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Just east of Downtown Ingersoll, the pair of former CN F units owned by the OSR roll into town with traffic from CP T69 in Woodstock. The CN noodle on the sign guarding the former site located beside the OSR/CN interchange which is out of frame provides a well composition in my eye with the history of these motors. With the F units having the most CN related history on OSR’s roster, I thought this shot would be the best fitting with these units on this very clear October evening - a great start to a good weekend. Was a good chase this day with good people and I’m pretty happy this shot is checked off for me. Anyone have info on the site that this gate was protecting?

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	10/09/2020
Location:	Ingersoll
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 8 Favourites

On a very humid June afternoon, I hear Job 1 on the radio at the wye ready to spin the power to run around their train sitting on the interchange along Edinburgh Rd. In Guelph anyway, I quickly made my way down Dawson Rd to the west end of the wye just to get there to the conductor throwing the switch to pull down the wye to the south end of the interchange with about half a minute to spare as I got out of the car. Framed with the ballast and construction equipment on the left presumably for the new interchange track that was going in behind me which is now in use today, multimark coloured 1591 trails 1620 facing the perfect sun as they proceed with their movement down the wye with the conductor riding porch side 1620

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	6/30/2020
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

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With its original post rebuild number boards, CN 4102 paired with 4725 switches out the west end of Kitchener as 568 setting up cars to go down the Huron Park Spur for Ampacet and CP. The new signal set on the right (another on the left blocked by 568) guards the new crossover that’ll be put between Lancaster and St Leger Streets that will be used by GO when needed and also to prevent west bound movements to the Huron Park Spur from pulling all the way to the single track at Kitchener West, shoving back to the switch then pulling down the Huron Park as there is no crossover from north to south between Kitchener West and the yard. The crossover is now in place at the moment, but I don’t think it’s in service yet. This is 4102’s first run at Kitchener since the CN takeover 2 years ago and it is the gloomiest time of the year unfortunately so getting anything in perfect sun this time of the year is decently tricky. If I recall correctly, there hasn’t been more than 5 perfectly sunny days since this shot so I was pleased with the result including the threatening sky in the background from the last night’s rain. As I type this though, Mr Sun is trying to tell me something as it just came out of the clouds...

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/11/2020
Location:	Kitchener
Province:	Ontario

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On this particular day again with the 3018 up front, T69 with only two 38’s notch up under the old farmers bridge where the old Killean siding was located about 100 feet behind me. They were surprisingly big today running with way more GJR traffic then the previous days I saw them when they would run to Guelph Jct just to run around there train with the cars they lifted from Federal White Cement in Zorra, with no GJR traffic. This unit is now working with a RC unit assigned for switching in London as I last recall.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	7/9/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

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9000+ ft on the drawbar and 10600 combined horsepower is 255 this sunny evening passing mile 52 on their way to Wolverton where they will meet 140 on the east end and eventually work the west end until darkness. The crew seems joyful giving a “bring it on” expression as the engineer lays on the throttle as well as the well tuned P3 horn trying to regain track speed along the Galt Sub after the climb from Desjardins clocking a clean ~55mph. RTC was pretty surprised as they made Desjardins to Campbellville in a stunning 28 minutes with a very long string of racks lifted off the CASO in Welland on the tail end, wasn’t an issue for the pair of 60’s and the 30ECO so I give respects to the crew for bringing this up the Ham Sub with no shove and no stall. I believe the ECO leads 255 now as at some point they utilized a wye.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	9/20/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 12 Favourites

After lifting IGPC Ethanol, the engineer eases the “Cayuga Clipper” back to St Thomas past the 1940’s built CNR coal tower in Aylmer on the now out of service Cayuga Spur. The tower served CN and Wabash trains throughout the steam era and I assume was built here in Aylmer as it’s the rough half way mark from the train’s Fort Erie to Windsor route. Had the chance for sun but clouds took control unfortunately but I’m still very glad I have this scene documented

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	1/2/2020
Location:	Aylmer
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 12 Favourites

L580 cruises by the siding at Onondaga at 25mph with 10 empty centrebeams for CGC in Hagersville in the early hours of the day with full sunshine. Near the head end of the train stood the Onondaga mile board which I believe was taken out shortly after CN took over operations, would’ve been great framing if it still stood with the old shack on the right but then again I don’t think this spot was as open as now. It’s very trimmed/flattened out now providing an open angle with the code line very visible.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	7/24/2020
Location:	Onondaga
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 8 Favourites

