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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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A comparison of small multi marks at CP's Agincourt Yard in suburban Toronto, March 1975.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/09/1975
Location: Agincourt
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
CN train 474 heads south out of Capreol, Ontario on April 6, 1969. Power for the train is GP9 4585 and leased QNS&L SD40 202. Typical crappy early spring day with the ground still snow covered.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/06/1969
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
Comments | 9 Favourites
Built only three months before this picture was taken, HSCX-1 appears to have had a relatively hard life so far. It is sitting on the RIP track in Capreol, Ontario missing the A-end hand rails and the steps are bent up a little. Wish I had also taken that ash gondola peaking out from behind!
Name: First954
Railway: Builder/Manufactur…
Date: 05/00/1968
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 13 Favourites
Ontario Northland train 122 drifts south through Richmond Hill, Ontario on CN's Bala Subdivision. This photo was taken 43 years ago and OH how things have changed in this area. In this photo, the new second track for GO is in place, but the original CN track is still jointed rail. These European locomotive wonders did not last very long and were soon replaced by repurposed FP7s.
Name: First954
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 06/19/1977
Location: Richmond Hill
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
CN S13 switcher 8514 shoves of nice mix of VIA and CN power towards Union Station for an outbound passenger train. Behind the 8514 are 6542 3120 and an unknown 6500.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/30/1979
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
TH&B caboose number 62, minus a couple of side windows, rests at CP's Agincourt Yard on September 15th 1979. Location within the yard is approximate.
Name: First954
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 09/15/1979
Location: Agincourt
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
CN's first safety cab unit from General Motors awaits assignment at MacMillan Yard on June 24, 1973. Note the black, as delivered, cab numbers which were quickly painted white. I believe this unit was delivered a month after MLW delivered their version of the safety cab; June vs May 1973.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/24/1973
Location: Concord
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
Making its maiden trip west, CN M-420(W) 2501, leads train 201 into the yard at Capreol, Ontario on June 3 1973.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/03/1973
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
7 Comments | 11 Favourites
On a very rainy and overcast Saturday June 15, 1974, the Ontario Government ran a passenger train from Toronto to Midland. The train consisted of equipment from GO Transit, CN, and Ontario Northland. Running as Passenger Extra GO 9861 North, it is seen here passing CN's St. Clair Avenue station. Units include GO 9861, CN 3112, 3113, and 3114 and GO 9859. An unknown CN Steam Generator Car followed the locomotives. Rumor has it that the train never returned to Toronto that evening as planned as the one or more of the units derailed at Midland as they were running around the train for the return trip. A number of other interested people showed up to see the train pass.
Name: First954
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 06/15/1974
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
11 Comments | 24 Favourites
Variety!!! The inbound motive power receiving tracks at the north end of Toronto Yard's diesel shop were always an interesting place back in the middle 1970s for you never knew what to expect. Here is a good example and at that time all you had to do was sign a release, put on safety glasses, and a blue hard hat and the yard was yours to enjoy. I was never into taking shots of lines of motive power, but I could not resist this combination.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/20/1974
Location: Concord
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 15 Favourites
Saturday only train 96 drifts south on the Newmarket Sub approaching Concord. This short and unusual consist includes: CN 3151, a steam generator car, an ex Reading Crusader coach and a standard coach. Oh, how this area has changed!!!! It is not out in the country any more.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/28/1977
Location: Concord
Province: Ontario
Comments | 16 Favourites
CN 4533 has a van hop up to track speed just east of Clarkson, Ontario and a cold January 1985 afternoon.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 01/19/1985
Location: Clarkson
Province: Ontario
Comments | 20 Favourites
CN GP40-2L(W) 9660 leads 4 others westbound on the York Sub as it approaches the diamond at Snider, Ontario with 77 loaded "pots" and a caboose bringing up the rear. I forget the train number that CN assigned to this movement, but I'm certain it would have last received train orders at Washago which would have identified it as Extra 9660 South. Units were: 9660, 9560, 9461, 9658, and 9579.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/27/1981
Location: Snider
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 12 Favourites
The engineer of an outbound grain train patiently waits for the headend brakeman to return after completing their double over prior to heading east. Six-axle GMD and MLW units were common on the prairies during the 1970s.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/20/1978
Location: Minnedosa
Province: Manitoba
2 Comments | 9 Favourites
CN train 302 with C424 3202 leading heads into the passing track at Gladwick Ontario for a meet with the westbound Panorama. Hard to believe that this picture was taken 53 years ago this month!
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/00/1967
Location: Gladwick
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 20 Favourites
Running a couple of hours late, CN #2 the Super Continental hits the west switch at Stupart, Ontario. Power for the "Super" is a very standard A-B-A set of General Motors units.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/00/1966
Location: Stupart
Province: Ontario
Comments | 18 Favourites
The first and third GP7s built by General Motors in London, Ontario, TH&B 71 and 73 rest side by side at CP's Agincourt Yard on July 29th 1979. There are several subtle differences between the units, such as MU connection position, battery door louvers, paint differences, and train line/signal line. The 71 was wrecked less than 18 months later.
Name: First954
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 07/29/1979
Location: Agincourt
Province: Ontario
Comments | 16 Favourites
CP S-2 yard engine 7090 drags a cut of cars across Elm Street in downtown Sudbury on an extremely drab February 1970 afternoon. No fluffy white Christmas card snow in this picture, just the stark reality of what winter in Northern Ontario really looks like.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/21/1970
Location: Sudbury
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
A CN special train with GP9 4596 creeps over the single track Humber River bridge on CN's Halton Sub with a huge load for Ontario Hydro's Darlington Nuclear Power plant which was under construction at the time. The hoppers were each loaded with about 40 tons of sand for extra braking power.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/28/1984
Location: Humber
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 13 Favourites
Their train order read in part: "Do not exceed 20 mph while handling dimensional loads BAWX 100 and BAWX 102...…". Another boiler for Ontario Hydro's Darlington Nuclear Generation Station heads east on the Halton Sub.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/28/1984
Location: Humber
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 10 Favourites
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