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I have always loved railfanning. From the age of three - my parents swore I knew where every railway line, railway crossing, or any station was. I was born in Palmerston, Ontario - right beside the old station and rail yard. Although I missed the days of steam, I grew up at the end of what I call the dark period of the railways. Stations were painted in drab, dreary colors - dark colors were also found on locomotive power,etc. However, it does bring me joy in viewing other photos online and remembering how great it was to railfan - especially when I was a kid!I am also happy to share my photos....although my main focus has been of the structures that the railroad companies seem to ignore these days, depsite designation of some. Please enjoy.

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Tonight's version of CN 438 is led by engine 5643, which almost leads in popularity as seeing VIA 905 on Train 78. It came to a slow rolling stop, blocking the evening traffic at Keil Drive before rapidly pulling forward to lift some cars from the siding.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/08/2017
Location:	Chatham
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 6 Favourites

<b> THE RARE MORNING EASTBOUND... </b> It is a beautiful sunny morning in downtown Chatham, where 240 makes it's way along one of the tightest rail corridors with numerous level crossings. Led by CP 8747 and 8717, it is about at the half way mark already having crossed or still blocking (west to east) Bloomfield Road, Keil Drive, Merritt Avenue, Inshes Avenue, Lacroix Street, West Street, Raleigh Street, Jeffrey Street, Queen St., Centre Street and finally Wellington Street in the foreground. Surprisingly, this train still has yet to cross William Street, the King and Adelaide intersection, Colborne and Princess Streets. It will exit Chatham as it crosses Longwoods Road and Prince Albert Drive.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/16/2017
Location:	Chatham
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 3 Favourites

<b> IT'S NOT AS EASY AS IT LOOKS! </a> Inspired by <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=29724"> Jospeh Bishop's pan shot of 918 </a>, I attempted my own of VIA 905 leading Train 78 on the outskirts of Jeannette's Creek.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	08/31/2017
Location:	Jeannette's Creek
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 3 Favourites

<b> MORE "FOREIGN POWER IN ONTARIO (FPON)",</b> as CP 9768 picks up speed with an unidentified BNSF unit and NS unit # 7231 trailing, after a meet with an eastbound train at Bloomfield Road in Chatham.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/03/2017
Location:	Ringold
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

Rural small towns like Northwood have always been intriguing to me. Although they don't contain as much railway history like some of Ontario's larger towns or cities, it's these types of communities that most residents can recall what it was like in an era that 'once was'. Here, modern day CN 5643 runs long hood forward with a smaller version of train 438.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/22/2017
Location:	Northwood
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 4 Favourites

A very late Train 71 crosses the Queens Line as it rushes out of Chatham. Good thing it was worth waiting around to see F40 6416 in it's rare Canada 150 wrap.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	09/02/2017
Location:	Chatham
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 8 Favourites

My "stay-cation" of 2017 was nicely filled with time to do some railfanning, without my usual sidekick. A few weeks before, there was some intriguing foreign power seen within Southwestern Ontario. Thankfully, it continued through out the time I had off. Here, a nice combination of smaller CP power led by 5022, with Norfolk Southern 9182 trailing ahead of an unidentified third CP unit.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/03/2017
Location:	Chatham
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 8 Favourites

A nice little shot of diminutive CN engine 7071, after having finished switching out the Agris Co-Op facility. The engine will return up the grade and couple onto the rest of it's train, and tug it a few short feet across Hwy. 21 to perform the remaining switching duties at Agris' silos.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/02/2017
Location:	Thamesville
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 9 Favourites

A great start to my vacation. Such colourful consists on the Canadian Pacific. This train with a BNSF sandwiched in between two CP locos led by 5031, at Tilbury.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/01/2017
Location:	Tilbury
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 8 Favourites

On a quiet Sunday morning, Train 71 hustles across the Tecumseh Line on it's approach to Jeanette's Creek.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	08/27/2017
Location:	Jeannette's Creek
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 3 Favourites

For L514, it is a real treat sometimes when you get to photograph it. As usual, it's main consist is grain cars, as it services the Thompson's mills in Blenheim as well as the Agris silos in Thamesville. Here I was able to catch a late running 514 coming back into Chatham, passing the very recognizable (blue) MSSC plant at St. George Street. It's nice to see a 'local' train have more than the usual 10 cars in tow.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/26/2017
Location:	Chatham
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Coming home is always nice to do, especially when you have some down time to go and see if there is any action on the SOR. Here, these three units are doing some yard work on a Saturday morning. It's nice to see the orange and black again, especially with the sun cooperating!<br><br>(Of interest Sept. 3rd - I don't know how much the SOR is affected right now. When these photos were taken, Imperial Oil was in a shut down for upgrades. But now the Native Standoff is also a key factor, as someone put some debris on the tracks and set fire to it outside of Caledonia. Any information as to damage, etc. would be appreciated )

