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I was born and raised in Capreol, Ontario. I worked for CN in the Area Engineering Office during the summers of 1965 and 1966. During the summers of 1967-1969, I worked as a brakeman out of Capreol. In the fall of 1969, I transferred to the Great Lakes Regional offices in Toronto. I left CN in 1975 to join the transportation department of Ontario Hydro. I moved to the USA in 1989. I am still an active photographer.

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The locomotive of the Speno rail grinding train is pictured on the wye track at Capreol, Ontario. This has to be one of the more ugly GP38-2s ever created!
Name: First954
Railway: Maintenance of Way
Date: 08/01/1987
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 5 Favourites
The CP water tank at Binscarth, MB was enclosed to protect its contents from the brutally cold winter weather.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/20/1978
Location: Binscarth
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 3 Favourites
The Binscarth, MB station was "right sized" for the town it served.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/20/1978
Location: Binscarth
Province: Manitoba
2 Comments | 9 Favourites
The Toronto section of CN's Super Continental, train # 4, drifts through Laforest, Ontario on August 21st 1972. Power for the train is a classic A-B-B set of General Motors passenger units.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/21/1972
Location: Laforest
Province: Ontario
Comments | 18 Favourites
Fresh from a rebuild by CN in Montreal, SP 6333 (formerly 7461) takes a break on its trip back home at Toronto Yard on June 3 1979. CN rebuilt a batch of GP35s for the Southern Pacific.
Name: First954
Railway: Other
Date: 06/03/1979
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 11 Favourites
CP Track Recording Car # 63 basks in the sun on a pleasant October afternoon at Agincourt Yard.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/06/1979
Location: Agincourt
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 13 Favourites
CN freight train #301 pulls past the Capreol, Ontario station on September 2, 1979. Power for the train is 8,000 HP in the form of GP38-2 5514 (wearing only one white flag, but both white class lights on) and GP40-2L(W)s 9413 and 9606. Interesting load first up!!
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/02/1979
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 9 Favourites
CN 3151, a steam generator car, a former Crusader coach, and a standard coach make up the entire consist of CN's Friday only train 97 as it approaches Richmond Hill, Ontario. The right of way has been prepared for the soon to be added second track at this location to accommodate GO service.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/27/1977
Location: Richmond Hill
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
A westbound Canadian Pacific freight passes the Sudbury, Ontario station under the watchful eyes of a CP constable. I wonder what would happen if I attempted to take the picture under the same circumstances today. Power for the train was classic CP at the time: from the front: 8639-4221-84xx-44xx-4069.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/00/1968
Location: Sudbury
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
A westbound Canadian Pacific freight picks up orders on the move as it passes the Sudbury, Ontario station. Note the train order hoop taking a bounce beside the lead unit. The operator with the hoop and orders for the tail end is barely visible behind the guy who walked in front of me at the most inopportune time! Power for the train is CP classic for the time period: 8639-4221-84xx-44xx-4069.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/00/1968
Location: Sudbury
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 11 Favourites
Via Rail's Canadian, train 9, screams past the CN station at Maple, Ontario on Sunday August 17th 1986. The 11 car train is powered by FPA-4 6765 and a pair of F9Bs 6621 and 6618. This could have been one of the last occasions where an FPA-4 was leading.
Name: First954
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 08/13/1986
Location: Maple
Province: Ontario
Comments | 15 Favourites
Parked beside the roundhouse in Capreol, Ontario is this interesting piece of work equipment. Starting life as a 40 foot wood sided steel under frame box car sometime in the mid 1920s, it was converted in the 1960s to a roofless box car with extended sides and used in wood chip service. It was subsequently converted to this boom car to be used with CN pile driver 50825. Note that the car still carries its revenue service car number. The high brake wheel is visible through the now removed extension.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/00/1968
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
CN freight train 474 heads out of Capreol, Ontario with passenger unit 6754 leading. Built only 11 years apart, these Montreal Locomotive Works graduates look good!
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/00/1967
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 10 Favourites
CP train 12, the Toronto section of the Canadian, heads out of Sudbury on May 23, 1969. Power for the train is 4094 and 1905.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/23/1969
Location: Sudbury
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 18 Favourites
The switching of CP's eastbound Canadian is well underway at Sudbury, Ontario on July 22nd, 1969. The inbound train # 2, arrived with an A-B-A set of F units. Per CP's practice at the time, the middle unit was set off at Sudbury. It would return west on that nights # 1. I never understood why CP would not simply set off the trailing unit, and add it back to the westbound train in the trailing position, rather than go through the extra work of cutting out the middle unit and adding it back in to # 1 in the middle position. This seemed like a lot of extra work. The yard crew would eventually take the B-unit to the roundhouse. From left, the units are: 1904, 7091, 1410 and 1417.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/22/1969
Location: Sudbury
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
On a bitterly cold January 19th, 1969, a trio of MLW units, in the form of 3217, 3235, and 2010 rest on the shop track at Capreol, Ontario. I find it hard to believe that more than 50 years have passed since I took this photograph. How time flies.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 01/19/1969
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 15 Favourites
Canadian Pacific's Canadian, Train # 2, nears the end of its detour over CN tracks as it heads out of Capreol. The train is running as "Passenger Extra CP 1413 South". The other two units are 1907 and 8580. What's missing from this photo is CN 4-8-2, 6077, which will, in a few months time, be placed in the vacant area to the left of the train. Lots of interesting stuff in the background.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/00/1967
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
CN leased a bunch of units to the L&N railway in the mid-1970s. This is the condition of GP40 4011 when it was returned to CN. It also explains why it was never renumbered.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/02/1978
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 12 Favourites
CN's morning Rapido, train 61, has just arrived in Toronto on track 1 behind ice cover units 6760 6862 and 6774.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/14/1971
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
As CP Extra 5610 North sits in the siding at Rutter, Ontario, VIA's southbound Canadian, probably # 10 at the time (my VIA/CP time tables and memory elude me at this time) flies by on the main line. Notice the conductor (brakeman) hiding in the bushes to give the passenger train its roll-by. This track was ABS territory at the time. It was really unusual(to me) to see the freight waiting in the siding looking at a Clear (green) signal; only to have it turn to red (stop) when the passenger train entered the block. Then about 10-12 minutes later the Canadian appears. As soon as it cleared, the signal turned green and the freight proceeded. Power on the Canadian was 6553 and 6653.
Name: First954
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 06/07/1986
Location: Rutter
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
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