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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

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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 | 18 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 | 14 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 | 15 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

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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

2 Comments | 15 Favourites

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

4 Comments | 8 Favourites

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

7 Comments | 19 Favourites

The conductor on 581 opens the door for a quick stretch departing Goderich as they prepare for the slow, jointed rail journey back to Stratford. Some classic G&W orange can be seen in the background as RLHH 2117 and QGRY 2500 sit quietly near the shop.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	4/24/2020
Location:	Goderich
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 8 Favourites

The sun didn’t feel like lighting this sweet area up for the shot but at least the shot was taken. GEXR 581 led by RLK 4095 an ex CN GP40 and piloted by an awesome crew notches the units up for the climb out of the Port of Goderich to the station up in town. They paused at the station (GEXR shop) for a quick break before running back to Stratford lifting cars at Seaforth Elevator on the way. The 16-cylinder turbocharged engine under 4095’s hood never disappoints in the high notches, at least for sound.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	4/24/2020
Location:	Goderich
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 12 Favourites

The day of the 2019 annual Bayview meet was rather just a gevo shooting festival until this showed up. After working Aldershot for a little while, the engineer on 435 opens up the throttle on the BC Rail C40-8M for the climb up to Copetown as it passes under the rocky part of the Niagara Escarpment overlooking Dundas Ontario. Batches of CN C40-8’s, C40-8W’s, and C40-8M’s on CN are planning to be sold throughout 2020 so I thought I’d take a trip down my gallery to remember what I captured of these dying breeds. This truly was an awesome day past after 16:00hrs. I also like the vibe of the BC rail under the mountain. Natural habitat? I think so

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	6/22/2019
Location:	Dundas
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

Sun playing tricks on me. OSR has strong plans to cease operations down CN’s Cayuga Sub by the end of the month meaning today as of April 9th 2020, will be its second out of fifth run as they operate the Tilsonburg job Thursday’s only. It’s truly crazy to know the history of rail lines and what traversed them in the past, this location is really one of them though that stands out as it was the scene of the diamond with the CASO and Cayuga Subdivisions. And now the only rail line that’s left in the scar of the busy diamond is coming to an end so thankfully, the sun cooperated for a nice scene with the refurbished caboose placed in between the 2 once busy lines. They crossed just behind this shot and you can still see the signal mast for the Wabash searchlight signal just behind the 2 SW 1200’s. The mast is now repainted and touched up in a bad way. At least in my opinion. The Cayuga Clipper will continue its slow run east towards Aylmer and Tilsonburg spotting on the way in Aylmer at the local ethanol industry. It would be unfortunate if all customers shut down as OSR ceases operation meaning the line is useless so it will most likely be torn up but who knows yet. Just gotta shoot it.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	4/9/2020
Location:	Yarmouth Centre
Province:	Ontario

9 Comments | 25 Favourites

An afternoon of sun led to an evening full of gloomy clouds and sun only possible in sucker holes that lasted just shy of a minute but at the last 20 minutes of light roughly, the sun provided an interesting affect to the moisture in the clouds that later came down at darkness. With a trio of GEVO’s wide open in throttle, a possible CN 398 pulls hard eastbound out of the city of London passing under the newly built Kiwanis Park pedestrian bridge over the double track just east of the yard lead at Highbury. This really was the only eastbound in the afternoon that wasn’t backlit so my brother Lucas, Mitchell Gault and I waited for an eastbound that came out under the skyline with the sun trying to give us somewhat of a silhouette.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	4/4/2020
Location:	London
Province:	Ontario

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CP’s CWR Train throttles up light power as it rolls down the east end of the wye at Galt Yard to tie onto their train sitting in the Galt passing track just behind the auto racks. The pair of multimark SD40-2’s will later take the train back east to Toronto after waiting for the CP 4522 and 3083 to tag onto the rail train for transit to Toronto. The pair of aged 40’s would sit on the east end of the wye until 255 cleared East Siding Switch Orr’s Lake for them to get the light and head east.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	4/5/2020
Location:	Galt
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 10 Favourites

OSR’s St Thomas Job has finished departing Putnam after switching a local propane supplier in the town. The 3 of us chased it down it’s straight run to St Thomas where the train will switch out the TTX boxcars on the head end at Messenger Freight then go on back to Ingersoll within the hour. The K3 horn from the ex SOO GP7 shattered the area as the engineer starting blowing for the crossing about 500 meters past the Highway 401 bridge. It was overall a gloomy day to chase OSR but this shot and a few others would’ve been in pretty harsh backlight if it wasn’t for the clouds. The Cayuga Clipper was already out of St Thomas at this point which we chased after this train started proceeding north back to Ingersoll meeting up with more of the guys on the way in the late afternoon. For me anyway, it’s good to grab lots of shots of runs that don’t occur daily at all as you know their day’s aren’t numbered, but their future isn’t as stable as something you would see on a class one rail line. OSR is rumoured to be ceasing operations down the Cayuga Sub at the end of the month so ignoring the lighting conditions, I’m glad we all had a good chase for something that is soon to be abolished quickly.

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

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Definitely not the coolest thing on CN’s roster up in lead, CN 331 (when it existed) drags it’s 150 car train down hill towards Komoka Junction passing under the scenic bridge at Franks Lane west of London that goes over the CN here, and under the CP to the north (left). The Kingpost truss bridge apparently was a rare form of truss bridge that had metal supports on the vertical parts on both sides as the rest of the bridge was made from solid wood. It definitely makes for a better picture location shooting the train going under this cool piece of infrastructure then standing on it shooting the plain straight double track and farm fields.

Name:	Liam Dumancic
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1/1/2020
Location:	Hyde Park
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

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