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Sunrise in the Intercity. Stored centrebeams in CN's side of "D Yard", while a string of grain loads are observed in CP's portion of "D Yard", blocking the view of Vancouver to Toronto train 110-17, who is moments away from pounding the diamond with CN's Kashabowie Sub in Thunder Bay's Intercity with CP 9771-9564 leading.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/20/2009
Location:	Thunder Bay
Province:	Ontario

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The crew of the afternoon Current River job pauses inside the gate of Viterra "C House" (still called "ugga" by crews referring to United Grain Growers A House) before gathering up tracks of grain empties with CP 1522-1640-1574. In the background the abandoned and decrepit Pool 4A and 4B complex, while behind that the yellow top of JRI's massive grain terminal can be seen. Due to the grades throughout the Current River yard, tonnage handled and 4-axle restrictions in places like UGGA (since lifted) and the Great West Timber Spur this job required a trio of Geeps. GP9u's were commonplace, later replaced with GP38-2's. Viterra would close this elevator for a number of years and CP would pull it's crew start out of Current River, consolidating crews to their depot in old Fort William off Syndicate Ave. <br><br>The elevator would remain shuttered until Glencore International took over Viterra in late 2012 resulting in James Richardsons & Sons purchasing this facility. As of 2023 the elevator is operated as overflow for the bigger Richardsons Terminal next door. It is now known on paper as the <i>Current River Elevator</i> however crews still refer to it as "ugga"- decades after United Grain Growers has ever been a thing.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/27/2008
Location:	Thunder Bay
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 17 Favourites

VIA 87 is minutes away from it's on time arrival at Kitchener as it blasts through the small town of Breslau on Kitchener's east side. Almost a decade into the GEXR era on the Guelph Sub, it's amazing how just a little bit of white spray paint can eradicate any hints of CN's former presence along the route.....

Name:	David Young
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	05/30/2007
Location:	Breslau
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 16 Favourites

Paused out front of the depot in downtown Revelstoke during yard spreading operations seen <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43064"> here,</a> SD40-2 CITX 3008 showcases her former owners colours as she idles away with a string of random local cars consisting of an OCS gon followed by 3 bulkhead flats presumably destined for Bell Pole west of town with 4 tank cars of propane for the local fueling company bracketing a b/o coal hopper. CITX 3008 would be purchased by Norfolk Southern and sport painted up in an Operation Livesaver scheme in late 2013/ early 2014, retired and sold in July 2020 to Progress Rail and appears to be have been scrapped as of 2021.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/09/2011
Location:	Revelstoke
Province:	Ontario

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On a day that has given us everything from sun to rain, to sleet and snow along with a constant stiff wind blowing off Lake Huron, a rainbow appears above the crew of GEXR 433 as they prep to depart for the P&H elevator located at the end of track at Centralia to spot 17 cars. Having switched Hensall extensively for the previous 2 hours, collecting the pulls from the towns elevators including a lengthy string from WG Thompsons (out of frame, behind me) and setting off the locals, they will leave town with every track in town plugged with much more work to do on the return trip.... but that will be the recrews problem to deal with after relieving this crew at Centralia.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Rail America
Date:	10/31/2009
Location:	Hensall
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 16 Favourites

CP sent their business train east to Thunder Bay and Schreiber in 2010 to host a week of excursions over the Nipigon and Heron Bay Subs in celebration of their 150th anniversary. Here we capture a special moment as the crew along with a retired CP engineer watch CP 9113 West with train 223-13 take the siding at the east end of Coldwell on the Heron Bay Sub. Once 223 clears the power of the locally dubbed "Superior Flyer" will run around their train, couple up and return to Schreiber.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/14/2010
Location:	Coldwell
Province:	Ontario

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Framed amongst the crossing and old cantilever ABS signals at the south switch Jardine, ONT 2104 South pauses on top of Highway 640 for a brief moment as the crew couples up to their remaining train. Having finished up their switching moves setting off Noranda bound loads of copper concentrate ex Kidd Creek to the north end of Jardine, they will pull down then back into the siding to clear for a meet with Rouyn-Noranda bound train 211.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	08/21/2022
Location:	Dane
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 9 Favourites