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Southern Ontario R…
Date:	08/19/2017
Location:	Jarvis
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 9 Favourites

Passing the former station grounds and sidings, Train 73 led by a shiny 905 kicks up the dust as it crosses Jeannette's Creek Road on it's way to Windsor.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	08/01/2017
Location:	Jeannette's Creek
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

<b> Hard work DOES pay off!!! </b> My day began with a casual drive, out to see if there was any action around. My intent was at least trying to catch both the afternoon VIA trains, 76 & 73. However, at Dhillon road a long eastbound CP 650 was stopped, and slowly took the siding leading up to Bloomfield Road. Knowing that there may be another hot shot eastbound, or even better a westbound, I picked my spot in downtown Chatham to shoot from. I only got as far as William Street, and the barriers had come down as 235 was rushing west! I immediately pulled into a grocery store parking lot, turned around, and chased 235 all the way out to Haycroft. And still only had a quick few minutes to spare due to local traffic. It was worth it, as there were three engines leading this charge in CP 8742, UP 5086 and CP 5023. This is about as rare as three trains running daylight for the CP these days!

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/12/2017
Location:	Haycroft
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 6 Favourites

I am not one for early mornings, but sometimes you just have to do it. Especially when you have company over, and they took the train to get here! Train 70 is building momentum as it departs Chatham with the sun starting to rise.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	06/10/2017
Location:	Chatham
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 3 Favourites

Like many of the smaller communities along the Canadian Nationals Strathroy Subdivision, Watford has not changed much through the years. Having boasted one of the larger stations at one time, it was demolished as the railway did not wish to continue the maintenance of the building. With all passenger traffic being swirched over to VIA Rail, they started to build smaller, less attractive 'stations' along their corridors. Here, we see the Chicago to Toronto container train passing the current CN maintenance office. Of note, is the light standard just to the left of the signals. That remains from one of those small VIA shelter that existed until the early to mid 2000's before it too was demolished, probably due to low ridership. A similar structure still exists to the west in Wyoming.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/04/2017
Location:	Watford
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 4 Favourites

Hard to believe that in behind this train used to stand the CPR station for Chatham. Now a municipal parking lot with overgrown trees and bushes acting as a safety barrier, a nice colourful lashup between the CP and BNSF units lead this westbound through the downtown core.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/02/2017
Location:	Chatham
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 5 Favourites

VIA 905 leads train 78 as it continues it's whisk trip through the countryside after passing the small community of Prairie Siding.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	07/28/2017
Location:	Prairie Siding
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 4 Favourites

The VIA station these days is about the only bright spot in an otherwise sad looking rail scene on the former Canadian National mainline. Here we find CN 5722 as it leads a short train of only ten cars, slowly trundling along almost following on the heels of VIA train 78 that departed only 20 minutes earlier.

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/24/2017
Location:	Chatham
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 9 Favourites

<b> NO LONGER A "DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH" </b> It's becoming increasingly difficult these days to recognize areas that were once familiar and popular places to photograph for railfans. The former C&O Subdivision # 2 is no exception. Already having the diamond removed across the Canadian Pacific's Windsor Sub., the sad news was received three weeks ago that the diamond was just removed across the former Canadian National (now VIA) Chatham Subdivision. Here, train 73 led by 919 approaches what once was a busy main line for the CSX.
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In the foreground is the former main, intact for now. And just to my left would have stood the engine house - now just an empty cement base surrounded by overgrown weeds and bushes. In the distance, you can see a leg of the interchange track for CN..it too having been dismantled from their main corridor. To my right (out of sight) is the southern wye, which is still in place for now since CN services the Thompsons Elevators at Blenheim.
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To see what this area used to look like, you can see it <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=29429"> in Earl Minnis' recent photo. </a>
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Also, you can see it from the "Chessie" point of view <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=17235"> in Geoff Elliot's photo posted from 2014. </a>

Name:	Todd Steinman
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	07/15/2017
Location:	Chatham
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 5 Favourites

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