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Number of images: 174
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The C40-8W's were still relatively new to CN rails and it didn't take long for a number of them to become captive on the Thunder Bay runs. Here we see CN 2170 (leading CN 2102 and a couple dozen grain hoppers after setting out most their train in Neebing yard) past the Alba station name sign; which signifies the east end of Neebing yard and the switch for the CN Mission Spur. The crew will run across town, tie down the balance of their train, park the power (likely on the east leg of the Port Arthur wye) and call it a day.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/09/2011
Location: Thunder Bay
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
In a scene inspired from John Hardy's <I> Rusty Rails</I>, I captured the ol' <I>"Pride of Orangeville"</I> and crew returning to Orangeville north of Snelgrove, approaching Old School Road. In Mr. Hardy's book he captured a pair of CP MLW's along with a leased VIA F40PH-2 6452 leading a caboose hop north on the then CP Owen Sound Sub in late December 1994. The book is a great read for anyone wishing to learn more about the the branches in mid-western Ontario, from construction to abandonment.
Name: David Young
Railway: Cando
Date: 06/20/2008
Location: Brampton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
After a crew change, the Kam Sub crew pulls down the Canada 150 train to load a few privileged people onto the train for the trip eastward. Note the empty space between the mainlines here, this was where the old depot in Ignace use to be, before it was torn down.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/05/2017
Location: Ignace
Province: Ontario
7 Comments | 15 Favourites
CP ES44AC 8774 and NS C40-9W 9440 -with an American crew aboard- start train 298 on its trip south, rumbling through St. Boniface with a crew change destined at Thief River Falls, Minnesota. This practice has since been stopped arbitrarily due to collective bargaining differences. Canadian crews out of Winnipeg once again run down to Emerson to crew change with Thief River crews.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 01/03/2016
Location: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 3 Favourites
A miserable and wet morning in White River, Ontario finds Ontario's Budd's departing for Sudbury. RDC4 6250 and RDC-2 6215 are assigned the honours for the trip to Sudbury, while in the background train 112-18 sits staged awaiting a crew to come available to take the train east. <br>During this time CP crews based out of Chapleau operated the passenger between White River and Sudbury. A couple years later VIA crews would take over the run to operate the train from the CP crews.
Name: David Young
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 08/21/2009
Location: White River
Province: Ontario
Comments | 17 Favourites
<b><I>Sunrise on the Kashabowie.</I><b/> Regional forest fires cover the north in a smoky haze as Thunder Bay bound grain train blasts its 14L for the Highway 11 crossing just west of the small hamlet of Shebandowan.<br> <I>Of note: This was the first DPU'd train CN ran on the Kashabowie. I can't recall the number of cars but I believe it was in the neighbourhood of 150-160 cars. An absolute monster! And this practice today has become common on bulk trains into the Lakehead, some pushing this threshold in the 200+ car total. Power CN ES44DC 2236- CN SD50F 5459 with CN ES44DC 2267 pushing on the rear</I>
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/22/2008
Location: Shebandowan
Province: Ontario
Comments | 4 Favourites
One for Mr. Mooney and the other station lovers out there.<br><br> Now relocated south of Thunder Bay just off Hwy 61 at the Founder's Museum and Pioneer Village, the old CP Upsala station survives next to the ugliest choice of yellow for CP van 434458.
Name: David Young
Railway: Preservation
Date: 10/31/2008
Location: Thunder Bay
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
It's a warm and hazy evening in the valley, the final rays of the day glints of the snow capped peaks around Golden as CP 9529 West pauses to fuel after beating the Kicking Horse. It's next challenger: Rogers Pass. In the background on one of the yard tracks CP 8637 West sits awaiting its crew after switching downtown.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/17/2007
Location: Golden
Province: British Columbia
1 Comments | 6 Favourites
Trillium's HR412W 3582 crawls along the Cayuga Sub approaching the defective crossing at Belmont Road. In the siding sits a string of stored frame cars.
Name: David Young
Railway: St. Thomas and Eas…
Date: 01/02/2008
Location: New Sarum
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
The last hurrah for the GP9's in Thunder Bay. With a record amount of grain to move off the prairie the rail companies pulled out some of the old stops. What was typical of CP with a triple set of geeps to move tonnage around Current River, in more recent times (2010 and later) a pair of GP38-2's or SD40-2's was all that was used. The 8231 has roughly 7 months left before hitting the deadline, the 8234 has 5 months left. 3115 still rolls the rails somewhere on the CP system as of October 2016.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/16/2014
Location: Thunder Bay
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 6 Favourites
After grabbing their cars for Hunts Haulage off GEXR 580 and crossing over the mainline, the conductor walks towards his engine to begin their journey southward to Cambridge. The eighth and final car on the train is a load destined for Gillies Lumber.
