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I’ve been photographing trains since 1992.

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CN SW1200RS 1348 in it's new CN colours is sitting in Kitchener, Ontario on the evening of May 13, 1993. This was the last SW1200RS I ever saw assigned to Kitchener.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/13/1993
Location: Kitchener
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
On Christmas Eve Day the sun briefly comes out as CN train L540 with GP38-2(W)’s 4777 and 4781 heads by the Kitchener station as they make their way to the Huron Park Spur and the interchange with Canadian Pacific.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/24/2018
Location: Kitchener
Province: Ontario
Comments | 4 Favourites
A Saturday morning in 1993 finds CN’s Stuart Street yard shop tracks full of units awaiting their next assignments. The units included from left to right were; SW1200RM’s 7103, 7104, 7307, 7314, GP9RM’s 4127, 4136, 4101, SD40-2(W)’s 5299 and 5310. Also, around the shop facility that day were SW1200RS’s 1355, 1369 and 1375. As well, SW1200RS’s 1359 and 1360 were observed switching the yard. I also have in my notes that there were five active CN cabooses around the yard; 79648, 79853, 79473, 79783 and 79482.
Name: Carl Noe (Collectio…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/11/1993
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
GMTX’s 2279 and 2323 roll CN train L568 with just light power through Baden, Ontario approaching Mill Street as they head towards Stratford on the Guelph Subdivision.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/18/2018
Location: Baden
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
CN GMD1u 1444 has just returned from Guelph with a GMTX GP38-2 on L540 and is viewed near the CN Operations Centre in the Kitchener yard.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/29/2018
Location: Kitchener
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 11 Favourites
On CN's second day back operating on the Guelph Subdivision, CN L540 is viewed switching the east end of the Kitchener yard with GMTX 2279, GMTX 2284, GTW 4929 and GMTX 2323.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 11/17/2018
Location: Kitchener
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
Canadian Pacific train 511 is climbing the grade on the Windsor Subdivision as it heads westbound out of London approaching the Sarnia Road overpass. Powering the train are SD40-2 5574 and I&M Rail Link (IMRL) SD40 232. This westbound was the third to depart Quebec Street on the Windsor Subdivision that afternoon, as it eventually would follow 509 and 503 to Windsor.
Name: Carl Noe (Collectio…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/14/1997
Location: London
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
An eastbound train with SD40 5564 waits to depart Canadian Pacific's Quebec Street yard in London as a westbound train has just finished it's journey on the Galt Subdivision with SD40-2's 5585 and 5485. SD40 5564 was retired in 2001 and eventually sold for scrap while 5585 was retired in March 2008 and sold for scrap a year later as well. SD40-2 5485 started life as Southern before becoming Norfolk Southern 3254 then to GATX 3254, eventually being acquired by CP during 1992 and renumbered to CP 3254. Earlier in 1997, the unit was renumbered to CP 5485. CP retired the unit in 2003 and it was later sold to NRE in Mount Vernon, Illinois in 2004 becoming NREX 5485. Just over a year later in 2005, the unit was involved in a wreck in Momence, Illinois and was retired due to damage it received. Notes on locomotives from http://www.mountainrailway.com.
Name: Carl Noe (Collectio…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: Fall 1997
Location: London
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
More than twenty years ago during a much simpler time and prior to the creation of the light rail network, Waterloo-St. Jacobs Railway (WSJR) 6508 leads a northbound excursion through Waterloo Park on the CN Waterloo Spur. The WSJR was a heritage/tourist railway that operated between Waterloo and St. Jacobs, Ontario from 1997 to 1999 on the CN Waterloo Spur utilizing FP9u's 6508 and 6520. The railway had ceased operations during 2000 citing rising maintenance expenses that deemed the operation no longer profitable.
Name: Carl Noe (Collectio…
Railway: Tourist
Date: Fall 1997
Location: Waterloo
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 12 Favourites
The Goderich-Exeter Railway ceased operating on the Guelph Subdivision and related spurs on November 15, 2018. The next day CN regained control of the lines and picked-up where GEXR had left off, just as they had done 20 years prior. In turn, GEXR would continue their operations on the Goderich Subdivision and Exeter Spur out of Stratford. While the final days of GEXR on the Guelph Subdivision marked last runs for all their local assignments and road trains 431 and 432, there was also extensive coverage that followed on this site as well as other social media sites. Unfortunately, I had just started a new job which meant I had no extra time to photograph the final days of GEXR. That combined with the time change and a large snowstorm meant I had a no “last run” or “this is it” kind of ending. The last 431 I had photographed was a week earlier. In comparison, during November 1998, several of us watched on the station platform as the final CN 431 stormed out of Kitchener with two SD40-2(W)’s. It was a fitting send off just hours before the original GEXR take over. That time around it was more of an end of an era type of feeling. Throughout 2018 I photographed GEXR operations quite extensively and had plenty of material to go through and edit over the course of the following year. It wasn’t until I hovered over a few photos I had taken just prior to the changeover that I saw a familiar date. I quickly realized the similarities to another photo I had taken two decades prior, which I had previously posted here this past year as well. http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=35433 All the photo information is in the caption, but basically that day my dad and I were at the station shooting CN 432 coming into Kitchener with less than two weeks to go before the pending GEXR takeover. The photo I ended-up hovering over on my computer had the same date, which was November 4. That’s when everything came into perspective. That day in early November 2018, my wife, young daughter and I had stopped at the station to do the same thing as GEXR X580 headed west to Stratford after working the P&H facility at Shantz, east of Kitchener. While the train only had two light units, it was more about the last two decades and the connections this hobby can bring together. My daughter will never meet her grandfather. But to be chasing history with her, in the same way my dad and I did at the Kitchener station that day long ago, I can now say we all shared the transitions between railway’s 20 years apart. Realizing this full circle of events with my daughter turned out to be a fitting ending to GEXR operations on the Guelph Subdivision and one that I will be able to tell her about some day.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 11/04/2018