The crew of the BNSF's internal shortline BNML (Burlington Northern Manitoba Ltd) pause outside their HQ at the corner of Taylor Avenue and Lindsay Street waiting for permission to enter the CN Rivers Sub to interchange with CN at Fort Rouge. Meanwhile the (timetable) westbound CP "Altona" creeps up to the crossing awaiting their signal over the CN Rivers Sub at St. James Junction with CP GP20C-ECO's 2217-2325 and a lengthy consist.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	BNML
Date:	08/20/2018
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

Photobombed! A pigeon cuts through the frame just above the headend power of Thunder Bay to Winnipeg freight 441. Having doubled up their tracks in E yard the crew are beginning the trek across the Kam Sub with a duo of EMD SD90Mac's 9151 and 9101.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/07/2010
Location:	Thunder Bay
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

<i>"Throttle Eight, don't be late!</i> The engineer of this Thunder Bay yard job has unleashed all the horses of his two GP38-2's as the CP 3128 and CP 3029 struggle to lift a track of grain loads at "the Pocket", creating this spectacular scene, covering the intercity area in a cloud of diesel exhaust.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/20/2010
Location:	Thunder Bay
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

Eastbound Vancouver to Toronto intermodal 110-07 arrives at Westfort with CP 8876 - CP 9582 - CP 8553 leading. CP 8876 sports the 2010 Vancouver Olympic paint scheme, one of 20 ES44AC locomotives (CP 8858-8877) painted in this special scheme to commemorate the 2010 Winter Olympics. Soon after the 2010 Olympic flame was extinguished all the units were returned to the current Canadian Pacific block stencil. All except the 8876 which continues to roam the system with the bare white slash on its flanks with the small Canadian Pacific red print remaining. Any trace of the 2010 Vancouver insignia has been painted over. The Current River triple set having hauled two empties from the Richardson's elevator, is seen parked in track A1 while their crew has their lunch in the nearby "Westfort shack". Power was CP GP9u's CP 1633-CP 1571-CP 1694.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/10/2009
Location:	Thunder Bay
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

Hearst bound with bridge traffic for the CN at Hearst along with a handful of cars for the local industries, Ontario Northland SD40-2's 1733 and 1734 are in charge of a 29 car consist crossing over the Missinaibi River at Mattice, Ontario.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	08/19/2022
Location:	Mattice
Province:	Ontario

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It's not a pretty sight at Mile 31.5 Soo Sub. For the old station that dates back to construction of the Algoma Central Railway, the 1902 structure does not appear to have much time left. A blazoned wound cut right across its front, left from when the platform canopy collapsed in 2014. The siding still hints at where the canopy protected passengers from the suns rays. The eaves are disintegrating and the roof has begun to give way. The lower windows have been board up for years while the upper floor windows have been smashed by vandals. A few banners hang on her north and south sides of a promised renewal which seems to have failed. The place still invites whomever or whatever would like to visit its messy, decrepit insides. No doubt an invitation for a quick and easy cleanup....

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Algoma Central
Date:	09/03/2022
Location:	Searchmont
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 14 Favourites

Having relocated from St. Thomas to Waterloo earlier in the 2007, the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society (SOLRS) initially ran excursions between Waterloo and St. Jacobs. The group brings their pride and joy, former Essex Terminal Railway 0-6-0 No. 9 out for special occasions a number of times a year. The Oktoberfest weekend is one of them. In this image the old steamer has some of the locals curiosity at the former Waterloo-St. Jacobs replica station in Waterloo as volunteers prep her for another trip north to the Farmers Market. Number 9 would not be able to make the trip due to a hot journal and would remain in Waterloo. <br>As of 2022 things have changed significantly. While the replica station still stands, installation of double track, catenary lines and a fence for the ION LRT have now forever changed this scene. Waterloo Central is based out of St. Jacobs and runs along CN's Waterloo Spur between Northfield Drive (where the ION branches off the Waterloo Spur's right-of-way) to Elmira.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Waterloo Central
Date:	10/06/2007
Location:	Waterloo
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