Part of the three man crew, the conductor on today’s “Cayuga Clipper” heads towards the switch in the middle of CN’s St Thomas Yard to realign it for opposite movement so they can sort out the cars they need for Aylmer, Tillsonburg, and Courtland Agromart. This would be their 4th last run, the last day the pups were on the Cayuga Sub operating this movement, and to top it off, that hopper in their cut on the right was the last car to ever be spotted at Courtland so even 21 days before cancellation, things were fading to an extent.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	4/09/2020
Location:	St Thomas
Province:	Ontario

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181 approaches the switch stand between the GJR South Spur and the CN N Guelph Spur as it pulls a cut of hoppers up the dip from PDI Industries and Traxxside on a hazy hot day. MLW smoke always included

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	6/5/2020
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 14 Favourites

A short train of interchange traffic from the GJR at Campbellville rounds the bend at Concession 14 east of Puslinch Siding doing nothing but track speed with original painted 3018 in lead. The good old CP situation brings sun for 1 minute, then clouds for 5 minutes and on and on and on yeah you get it. Thankfully, they were cleared to B/E CTC Sign Ayr from Gue Jct as the thick clouds broke apart so it was very ideal for my first time seeing this lead since the start of it’s assignment in London. The “action red” paint as well as the stripes on 3018 is a fantastic change to the usual CP paint schemes you see out of London for this job and knowing it was facing west and will lead the correct way at the correct time of day for light, I had to finally put the effort in to shoot this job again

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	6/25/2020
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 20 Favourites

CN’s run from Kitchener Yard down to the CP interchange on the Huron Park Spur tends to be random and that randomness can be great at times, as seen in the photo. Around 0830 hrs, 540’s crew was on duty and was chatting with Montreal to receive orders on what 542 will be doing later that day and what power they’ll be taking. As they were speaking, they had a 13 car train of scrap (I believe going to Russel Metals at Hagey on the CP) and a few covered hoppers built on the west end of Kitchener with 1408 leading GMTX 2279, 7025, and 4790. They pull up to the station on the siding track and waited for their light to proceed onto the main track at Kitchener West and back down the main and pull down the Huron Park Spur and as they were waiting, 540 calls up Montreal once again and says something along the lines of “Metrolinx ain’t connecting to our call for our light, conductor is in the office trying to get a hold of them and nothing is going through”. Interesting, they specified they needed only the light to back down the main from the siding to get to the Huron Park Spur switch at Sturm so they were running 1408 in decent light down to the CP interchange no matter what. Light’s only getting better longer they sit as well. Finally Metrolinx answered and gave them their light to do what they needed to do but I did not hear if Metrolinx responded to why they weren’t answering. An interesting morning led to a great scene as 1408 comes down the Huron Park Spur approaching Queen Street on the former GRNR in the sweet morning light. They then will set-off their train at South Junction and proceed back up to Kitchener light power due to track restrictions after 10:00 hrs. 542 then took this unit with the GMTX 2163 to service the N Guelph Spur so this movement definitely caught my satisfaction as the power was separated.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	6/17/2020
Location:	Kitchener
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 15 Favourites

RLHH 2081 does the honours on cold gloomy day with less than ideal lighting conditions to bring a Hydro One transformer on the Schnable car to Hamilton Yard from the port destined to Pickering. About to pass under James St N, this D9R dimensional crawled from the N&NW Spur switch all the way to the yard with roughly a 10 man crew from Hydro One.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Southern Ontario R…
Date:	12/1/2018
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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The now abolished Cayuga Clipper operated by OSR is seen pulling over the Athletic Park trussle in St Thomas with the last minutes of sunlight casting onto the bright red CP multimark paint on 8235 about to drop their cut of cars in the CN St Thomas interchange Yard from Courtland Agromart, Future Transfer, and IGPC all from the now abandon Cayuga Spur. Unfortunately, only seeing 1 daily operated CN local from London (called off sometimes) and a 3 day a week OSR move that sometimes will pass over this bridge for headroom if they even interchange with CN, this bridge had definitely seen more frequent and active movements in its time prior to 2020. That search button at the top of the page can back that statement up with 100% accuracy.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	1/02/2020
Location:	St Thomas
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 13 Favourites

Back when CN L542 had GMD1 no. 1444 and GMTX 2695 doing the honours were definitely times that were memorable as the CN takeover of the GEXR Guelph Sub was only 4 months in and 1 of 5 GMD1’s assigned to CN in Southern Ontario were put on 542. GEXR never operated with GMD1’s so the takeover in power sense was fantastic for some periods of time but then again, CN ain’t running from Mac to Stratford with an ex SP tunnel motor built in 1975 so I obviously still take those old EMD’s operating the Guelph Sub for granted. Here, CN L542 is seen backing down the main at XV with a solo hopper. They will then lift a cut of loaded centrebeams from the tail end of L540 for transfer to either Gilles Lumber or Hunt’s Logistics on the CNR Fergus Sub.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	3/15/2019
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 17 Favourites