Location: KITCHENER
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 8 Favourites
That afternoon I was already rushing around trying to get things packed and organized for a pending dinner with friends north of Toronto in Aurora when a certain someone called. He explained that GEXR 3054 is now back to Southern Pacific 3054. With the previously mentioned commitment pressing there was no time for the who, what, how and why questions to be asked over the phone. It was quite simply load the family in the car and hopefully intersect this train on the way to Aurora. Hearing scanner chatter of 431 switching east of Kithchener meant the train was likely at Shantz working the Parrish & Heimbecker (P&H) facility. So we headed east, and upon arrival there was little time to waste as 431 was already slowly departing after completing its work. After frantically working my way up the well worn path to the tracks above and with literally seconds to work with, I was able to photograph 3054 with it's newly applied SP logo. As a side note, I found out after that when the crew on 432 reported for duty that morning at Stratford, the SP paint was still wet, so it had been very recently done overnight. As well, this would become the last GEXR 431 I ever photographed as the changeover back to CN was less than a week away.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 11/10/2018
Location: East of Breslau (S…
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 10 Favourites
A lengthy Goderich-Exeter Railway train 516 with GEXR 2073 patiently waits in the siding at Baden for the arrival of VIA Rail #85.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 11/05/2018
Location: Baden
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
This was probably the first and only time I’ve seen something like this occur in Kitchener. I had to look back in my notes to remember exactly why a CN caboose was coupled to an LRC coach and a VIA Rail F40PH-2 in front of the station, as it happened more than 25 years ago in February 1994. So from what I could piece together from the notes, that morning’s eastbound VIA train with 6422, had struck a vehicle around Breslau, which is just east of Kitchener. The unit and the first LRC car had received some damage in the collision and they were moved under their own power back to Kitchener and were left on the same track with Kitchener assigned caboose 79401. I believe the LRC coach and 6422 would receive required repairs here prior to being lifted and taken back to Toronto. As well that same afternoon, CN had dispatched GP9RM 4135 to the scene where it would lift the three remaining cars from the passenger train and brought them back to Kitchener to layover. Also of note, CN train 422 had to be held in the siding at Kitchener until the Guelph Subdivision could be re-opened. I have written that it’s consist that day was 2118, 2308, 4102, 4136, 4126 and 4110 with 96 cars.
Name: Carl Noe (Collectio…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/26/1994
Location: Kitchener
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 13 Favourites
CP C424 4215 and Algoma Central Railway SD40-2 181 await departure from the Agincourt yard diesel shop while a Helm Leasing unit sits to the right. That morning, Algoma Central Railway SD40-2's 181 and 185 had entered the diesel shop, presumably off a southbound that had come from the MacTier Subdivision. Both units were eventually separated with 181 paired with the aging MLW C424 on possibly the next northbound junk train bound for the MacTier Subdivision.
Name: Carl Noe (Collectio…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/18/1994
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
Goderich-Exeter Railway train 431 with SD40-2's RLHH 3403 and GEXR 3394 highball towards Stratford at Kitchener West. At the same time, GEXR 540 was waiting for them to clear on the Huron Park Spur with RLK 4095 and SLR 3806 light power.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 09/19/2018
Location: KITCHENER
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 6 Favourites
In less than two weeks, Goderich-Exeter Railway Kitchener would once again become CN Kitchener, however the GEXR applied sign still continued to proudly watch over the two locomotive tracks across from the Kitchener station until the change.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 11/04/2018
Location: KITCHENER
Province: Ontario
Comments | 1 Favourites
Goderich-Exeter Railway (GEXR) road train 431 with GEXR SD45T-2 3054, RLHH SD40-2 3403 and GEXR SD40-2 3394 are accelerating westbound by the Kitchener VIA Rail station. To the left, QGRY 2008 and SLR 3806 await their next assignment on 584 after having just returned from Guelph on train 580.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 10/25/2018
Location: KITCHENER
Province: Ontario
Comments | 9 Favourites
The weekly GO Transit line-up is seen during a quiet Sunday morning at Guelph Junction. Before their current home base opened further east, GO Transit had based all their Galt Subdivision trains out of Guelph Junction for many years.
Name: Carl Noe (Collectio…
Railway: GO Transit
Date: Spring 1994
Location: Guelph Junction (C…
Province: Ontario
Comments | 9 Favourites
During the last month of Goderich-Exeter Railway operations on the Guelph Supervision, the railway kept their units mostly tied-down at the Kitchener yard, rather than across from the Kitchener VIA Rail station. Here two sets of GEXR motive power are seen on a Sunday afternoon beside the newly constructed future CN Guelph Subdivision Operations Centre.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 10/14/2018
Location: KITCHENER
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 6 Favourites
Running slightly behind schedule, VIA Rail train 85 is departing Kitchener with 6417 west.
Name: Jason Noe
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 10/14/2018
Location: KITCHENER
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 5 Favourites
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