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About Jacob Patterson

Growing up near CN Guelph Junction, I've always been interested in railways. Began photography around 2013 with a few Nikon point and shoot cameras, now using a D3200. Member of the Guelph historical Railway Association and work in the entertainment industry (BFA Performance Production). Other photos available on Flickr.

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Jacob Patterson's 562 photos on Railpictures.ca:

After a very dry winter in Ontario, an early spring snowfall provided a nice change for photography. In the south end of Barrie, the lone GP9 of the Barrie Collingwood Railway is seen lifting a car from TAG Environmental, which will join another car from Comet Chemical destined for the CPKC at Utopia. The change in the weather had the train slowly following a foreman throughout the day, who was cleaning switches along the line.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	Cando
Date:	04/02/2024
Location:	Barrie
Province:	Ontario

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Its a busy Monday in St. Thomas where GIO Rail is busy switching out 22 cars in CN's yard, with their traffic today mainly being tanks going into storage at New Sarum and Tilsonburg.

<br><br>Across town, OSR's St. Thomas Job is finishing up their work at Factor Gas and waiting for GIO to finish their lift before they can gain access to the yard. They'll meet GIO at the diamond in a few minutes.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	GIO Rail
Date:	01/15/2024
Location:	St. Thomas
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 17 Favourites

It is about 1615h and CNR 3126 has brought Quebec City - Cochrane train 11 into its terminus after a 20.5 hour journey through the crisp winter landscape of northern Quebec and Ontario.<br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>

Name:	Unknown Photographe…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/16/1965
Location:	Cochrane
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 18 Favourites

CP H88 ties onto their lift at Guelph Junction, ready for another trip home to London.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/12/2022
Location:	Guelph Junction
Province:	Ontario

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CP RS18u 1855 is stopped at the Woodstock station, preparing to depart with racks for CAMI Automotive at Ingersoll.<br><br><i>D. Beauregard Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>

Name:	D. Beauregard Photo…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/1989
Location:	Woodstock
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 21 Favourites

With their four hour commute almost done, GO 3710 from London rounds the curve at Queen Street, just a few miles from its destination of Toronto Union Station.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	02/27/2023
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

A BNSF geep, an American style crossbuck, here on a southern Ontario branchline. With their empty center beams set off, CN L580 backs out of CGC's plant just north of Hagersville.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	BNSF
Date:	06/19/2023
Location:	Hagersville
Province:	Ontario

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Bombardier HR-616 demonstrator 7004, one of four such units undergoing testing for the CP from February 1983 - May 1984, is seen on a snowy April day at Agincourt Yard. Trailing behind the unit is CP 4742 and QNSL 209, while CP 5956 can be seen in the distance. Only twenty of these units were ever built, all for CN, numberd 2100 - 2119.

<br><br>See more of these units testing on CP:
<a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=15019>May 1983, Agincourt</a>
<a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=15477>May 1983, North Bay</a>
<a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43538>May 1983, North Bay</a>
<a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=50043>May 1983, Sturgeon Falls</a>
<a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14369>July 1983, Galt</a>
<a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43438>February 1984, Agincourt</a>
<a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=22646>Winter 1983-1984, London</a>

<br><br><i>Bill Grandin Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Negative.</i>

Name:	Bill Grandin Photo,…
Railway:	Builder/Manufactur…
Date:	04/02/1984
Location:	Agincourt
Province:	Ontario

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Less than an hour after sunrise, CN 451 rounds the curve through the blackfly ridden marshland just north of Falkenburg.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/20/2023
Location:	Falkenburg
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 16 Favourites

Brake shoe smoke swirls around trailing freight cars as a trio of GMD SD40 variants roll an eastbound extra into Brantford.<br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Jacob Patterson Collection.</i>

Name:	Unknown Photographe…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/26/1986
Location:	Brantford
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 16 Favourites

Following up on <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=54012>Dan Dell'Unto's recent post</a> of the Moonlight arriving at Owen Sound with leased VIA Rail GMD F40PH-2 6449 in the consist, as shot by Peter Jobe.
Here the train has completed its work and is seen heading out of town with a single hopper, approaching the Highway 26 underpass. If the time noted on the slide is correct it is 1155h, indicating less than an hour of work since the train had arrived in town. It would also appear the train has turned on the wye, the south switch of which can be seen in the background.<br><br><i>Peter Jobe Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>

