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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 | 20 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 | 19 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

1 Comments | 20 Favourites

Having made a stop prior to occupying the crossing (note the stop sign), the circuit is triggered and the lights are activated for the crossing in downtown Stayner. The conductor can be seen keeping a watchful eye for any eastbound traffic along Highway 26 as the engineer throttles up and blows a "14L". This crossing was unique in the fact the signals were mounted on opposite sides of the road than usually seen (in this case mounted on the northside of the westbound lane but protecting the eastbound traffic and vice versa on the other side)- perhaps the reasoning was something to do with the side streets coming off their respective sides of the crossing? <br>

In about thirteen hundred feet the conductor will be down, trudging through the snow as he works to <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6942"> exchange the one loaded hopper in tow for the three empties on spot in the siding for F.S. Partners</a>.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Cando
Date:	02/24/2009
Location:	Stayner
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 11 Favourites

During a circuitous road trip through northern Ontario in 2010, Kyle Stefanovic and myself stumbled across OVR's "The Grimmer". Bound for the Tembec paper mill in Temiscaming, Quebec we decided to find the closest thing to a north-south stretch of track for the best possible light and Birchs Road near Nippising Junction fit the bill. RLK GP38 2002- GEXR GP38AC 3835 and GEXR GP40 4019 head up the train with a healthy mix of slurry tanks, boxcars and chemicals for the mill. Less than a year previous (December 2009) CP had stopped operating their bridge intermodal traffic over the line. Today Genesee and Wyoming operate the last vestiges of the CP North Bay Sub and the branch up the the mill in Temiscaming (as well as the Cartier Sub to Sudbury(Coniston).

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ottawa Valley Rail…
Date:	10/05/2010
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 11 Favourites

Little train in a big landscape. Mount McKay towers in the background over the farmers fields dotting the land west of Thunder Bay. Westbound train 441 departs the Lakehead with CP 9011-9023-5925-SOO 4420 powering the short train. Trailing in train are "slugs" CP 1021 and 1002, both Toronto based daughter units headed westbound likely for servicing as the 1002 would show up back in Toronto Yard throughout the early 2010's.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/28/2009
Location:	Thunder Bay
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 17 Favourites

Having completed their switching duties in the north end of Guelph, the crew of Ontario Southland's job (only one at the time) returns through downtown Guelph passing through the W.C. Woods parking lot and underneath the old tell tale, enroute to working Huntsman Chemical. Seen under the CN overpass in the distance, bringing up the rear in classic fashion is former CP van, OSRX 434462.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	01/12/2007
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 18 Favourites

A throwback to when both CP and CN serviced the CAMI auto compound. CP's afternoon Woodstock job is in the process of backing in a string of auto's while the top of CN GP9RM 7025 can be seen in the distance to the left. On December 14, 2009 both CN and CP would disappear from the scene and Ontario Southland would take over the switching contract delivering auto's to CN in Ingersoll and CP in Woodstock. As of 2022 the plant will switch to producing fully electric commercial vehicles which is rumoured not to require rail service. Clarification from anyone is welcome!

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/16/2009
Location:	Ingersoll
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

An overview of the west end of CP's North Yard at Kenora- once a fairly steady yard filtering cars for the local industries in town and along the line, now downgraded to storage only finds a work train tied down in track one with a loaded GREX "Slot Train" and an eclectic lash up of CMQ 9020-CP 5875- CP 6011- CP 6225- CP 6031 with CN ES44AC 3866 rounding out the consist. The crew will be called later in the evening in the failing light to double up track ten consisting of the GREX "Dump Train" plus a couple bulkhead flats before doubling onto the waiting empty IMS spine seen at the west end of track eleven, departing west for Winnipeg soon after. Over in track nine the tailend of a partially unloaded eastbound Herzog train bound for Dyment Pit (for reload) can be seen- it had the recently repainted/ re-stenciled CP 9022 with CP 6054....

