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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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Running light past the Sharpe Feed mill at Moffat, GEXR 583 heads for Arkell where they will work for about an hour before continuing into Guelph.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 01/26/2023
Location: Moffat
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 19 Favourites
CNR 6167 makes its way west over East Catfish Creek at New Sarum nearing the halfway point of its excursion at St. Thomas.<br><br>Originating at Toronto Union Station, the excursion ran to Hamilton where a pair of MLW RS3s; 3004, 3019, were added ahead of 6167 to assist the train up the Hagersville Subdivision to Caledonia, even though the 800 ton consist came in well under the 1,400 ton haulage capacity for Northerns up the grade. The diesels would be removed at Caledonia, the tender replenished with water, and the excursion would depart for Jarvis with a couple of runpasts along the way at Caledonia and Garnet, captured <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47268>here by Bob Sandusky.</a> Further runpasts would be held along the Cayuga west of Jarvis before arriving at St. Thomas <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44906> where Doug Page captured the train </a> before it turned for home.<br><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51043>Westbound approaching the Humber River at Toronto,</a> John Freyseng Photo.<br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Unknown Photographe…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/30/1962
Location: New Sarum
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 23 Favourites
CN A434 with a pair of BCOL Dash 9s up front pauses at Brantford to set off a pair of GP38-2Ws for L580/L581 before continuing east to Mac Yard.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 01/08/2023
Location: Brantford
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 13 Favourites
GO 3710 behind its usual pair of GMD F59PHs cuts through the morning fog approaching New Hamburg.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 09/02/2022
Location: New Hamburg
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 30 Favourites
Sitting cold and quiet, her fire last dropped 58 years ago, CNR 6167 looks right at home in John Galt Park. The 6167 Restoration Team, a part of Guelph Museums', has been slowly working away since the Northern was moved to this site <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43392>in November 2020.</a> Work has included coupling the locomotive and tender together, including moving the tender by hand; reinstalling the driving box cellars; reinstalling grease pans in trailing truck journals; and finally adding the CNR herald to both sides of the tender. 6167 is planned to be fully repainted in the next year or two, and the city will be installing a hydro hookup for continued restoration.<br><br>For anyone in on it... benches at right :)
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 01/23/2023
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 20 Favourites
421 departs Hamilton for Port Robinson during a brief period of sun.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 01/21/2022
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 10 Favourites
As it was mentioned in the comments on <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=50889>John Freyseng's shot of 5107,</a> here is a shot of the joint Upper Canada Railway Society and Canadian Railroad Historical Association trip behind E-10-a 2-6-0 90 and N-4-a 2-8-0 2649 at Bancroft.<br><br>Departing Belleville amid the light rain that morning at 0645h - with a crew from the National Film Board setup in the baggage car - the excursion ran along the Campbellford Subdivision to <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=46380>Anson Junction,</a> taking the east leg of the wye onto the Maynooth Subdivision. The train would pause briefly at Bancroft before proceeding three miles north to York River where the train could be wyed for the return trip. Arriving back at Anson Junction, the excursion would continue south into Trenton, turning on the wye before returning north to Trenton Junction to rejoin the Oshawa Sub mainline for the short twelve mile run back to Belleville. The special reached a top speed of 55mph on the high iron, running barely 30 minutes ahead of Toronto - Montreal train 6, due into Belleville at 1815h.<br><br>Notes of the trip per John Freyseng's extensive article in the June 1959 UCRS newsletter. Neither of these locomotives would last another year, with 90 meeting the torch in February 1960, and 2649 that March.<br><br>Original Photographer Unknown, Al Chione Duplicate, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Al Chione Duplicate…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/10/1959
Location: Bancroft
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 18 Favourites
Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway express motor 41 runs northbound passing the Thorold Water Works on the elevated tracks at Front and Regent Streets. Purchased from the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula as motor 60 in 1927, 41 would leave the property in 1959 along with numerous other pieces of NS&T equipment destined for the reclamation yard in London for scrapping.<br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Al Chione Duplicate, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Al Chione Duplicate…
Railway: Niagara St. Cathar…
Date: Circa 1954
Location: Thorold
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 20 Favourites
Prior to heading east for work at Guelph and Acton's Canwell Lumber, L540 slips down the Huron Park Spur to switch out cars for CP at South Junction.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/29/2022
Location: Kitchener
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 15 Favourites