The light blue morning sky is cloudless and the sun is in full force in the city of Cambridge this morning as this years CP weed sprayer train soars over the Grand River with 1983 built SD40-2 numbered 6045 in the lead. At roughly 25mph, the engineer will ease the train spraying chemicals along the ROW towards London with a Track Block west of Woodstock where the train will hold for a time amount I’m unaware of. Good to see spring developing and the grey colours being eliminated with the blooming green trees and the bright sunlight. Temperature was ideal near the water as well, such an amazing morning.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	5/20/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 13 Favourites

The scene here looks to be rather dull or gloomy but minus those characteristics, the railway part of this scene is rather interesting. Early afternoon after L540 (5790W) and L568 (4136W) both left Kitchener for Stratford, a crew was ordered (I’d assume under ID X568 or X540) to take 4125 solo down the Huron Park Spur with interchange traffic for CP. Just after 17:00, I got word that they were coming up to South Junction with about 20 cars for CP. Nice. 5 minute drive for a solo GP9Rm up the Huron Park was something I’ve never seen. Waiting at Madison Ave for the train to come into frame, it was taking a while so a quick drive towards it would answer my questions. Arriving at the interchange to see this.. 4125 with no cars, no crew and not even burning diesel. The point of this for me anyway is to prove how instantly operations can seize for the day no matter what the train is doing, and where it’s doing it. I’ve never seen CN power sit with no crew waiting for next assignment here so it was a change at least but I was obviously looking forward to the shots of it operating.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	5/19/2020
Location:	Kitchener
Province:	Ontario

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CN 568 is all red today thankfully after weeks of it being a pair of obnoxiously, unpleasant (for me) blue GMTX geeps surrounding 4790. 4136, 4125, 7083, and 4790 are pulling hard taking 568’s tonnage up the dip west of Shakespeare. It was an interesting hand off today, a later 540 arriving at Kitchener just short of 13:00 being replaced by 568’s crew immediately as 540 terminated in Kitchener making the handoff between assignments quick and ideal for getting 568 in good light west of Kitchener.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	5/16/2020
Location:	Shakespeare
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

One of OSR’s RS18u’s no. 182 takes GJR’s daily job from CP’s Guelph Junction to North Guelph with cars for the North Guelph Spur and interchange with CN. Near the end of June / start of July, OSR is backing out of supplying GJR horsepower meaning a new operator is in search. So I guess it’s safe to say once that time hits, MLW smoke shows in the heart of downtown Guelph will be a thing of the past. Here, both MLW built 182 & 505 are smoking away taking a small tonnage of train through Downtown Guelph along Cardigan Street. The snow melted by the time he was done switching out the siding in Arkell and PDI east of York Road but you can still see all the snow on the windshields of the cars parked along Cardigan. As I type this now, 6 hours after this was shot, there is not a spec of snow on the ground and the scene outside certainly feels and looks like spring which is clearly not the condition in the photo. Weather is truly wack right now.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	5/11/2020
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

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Getting across Ontario making decent time, 5626 is solo in charge of 72 cars of loaded windmill blades from Quebec on route to interchange in the Chicago land area. No slow orders between Mac Yard and Paris for this train making it a fast run until his first meet with G846 just after the slow order at Paris Junction (all trains do not exceed 30 mph is what I heard on the day of). After that meet occurred, these loaded blades were doing nothing but crawling until 434 bypassed him on the south track near the hotbox detector at mile 40. Finally, after cruising at a speed rate of 20 minutes for every 5 miles, X319 is working up to the mile a minute speed as it flies over the CP St Thomas Sub just west of Woodstock VIA at Carew.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	5/3/2020
Location:	Woodstock
Province:	Ontario

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OSR’s Tilsonburg Job is seen blasting through Walker Road in the fields of Southern Ontario after lifting one tank car from IGPC Ethanol in Aylmer. Hard to believe this is it. This is the last (OSR) run on CN’s Cayuga Sub that’s seen many Wabash/N&W/NS run through trains in it’s time prior to the early 90’s. OSR’s plans to cease operations on the line between St Thomas and Tilsonburg really looked like reality today as they cleared every single tank car from Tilsonburg Yard on it’s return trip to St Thomas. It was great shooting it and it will truly be interesting to know what the future of the former “Air Line” has to offer. As a note, the motion blurred Mazda in the shot is RP contributes Mike Molnar and Alex Sanders who clearly lost the race to the intersection against 6508.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	4/30/2020
Location:	Glencolin
Province:	Ontario

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