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About Mike Molnar

I was born and raised in Windsor. I'm a music and education student at the University of Windsor and I hope to be a future educator. I shoot with a Canon Rebel T3 with 18-55mm and 75-300mm lenses.

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Mike Molnar's 200 photos on Railpictures.ca:

With afternoon thunderstorms firing up to the west, CP 140 meets CP 235 with new wellcars from National Steel Car at East Walkerville. A Kansas City Southern de México AC4400CW in the original grey ghost paint was trailing. The skylines of Windsor and Detroit are visible in the background from this overpass.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/15/2018
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 7 Favourites

CN A438 eases its way along the Chrysler Spur towards the Chatham Subdivision in Windsor. Ironically, this spur used to service the Ford Essex Engine Plant before they cancelled rail service several years ago.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/14/2018
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 5 Favourites

CP 235 rockets past the old mill/elevator in Elmstead, Ontario. The building was repurposed a few years ago and is now used as office space. For a comparison, please check out Geoff Elliott's shot of the Expressway here in 2000. http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=33837

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/12/2018
Location:	Elmstead
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

An SOR local heads back to Hamilton Yard after working various industries around the industrial area of Hamilton. The signals in the shot are for the diamond between CP and SOR at Gage Ave. They operate on a first come first serve basis. Basically, the signals are always green for all directions. When an approaching train reaches a certain point before another does, it will have the right of way through the diamond and all other signals will drop to red. Other trains have time to react to this because they're going at a speed which allows them to stop within half the distance that they can see. This is why the signal facing the camera is still green even though there is an obvious obstruction on the track ahead. I believe these signals are called ABS signals but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Pretty soon though shots of SOR here won't be possible with CN taking over operations in this area on December 18th.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Southern Ontario R…
Date:	12/09/2017
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 6 Favourites

After completing their work in Windsor Yard, CP 140 heads back out onto the main to grab the rest of their train and continue east towards Toronto. The trailing unit is a somewhat rare KCSM AC4400CW still in its original grey paint. KCS acquired a Mexican railroad called TFM in the mid-1990s and created Kansas City Southern de México to accompany their US operations. The units painted with the KCSM decals typically stay in Mexico but sometimes venture north into the US but rarely make it this far north into Canada.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/15/2018
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 2 Favourites

GEXR 431 crests the hill at Acton, ON. as a Dodge Ram paces the train on parallel Ontario Highway 7. Some courageous artist(s) (or vandals depending what side of the spectrum you're on) painted "SP" on the nose of 3054 the night before; partially restoring/preserving the unit's previous history. With only four more days before this section of GEXR's operations are taken over by CN (as of this upload), many will be flocking to get a glimpse of an SP tunnel motor in Southern Ontario before another chapter in Ontario rail history closes.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	11/10/2018
Location:	Acton
Province:	Ontario

9 Comments | 13 Favourites

An ETR crew has just finished doing their work in Ojibway Yard on Windsor's west end and are preparing to grab a cut of cars to interchange with CP and CN before calling it a day. The conductor on duty was having fun watching us "foamers" taking photos while they started to head down to the other end of the yard.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Essex Terminal
Date:	06/09/2018
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 4 Favourites

The afternoon local makes its way north on the Chrysler Spur to serve a couple of industries about a 1/4 mile behind the camera. CN has been leasing a lot of road power over the last several months but is now starting to lease some blue GATX GP38s for yard and local work. Will these be the replacements for the remaining GP9rm and EMD-1 units left on CN? I guess only time will tell.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/14/2018
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 6 Favourites

This is the third and final shot we got of the CWR train back in early July. After the rail train met 141 in Bothwell, we went east and discovered these classic bi-directional searchlights on accident near a crossing. Apart from the solar panel, this scene has been largely untouched and it was a treat to see a classic SD40 leading past them. As far as I know, these are one of the last sets left like this on CP in Southwestern Ontario.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/02/2018
Location:	Bothwell
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 7 Favourites

After a morning of interchange work in Detroit, CP T-40 blasts out of the tunnel with a small cut of cars for Windsor Yard.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/01/2018
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 6 Favourites

A CP rail train with a classic SD40-2 leading negotiates the tight curve on the east side of Tilbury.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/02/2018
Location:	Tilbury
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 6 Favourites

A loaded rail train enters the siding at WSS Bothwell to meet CP 141. 5792 is one of about 2 dozen SD40-2s CP has brought back into service this year. Interestingly, CP didn't actually repaint this unit into the new beaver scheme. They just added the decal next to the CP block letters so it wouldn't surprise me if this decal starts to come off prematurely in the near future.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/02/2018
Location:	Bothwell
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 12 Favourites

CN A438 rounds the curve that ties the CASO Spur into the Pelton Spur. Pelton at one time was a diamond between the CASO Subdivision and the C&O Sub 1. After CSX left the area, CN took the section of Sub 1 between Pelton and Walkerville Junction, renamed it the Pelton Spur, and built a seamless connection between it and the CASO via a wide sweeping curve. Today, there is not a whole lot left of Pelton. No trains actually pass the spot where the CASO and Sub 1 crossed each other as the curve CN built starts further west at Walker Road.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/15/2018
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 2 Favourites

CP T-27 passes the dwarf signals protecting the interlocking between the CASO Connector and what was once the CASO Sub at College. Both the CASO Connector and the CASO leading up to the tunnel in Windsor are considered to be part of the Windsor Subdivision now. The searchlights at CN Windsor South on the CASO have been turned off leaving locals wondering what CN plans to do with the once busy interlocking that hosted several railroads. No trains have used the north main into Van De Water Yard for several years.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/09/2018
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 11 Favourites

An empty wind turbine train takes the back track between Jefferson and the Begin/end CTC signal 1045 to meet CP 235 who was going into Walkerville Yard to make a set off. Usually, American power like this gets swapped with a leader that has a hot plate or a microwave but on this rare occasion they kept the original leader.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/17/2018
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 8 Favourites

A late 141 passes the intermediate signal at MP 100 and a forgotten tank car left land locked in an unused siding. CP used to service a business here several years ago but after a fatal accident involving a tank car occurred on the property, they no longer receive rail service.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/09/2018
Location:	Lakeshore
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 4 Favourites

After waiting for Q148 to clear, M399 takes its turn over the single track bridge at Humber in the seemingly endless ballet of trains at this location.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/13/2018
Location:	Vaughan
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

This year's spray train ran exactly a year apart from the one last year to the day down in the Windsor area. Only difference was last year was D&H 7304. Just before this shot was taken a pop-up thunderstorm came through so I got lucky that there was a bit of a break between the clouds for this shot. If only I was 20 20 years ago. I could have shot way more of these D&H units instead of just the 2 remaining in service.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/22/2018
Location:	Lakeshore (Saint J…
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 7 Favourites

An OSR job heads back to St. Thomas after doing some work in Aylmer on the Cayuga Spur. There's not much left of Yarmouth Diamond today unfortunately. This once busy junction was where the CASO and Cayuga Subdivisions crossed just east of St. Thomas.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	05/11/2018
Location:	Yarmouth Center
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 6 Favourites

CN A435 passes under Guelph Line in Burlington on its way to work Aldershot Yard.

Name:	Mike Molnar
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/13/2018
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

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