Shop tracks at Spadina are filled with first generation motive power, including a pair of recently rebuilt CN RS18ms in their patched green and gold scheme. Six RS18s (3850, 3856, 3860, 3883, 3884, 3887) received Cummins head end power (HEP) units in their short hoods in addition to dual control stands during 1967 rebuilding for Tempo service in southern Ontario. The well known <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10915>orange and white Tempo scheme</a> and their new numbers would be applied late in the spring of 1968. CN 3883 became <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=7103>CN 3151</a> while CN 3860 became <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=19632>CN 3153.</a> Both of these units would lose their HEP equipment in a fatal wreck at Woodbine on the Weston Sub <a href=https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/360627/smashed-and-tangled-wreckage-of-drailed-cnr-tempo-train-lie?ctx=1f0a25be3641771b0538699746a9f47931d8bfd1&idx=20>in April 1969</a> requiring them to use baggage cars equipped with HEP equipment for their trains.<br><br>With Tempo coaches beginning to arrive during spring 1968, employees were given two round trip introductory runs on <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=28214>Sunday, June 9, 1968</a> between Toronto and London before service began on Monday, June 17. Tempo equipment would initially be assigned to trains 147/142 running Toronto – Windsor, and trains 151/150 running Toronto – Sarnia. Wednesday, July 10 would expand the equipment to Windsor trains 141/146. Power in the background includes GP9 4132, and GMD-1 1907 at right.<br><br>Also at Spadina, Dave Burroughs captured CN 3887 in this pre-Tempo stage <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=28250>during May 1968.</a><br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Unknown Photographe…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/1968
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 21 Favourites
A busy day at the interchange, GEXR 582 makes their lift of almost 20 cars leaving roughly the same for CN to grab minutes later.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 06/10/2022
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
Former Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotives 136 and 1057, now in excursion service lettered for the Credit Valley Railway, are seen taking on coal outside the TH&B station at Hamilton. Earlier in the day they had run an excursion from Toronto - Guelph Junction - Hamilton, and are taking on coal before their return trip. Another view taken a few minutes earlier shows <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47677>1057 receiving coal.</a><br><br><i>Bryce Lee Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Bryce Lee Photo; Ja…
Railway: Preservation
Date: 05/04/1974
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 17 Favourites
CNR 6167 makes a few moves at Cobourg as it prepares to cut off from its train and back around the wye (at right) with a baggage car full of fans. Today's excursion from Toronto included a stop at Oshawa for traction fans to take in the Oshawa Railway operations which were in the last few years of operation. This day marked the last train down King Street, <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cnr_electric/OR_last_train_street_track.jpg>celebrated by a parade</a> as motor 300 hauled a <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cnr_electric/OR_last_train_street_track_the-end.jpg>single boxcar through town.</a> Note the empty CPR water tower seen just above the house at left along the CPR Oshawa Sub.<br><br>Steve Bradley would shoot the special after its westbound departure from Oshawa <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=34409>highballing through Port Union.</a><br><br><i>Tom J. Gascoigne Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Tom J. Gascoigne Ph…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/11/1963
Location: Cobourg
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 23 Favourites
Its climb up the Niagara escarpment complete, CP 235 picks up speed through Guelph Junction.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/13/2022
Location: Guelph Junction
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
Toronto-bound in the evening light.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 10/02/2022
Location: Paris
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 8 Favourites
VIA's first set of Siemens equipment slices through Stratford on approach to a brief stop at the station during testing.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 08/06/2022
Location: Stratford
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 16 Favourites
The most recent unit to receive OSR's maroon and cream paint, SW1200RSu 1249 debuted its new colours late in November 2022. Today it trails on the Woodstock job seen shortly after departing the shop at Salford. The first order of business is to lift loaded autoracks from CN for spotting at CAMI.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 12/28/2022
Location: Salford
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 14 Favourites
The crew on the St. Thomas job warms up in the cab during the short jaunt over to Putnam where they will spend an hour working customers.<br><br>Merry Christmas everyone, and best wishes for 2023!
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 12/24/2021
Location: Putnam
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 16 Favourites
With a scheduled stop at 1031h, CNR U-1-b 6036 departs Ingersoll on the point of train 77.<br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Al Chione Duplicate, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Al Chione Duplicate…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/17/1958
Location: Ingersoll
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
Canadian Pacific train 91, the Teeswater Sub wayfreight out of Orangeville, passes through Grand Valley with three boxcars and one of CP's early steel, end cupola vans (437268 - 437404 series) bringing up the rear. On the siding at left, plow extra 8424 sits uncoupled from its plow alongside Tindall Feeds.<br><br>CP 8742, rebuilt to CP 1815, would survive <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=13138>into Ottawa Central days</a> until the OC was purchased by the CN. 8242, rebuilt to 1505, would be scrapped in 2011.<br><br><i>John Freyseng Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: John Freyseng Photo…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/24/1968
Location: Grand Valley
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 25 Favourites
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