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Central Maine and …
Date:	06/13/2022
Location:	Kenora
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 15 Favourites

Whenever the Ontario Northland comes to mind I think Chevrons, boxcars and those uniquely stylized flanger signs. This image checks those boxes. It's nearing the end of the day on Monday, October 4, 2010 and 414's crew is lifting 27 AbitibiBowater paper loads off the Iroquois Falls Subdvision. When the crew left Englehart that morning they only had the solo SD75i 2100 and a paltry 8 cars (7 destined for Iroquois Falls). Leaving Cochrane in the evening with a much larger train and veteran SD40-2 1737 added for the influx of southbound tonnage the train will be over 70 cars ex "Welsh" (Porquis Junction). This may seem like a lot of traffic but it's just a backlog of traffic due to service reductions following the 2008 recession. ONR hadn't visited in a number of days as 213/414's crew would only make the run north to Cochrane twice a week. AbitibiBowater later restructured into todays "Resolute Forest Products" and shuttered the mill in late 2014.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	10/04/2010
Location:	Iroquois Falls
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

The return of the Mac's. Having being laid up the bulk of 2009, a number of SD90Mac's were reactivated throughout 2010 and were fairly common to see in the grain pool. Here we see CP 9131-9125 in full dynamics as the engineer completes navigating the heavy grade descent eastward out of Buda and into Finmark.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/10/2010
Location:	Finmark
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 12 Favourites

Splitting the signals and splitting waterways, CMQ 9020 East splits the frozen waterways of Lake of the Woods (foreground) and the Winnipeg River (background) as they pass the signals at Keewatin, Ontario with an intriguing visitor trailing... BNSF SD70MAC 9413. Having unloaded rail on the Keewatin, the crew is eastbound approaching Kenora for more paperwork to head out onto the Ignace Sub to dump another string of rail before tying up for the night in the back track at Hawk Lake.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/28/2022
Location:	Kenora
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 15 Favourites

Exiting Wallaceburg, the crew of D924 is southbound passing the northbound approach for the swing bridge located at the North Siding Switch Wallaceburg. This days consist is made up of hoppers for Tupperville and 3 tanks for Sombra. But due to north facing switches requires the crew to traverse the extent of the (then in service portion of the) Sarnia Sub to Dresden to run around their train before working the industries on their return trip.

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

2 Comments | 23 Favourites

Normally by this time of year we have seen shots of CP's Holiday Train as it travels across Canada. 2021 marked the second year in a row of it's annulment due in thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic cancelling its tour through Canada and the States. However CP did hold another virtual Holiday Train, streamed live from their Ogden HQ in Calgary on December 18th. I offer up this image from a couple years ago of the Holiday Train rolling into their stop at Kenora, Ontario as people gather for the free concert and more importantly, donations to local food banks. Here's to hoping see a return in 2022.<br><br>
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/03/2018
Location:	Kenora
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

The crew of the day Woodstock yard is rolling through the empty farm fields of Middlesex County on a gorgeous Spring day. GP9u's CP 8201 and STLH 8245 are (timetable) eastbound with 4 loaded frame cars ex Formet in St Thomas destined for the Oshawa GM plant. Bringing up the rear is a hopper destined for Putnam which has been towed the length of the line and back. The crew will set it off and lift five before returning to Woodstock.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/24/2009
Location:	Gladstone
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 12 Favourites

With the final chapter closing on this rail line, it's time to take a look back through it's era's. My run in's with this line came during the "Cando Era" throughout the early 2000's. Little did I know at the time this would be my last time chasing the line and my last time catching the old girl powering a train along the line. In this image CCGX GP9 1000 is approaching Olde Baseline Road crossing just south of the hamlet of Inglewood, rolling through the Caledon Country Club on it's northbound journey back to Orangeville. <br><br>CCGX 1000 would be replaced by GP9RM 4009 later this summer and made her final run November 1, 2008 heading up the northbound run of a Credit Valley Explorer excursion. She would be put into storage for a couple years before being reactivated working a spur line in Bath, Ontario. After her retirement she was sent to the CEMR deadline in Winnipeg, MB where she continued to languish until being scrapped in December 2021.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Cando
Date:	06/20/2008
Location:	Inglewood
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 16 Favourites

<i>Here's lookin' at you!</i> Having crew changed and job briefed the outgoing Ignace Sub crew has the 41B on the move. The conductor having some fun for the camera.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/09/2021
Location:	Ignace
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 14 Favourites

Pictured in less than ideal lighting conditions, <a href="https://www.cpr.ca/en/community/every-child-matters-locomotive">The Truth and Reconciliation livery</a> pauses in Ignace for a crew change. While seemingly a bright and colourful livery, it reflects on a dark period of Canadian history. Released on the first "National Day for Truth and Reconciliation" on September 30, 2021 it will roam the rails, bringing awareness about the atrocities that unfolded for years at residential schools across Canada.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/04/2021
Location:	Ignace
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 21 Favourites

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/30/2021
Location:	Gravel
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

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