Name:	Peter Jobe Photo, J…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/02/1995
Location:	Owen Sound
Province:	Ontario

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After meeting 105 at Zephyr, CN 104 gets up to track speed through the curve at Mount Albert. At one time a town served by two railways, today the CN Bala Sub, originally built by the Canadian Northern in 1906, sees all traffic on its transcontinental journey.<br><br>The other line, arriving in Mount Albert in 1877, was the narrow gauge Lake Simcoe Junction Railway, a subsidiary of the Toronto & Nipissing Railway. The LSJR was constructed from Stouffville Junction to Jackson's Point on Lake Simcoe via Ballantrae, Mount Albert, and Sutton, eventually crossing the Canadian Northern at Zephyr, just north of Queensville Sideroad. Traffic levels dwindled after the construction of both the CNoR, and the Toronto & York Radial Railway to Sutton (opening 1909), resulting in the abandonment of the Sutton Sub between Zephyr and Stouffville Junction in 1928 (service ending in May, and rails lifted by October). Jackson's Point to Sutton had been abandoned in 1927. Redesignated as the CN Sutton Spur in 1960, service would cease in 1979, with the rails being lifted in 1981. The LSJR passed roughly 1000 feet off to the right of this image.<br><br>Some information can be found on the late Charles Cooper's website by <a href=https://railwaypages.com/lake-simcoe-junction-railway>clicking here,</a> and further information can be found in his book <i>Narrow Gauge for Us: The Story of the Toronto & Nipissing Railway.</i>

<br><br>Scenes of Mount Albert station, relocated to Cannington, ON in 1978:
<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51081>September 1976, Arnold Mooney</a>
<br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43929>March 1978, Arnold Mooney</a>
<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44005>Fall 1978, Peter Newman</a>

<br><br>Scenes of CN's Sutton station, relocated to Georgina, ON in the late 70s:
<br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=52368>October 1976, Arnold Mooney</a>
<br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=34107>October 1976, Arnold Mooney</a>

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/20/2023
Location:	Mount Albert
Province:	Ontario

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CN L533 ties back onto its train after lifting a cut of cars out of XW20 at CN Guelph Junction Wellington.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/09/2023
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 17 Favourites

The early spring sun sets on Hamilton's gritty north end as VIA 98 slips by on the Grimsby sub.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	04/02/2023
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 9 Favourites

Finding a break in the clouds, CPKC 238 is seen passing Waterdown on approach to Hamilton.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	02/17/2024
Location:	Waterdown
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 9 Favourites

With their work on the Exeter Sub complete, GEXR 581 is well into its return trip to Stratford, passing the hamlet of Dublin.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	05/14/2023
Location:	Dublin
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

An entry for the time machine challenge with Bruce Acheson's 1990's shot <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47962>as seen here.</a><br><br>CN L502 swings around the curve off the old Hagersville Sub alignment at Garnet, headed for a meet with Southern Ontario Railway 591 in Garnet Yard to swap traffic for Nanticoke industries. An automotive business still uses the neighbouring property, with RPM Used Vehicles having become Smout's Garage.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/04/2024
Location:	Garnet
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 13 Favourites

VIA Rail train 663 behind leased CN Tempo RS18m 3153 makes its stop at Guelph on a warm summer day. The Tempo units only had about a year left in service before retirement in 1983. At right is CN 7242, power for the Guelph yard job.<br><br><i>Richard M. Panek Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>

Name:	Richard M. Panek Ph…
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	06/1982
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 23 Favourites

A pair of OSR's SW1200RSus trundle into Ingersoll to lift a car of propane for Factor Gas in St. Thomas.

Name:	Jacob Patterson
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	11/18/2023
Location:	Ingersoll
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 17 Favourites

Though noted at 551, this pair of F7us appear to be operating as Extra 9178 west along the Southampton sub, about a mile west of Walkerton at the sideroad 5 crossing.<br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>

Name:	Unknown Photographe…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/16/1980
Location:	Walkerton
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 26 Favourites

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