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About Eric May


Raised in Peterborough, Ontario. Spent the 80's in Scarborough and now in Barrie.

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Number of images: 131
Total gold: 828
Number of comments recieved : 144
Number of comments posted : 246
Total views: 115171



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Power change at Calgary. 1402, a B unit and RS-10 8558 have just been replaced by 1406, 1965 and 1423. 10 months after taking over CP's passenger services VIA's equipment was still in the rainbow phase.
Name: Eric May
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 7/1979
Location: Calgary
Province: Alberta
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
A matched pair of FPA-4's haul 9 cars westbound. One of my Brothers shots.
Name: Eric May
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 9/1979
Location: Port Hope
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
An FPA-4 and 2 GM B units roll 11 cars west. My Brother's photo turned out better than mine. I was shooting from the opposite side of the train. My shot had some brush in the way.
Name: Eric May
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 9/1979
Location: Port Hope
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
Orillia's Rotary Railroad in Couchiching Park tends to fly under the radar. It runs on summer weekends in the afternoons.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Tourist
Date: 08/30/2015
Location: Orillia
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
The Turbo passes a rail train putting down rail on a muggy August day. One of my brothers photos.
Name: Eric May
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 08/1981
Location: Port Hope
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 10 Favourites
As the westbound Super Continental gets serviced, a porter takes a break. A photo by my Mother of my Brother and I heading up past the escaping steam to take a look at the motive power. The rounded window on the car in the foreground gives away the cars Milwaukee Road heritage.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/1972
Location: Hornepayne
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 12 Favourites
An A-B-A set of F units hauls 9 cars towards Toronto. One of my brothers photos. He used part of his student loan to by a Pentax K-1000. (priorities)
Name: Eric May
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 9/1979
Location: Port Hope
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
A red barn and a SOO SD-60 wait out the weekend a long way from the jobs they were built for.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/16/2011
Location: Midhurst
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
8863 in Olympic paint leads an intermodal south at Midhurst as an oak leaf drifts in to the scene. 8736 was pushing on the rear
Name: Eric May
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/12/2008
Location: Midhurst
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
Before operations began on the South Simcoe railway the equipment was stored close to Mill street. The last time I had seen the equipment it was stored near the LCBO warehouse in Toronto back in 1981. Having ridden behind 136 & 1057 in the 70's it was great to see them again.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Tourist
Date: 06/1991
Location: Tottenham
Province: Ontario
Comments | 4 Favourites
136 is about to ease forward for the first run of the day.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Tourist
Date: 09/11/2011
Location: Tottenham
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
N 4135 has just crossed Bayfield Street with a single tank car bound for Stepan Canada in Longford Mills. This portion of the Newmarket Sub was lifted in 1996. Longford Mills is now serviced out of Huntsville and Wayne Shaw gets to take photos of it. One nice thing about the Newmarket Sub wrapping around Kempenfelt Bay was that if you heard a train you usually had time to get to a place to see it. My Blue 86 Honda Civic is to the right of the train, so I must have made a quick trip from the office. With the exception of the condo building, everything has changed.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/1991
Location: Barrie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
Engine 1531 is about to be lifted and placed on a flatbed trailer for its journey to the Simcoe County Museum. The engine and Caboose 79374 were relocated to allow the City of Barrie to replace a watermain and relocate Lakeshore Drive on to the former Newmarket Sub right of way.The rails of the Newmarket Sub between Barrie and Rama were lifted in the fall of 1996. The new road should be done in 2016.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/18/2008
Location: Barrie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
Forgotten but endangered. This Telltale served to warn riders on cars approaching the bridge over Bathurst Street.The spur it was on ran from the CPR Fez City yard towards the Canada Malting Elevator.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/21/2012
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 3 Favourites
Outposting. Not something you see too often during the current management regime. Back in 2012 this pair of units was working a rail train and would tie up at Midhurst. Not much happens at Midhurst any more apart from OCS gondolas or an occasional bad order set out.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/20/2012
Location: Midhurst
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
As the dragon flies look on, the 6:54 train returns the the yard.
Name: Eric May
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 08/04/2015
Location: Barrie
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 4 Favourites
Pick a track. When the Allandale Waterfront station was built the Barrie-Collingwood line to Innisfil was moved closer to Gowan Ave. The chances of seeing a BCRY train adjacent a GO train would be pretty slim.
Name: Eric May
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 07/23/2015
Location: Barrie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 6 Favourites
If you are going to replace ties in +30 degree weather, you might as well work in the shade. This job was done by noon.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Cando
Date: 29/08/2015
Location: Barrie
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
1057 developed a running gear problem on an excursion to Havelock. Repairs were made and the excursion was short turned on the wye at Dranoel. Prior to returning a runpast was done on this S curve. We were waiting in Peterborough for the train and drove out when we heard of the problem. This photo was likely taken by my mother. I'm standing to the right of my dad in the plaid jacket
Name: Eric May
Railway: Preservation
Date: 10/1975
Location: Dranoel
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 8 Favourites
The southbound Canadian passes the UCRS "Huronia Limited" excursion in the siding At Carley. Two CN FPA-4's pulled the train over the Mactier Sub to Medonte, branching off onto the remnant of the Port McNicoll sub and then on the CN Midland sub, stopping at the Hoggs Bay trestle. The excursion was running late, so seeing the Canadian was a bonus.
Name: Eric May
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/07/1975
Location: Carley
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
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