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Accelerating out of Thunder Bay, the era's "Switcher" rolls over Neebing Ave westbound with work at locations like Dryden, Vermilion Bay, Trus Joist and Kenora. <br><br>

A number of things here have changed in the years since this shot. <br><br>

First off, the SD90Mac trailing disappeared the year after this photo was taken- only to languish for about decade before being rebuilt into an SD70ACu. The "farm leads" loaded with boxcars for the local paper mill were taken our of service and the tracks removed in the coming years, while the smoke stack from the local OPG plant puffing away here, came down sometime in 2021. Progress.....

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/19/2012
Location:	Thunder Bay
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

Having completed their switch at Owens Corning Fibreglass, Ontario Southland Conductor Mercer rides the footstep in anticipation of his next task, flagging vehicular traffic approaching the crossing on York Road. Those SHPX hoppers looked so clean in the first decade of the 21st Century. Compare it to this shot by <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44686"> Mr. Host</a> over a decade later, they have really got their "tan" on.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	12/18/2009
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 16 Favourites

Thunder Bay to Fort Frances freight CN 437 is making good time through the small town of Kakabeka Falls with a duo of veteran cowls in the lead. Passing the razed station site of the station, replaced with a mundane shack used for MoW employees decked out in that lovely beige siding. The double station name signs framing both sides of the main herald back to better times with this section of right of way was double tracked. For those keeping track power was behind the lead SD60F was sister CN 5533. Behind them, a pulp car destined for pulp load out at the back track at Annex.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/18/2008
Location:	Kakabeka Falls
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

A busy scene at the elevator in Tupperville, Ontario. Grain dust fills the air as a transport takes on a load of area grain. The conductor of D924 has bent the iron to gain access to the last customer serviced by CSX on the former C&O Sub 2 south of Sarnia to exchange the four grain loads with four empties. CSX ceased service through here in October 2013 and the rails have remained silent ever since.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	CSX Transportation
Date:	05/11/2009
Location:	Tupperville
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 12 Favourites

The westbound Huron Central freight is seen approaching McKerrow with HCRY GP40-3 3802, HCRY RM-1 802, QGRY GP38 2008 and HCRY GP40-2LW 3013 hauling 131 cars. The "above average" length of this freight was due to G&W shuttering operations in the weeks prior as they were looking for a handout from the government in the range of $30 million to upgrade and upkeep the tracks. With terms agreed to, Huron Central gathered up many of the cars dwelling in Sudbury and set off down the Webbwood Sub. After a couple of switching moves at McKerrow the crew will head south down the last remnants of the Little Current Sub to service the pulp and paper mill in Espanola.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Huron Central Rail…
Date:	08/22/2009
Location:	McKerrow
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 12 Favourites

Wintertime in the mountains can be gorgeous, but it is a fickle enchantress. My fear of being stuck on the highway by an avalanche or accident kept me grounded close to home. Needless to say I didn't get out much during my stint in the mountains, but being home with code blue skies and an early afternoon westbound departing Revelstoke I headed to the Last Spike to see what I could work with. Pillowy snow coated everything at the historical landmark 45 km west of Revelstoke which is run by the Revelstoke Museum. The angles are tight here, and I tried my best to frame the Vancouver bound hotshot amongst the old CP van, monument and gift shop while also trying to get over the chain-link fence and deal with those pesky hydro wires. For those keeping track CP 9665 went through the rebuild program and came out as AC4400CWM CP 8109.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/25/2011
Location:	Craigellachie
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 10 Favourites

The Hearst yard engine (ONT 2200) has cleared after building 516's outgoing train, seen to the left. Having cut off their inbound train from Cochrane<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=49837">(pictured here)</a>, the set of SD40-2's prepare to nose onto their train while the yard helper hitches a ride to normal the crossover switches. After switching engines and cutting in the brake line, 516 will be on the move "south" out of town, bound for Cochrane. The Hearst engine will couple up and begin to disassemble the inbound 313 consist before continuing the tasks of servicing the local industries.

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

Comments | 14 Favourites

Cando's back up switcher is in the process of running around their tank cars (out of frame) having just completed their switch of the chemical sheds at Dryden's Domtar Mill. Usually they run with a single GP38-2, but that unit has been down for a number of months and this former CN switcher has been tasked with handling the switching.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Cando
Date:	04/28/2023
Location:	Dryden
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 11 Favourites

An overview the tight track layout at Dryden's Domtar Mill. Cando SW1200RS 1008 has completed its switch of the chemical plant and is in the process of running around two cars (1 caustic and 1 acid). The boxcars spotted up top are beside the former stud mill which rarely sees any cars spotted inside anymore. Down the hill in the background, you can make out a solo boxcar sitting on the track that leads to the pulp and paper shed, behind that is a string of boxcars in one of two tracks that are used for lifts and set offs. CPKC train number 420 can be seen accelerating from their earlier stop to drop off traffic for the mill. Further to the left a pair of tracks can be seen with a number of tank cars and sodium clorate hoppers, stored awaiting their spot. Both these tracks were originally used to load IMS containers. This mill use to pump out fine paper that would be loaded in containers and lifted by a 100 series freight (107/108 iirc). This traffic ended around the time of the 2008 recession. CP serviced this industry up until August 2014. This mill is currently up for sale, one of the many mills that is required to be sold after the Domtar's parent company, Paper Excellence's acquisition of Resolute Forest Products.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Cando
Date:	04/28/2023
Location:	Dryden
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

Having dropped a flatcar (presumably to load some new culverts) at the back track in Temagami, Englehart bound freight 113 is back up to track speed with their respectable sized freight and six locomotives 2104-1805-PRLX 2270-2101-2102-2105. Storm clouds are building and by the time the train reaches Englehart, the crew will have to yard their train under threat of Tornado Warnings.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	08/20/2022
Location:	Temagami North
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 7 Favourites

<b><i>First Encounters.</i></b> My daughter watches on from the parking lot of the local antique market as the crew of Ontario Southland's Tillsonburg South job (aptly nicknamed the Cayuga Clipper) are in the midst of lifting one of two cars at Agromart in Courtland. Power for the day were a pair of SW1200RS' 1244-1249.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	04/11/2019
Location:	Courtland
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 14 Favourites

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

Comments | 11 Favourites

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 | 19 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

Comments | 14 Favourites

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 | 17 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

Comments | 15 Favourites

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

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