Name: David Young
Railway: Genesee & Wyom…
Date: 03/04/2016
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
Well it is not a "time machine" photo in the sense of the link below the header of the page, it's a time machine for this one photographer. I'm new and fresh into the hobby of photography, I am a newly licensed G2 driver and my only target in my viewfinder (or at this point in time, through the digital display on my Canon PowerShot A75) was steel rolling on steel. It's far from the ideal conditions to be taking pictures in, overcast and rainy. Not enough to keep this keen, young railfan out of his parents 1999 Honda Civic and go for a joy ride to catch some action on the local rail scene. After chasing the Guelph Jct Railway north from Moffat and service the Owens Corning fibreglass plant in Guelph, I swung up to the VIA station to see #85 come in. A father and son had the same idea, less the camera.<br> On the lead this overcast and miserable November day was VIA 6403 in "CBC" wrap, followed by the standard Budd coaches. It must have been a busy day as there are three of them instead of the standard two! This grainy, cloudy, and overblown image is the one and only image I have of the unit. - It is featured (in the newer VIA scheme) on our new Canadian ten dollar bill and has been renumbered to 6459. <br><br>Ten years later I look back at these images from when I first started out and can't believe how frustrated I became when editors would turn down my images. Dark, gloomy, sky blown out! But I feel time does change things. Even the way we look at images. After 10 years of being in a folder, on my hard drive I feel its time to show it off. Show how far I have come in my photography skills and let this be a lesson (that I hope the moderators of this site will share) to you younger photographers just starting your craft. A lot of your images that may be under appreciated today, hold on to them and have patience. Practice your craft, learn to frame an image, learn what is visually appealing -this image is anything but! However; scenes do change! This scene has changed! And I believe that's what is most appealing to this grainy image.
Name: David Young
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 11/06/2005
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 3 Favourites
A pair of SW1500's with Penn Central and later Conrail heritages now work together sorting forest and steel products in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. QGRY 1501 (PC/CR 9508) HCRY 1505 (PC/CR 9538).
Name: David Young
Railway: Huron Central Rail…
Date: 01/10/2009
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
Leisurely racing the rain clouds, Ontario Northland freight 514 clicks alongside Trans-Canada Hwy #11 east of Moonbeam, Ontario embracing the harmonic rock and roll which comes along with traversing track limited to 15 MPH. 514's consist has paper loads from the Tembec mill in Kapuskasing on the headend, along with a string of freshly painted CN chip cars which came in on freight 516 from Hearst, which were interchanged off the CN Soo Sub.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 09/09/2008
Location: Moonbeam
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 12 Favourites
Where's are we? If it wasn't for that skyline you might think it was some random yard, in the states. However we are just off the CN Rivers Sub in Fort Rouge yard as the daily transfer from the BNSF enters the yard. On the main is a Central Manitoba Railway work train patiently waiting their turn to head for their Carman Sub operation. Just moments prior VIA #1 raced past on the north main.
Name: David Young
Railway: BNML
Date: 10/19/2015
Location: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 7 Favourites
CP 9145 West pulls ahead while the conductor makes his cut on his head end chunk of cars. They will pull west over the crossovers, and get a light to return east and begin their work in the Shepard intermodal terminal, in the east end of Calgary.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/13/2007
Location: Calgary
Province: Alberta
Comments | 7 Favourites
<B>DAY ONE.</b><br><br> OSRX 502 and 501 rest outside Woodstock station on the first day of operations on the St Thomas Sub. The crew had just delivered a string of autoracks to the CP at Jellicoe and now have lunch inside the old CP depot. Once their lunch break is complete they will grab some auto racks to return to CAMI before returning the power to Salford and calling it a day.
Name: David Young
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 12/14/2009
Location: Woodstock
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 12 Favourites
<I>Transisition.</I><br><br> The MP40's were fresh on the scene when I paid my first visit to Bathurst Street. I met up with fellow friend, Brendan Frisina in Hamilton and we rode the GO to Union Station. It was a bitterly cold morning, as the Inglis sign can attest too (it felt closer to -30 with the wind). Lots of green and white passed by, but here the highlight. A westbound VIA, led by P42dc 916 splits a pair of GO trains. Above, on the right, the new generation leads an eastbound train into Union while on the left, veteran F59PH 539 sits waiting for the light to head west to Mimico.
Name: David Young
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 03/02/2009
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 11 Favourites
Lambs to the slaughter.... A string of aluminum CNWX hoppers sit in at Thunder Bay North awaiting the scrappers torch on a rainy, October evening in CN's Port Arthur yard.
Name: David Young
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/12/2008
Location: Thunder Bay
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 6 Favourites
It amazes this photographer how American Class 1 railways still have small operations toiling away on isolated rails far from their own mainlines. The BNSF has one such example, and it exists within the confines of Manitoba's capital. Now known as Burlington Northern Santa Fe (Manitoba), more commonly referred to as the BNML (Burlington Northern Manitoba Ltd. -given to it after the merger between Burlington Northern and Great Northern Railroads in 1971).<br> I know little of the operation, but they own little trackage and serve only a few customers, with their traffic being forward by CN to BNSF in Noyes, Minnesota. This day the crew in BNSF GP39-3 2694 hauls a long transfer (50ish? cars) around the curve at Portage Jct. and into CN's Fort Rouge yard. After setting off their drag, they would couple onto a dozen cars for the short return trip to home rails. I would like to hear some comments from anyone more knowledgeable about the operation.
Name: David Young
Railway: BNML
Date: 10/20/2015
Location: Winnipeg
Province: Manitoba
4 Comments | 7 Favourites
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