Seen amidst the goldenrod and long grasses at CN's Mission Yard in Thunder Bay, former CN GMD1 1420 (nee CN 1058) now stenciled CCGX 1011 works in Cando's employ pulling and switching grain cars for CN and CP.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Cando
Date:	09/04/2022
Location:	Thunder Bay
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

The northbound Agawa Canyon Tour train rolls through Searchmont, Ontario passing the foregone and dilapidated station. Built in 1902 it's the final station still standing along the line dating from the railroads construction. There had been an organization attempting to restore it but it seems like the attempts have fallen short as information is slim online and their website is no longer active.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Agawa Canyon Railr…
Date:	09/03/2022
Location:	Searchmont
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 20 Favourites

Passing the Ontario Northland bunkhouse, freight 313 arrives from Cochrane while off to the side CN 5446 and CN 2508 sit parked awaiting to come on duty later that afternoon. The power from the incoming freight will cut off here and nose onto their waiting train just behind the camera, departing just as quickly as they arrived. One track over sits the ONR yard engine, which will couple onto this inbound traffic and sort out the locals before setting up any outbound traffic for the CN to take south to their main at Oba. With the sale of the former Algoma Central south of Oba and subsequent closure of Hawk Junction, a job has been established in Hearst and as of summer of 2022 runs Monday thru Friday.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	08/19/2022
Location:	Hearst
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

ONT 2103 and ONT 1740 head up heavy southbound tonnage on Cochrane to Englehart freight 414 as it thunders across Highway 572 just north of Ramore, Ontario.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	08/19/2022
Location:	Ramore
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 18 Favourites

No longer legible, the old mile marker for Mile 110.3 Kapuskasing Sub still adorns the old code line pole at the edge of the Missinaibi River. Above, Ontario Northland freight 516 rolls with GP38-2 1801 leading GP40-2 2201 and a healthy string of cars. The trailing string of hoppers will be dropped at Opasatika (destined for the Agrium Mine south of Opaz Junction) while the headend eight cars will continue through to Kapuskasing where the crew will meet their counterpart ex Cochrane and exchange traffic before returning.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	09/09/2008
Location:	Mattice
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

Tipped off there was a work train ordered up ex Hornepayne that morning, my good friend Kyle Stefanovic and I set out of Thunder Bay mid morning bound for Jellicoe- working on a hunch solely based off a train symbol which had been used previously for crews pulling the Kinghorn that could have been used for anything else! There were no guarantees we would see anything other than what was left of the former crew change point in the middle of nowhere Ontario. We arrived shortly after 14:00 to a lifeless scene. The trees barren, the ground brown and dead. It was a warm and beautiful spring day but the colour green was still a month and change away... The three track yard had been removed while the mainline, siding and wye remained intact as well as the boarded up bunkhouse. As we sat in my little '04 Honda Civic trying to figure out an ETA, if in fact they were even destined for the Kinghorn. Knowing the order time, (what we figured the) run time on the Caramat Sub to Longlac Jct was plus the run time to Jellicoe at the lowly speed of 15mph it'd be anytime around the 15:00 hour. As we continued to chat to our amazement there was a chirp over the radio...
<br><br>"Ok ahead 908."
<br><br>Unbelievable! Our excitement could not be contained as our hunch had paid off. The lights of CN SD40-2W 5305 rounded the curve at the east end of the former yard along the mainline. I composed this image of the veteran unit and old GTW caboose 79047 running down the mainline past the abandoned and boarded up bunkhouse.<br><br>The crew setoff GTW 79047 at the west end of the siding, before returning to their train of empty CWR cars left at the east siding switch. The train would be pulled into the siding and left behind as the crew coupled up to the awaiting caboose ahead of them and shove some 40 plus miles west to another waiting CWR train sitting in the middle of the bush west of Orient Bay. We followed to Beardmore where we were forced to break off the chase due to commitments back in town.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/19/2010
Location:	Jellicoe
Province:	Ontario

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