 9806 as the mid-train DPU completing the 5 units that powered 141 across the Galt and Windsor subs.

Name:	Geoff Elliott
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/26/2022
Location:	Tecumseh
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 6 Favourites

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