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Railroad photographer and recent RTA School of Media graduate from Waterdown, Ontario.

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Number of images: 154
Total gold: 1806
Number of comments recieved : 314
Number of comments posted : 166
Total views: 201904



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Easing down the mountain grade at Waterdown, Ontario with 12,000 tons on the drawbar, script-painted SD70ACu 7014 looks phenomenal in the afternoon sun. In the 1960s, the CPR emblazoned their locomotives with this very paint scheme. Today, a handful of Canadian Pacific's former SD90MACs, which were seemingly destined for the scrapper’s torch, now display the company’s proud heritage and roll on — serving a reminder of the railway’s significance both past and present. Simply put, Tuscan and grey is always in style.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/16/2020
Location: Waterdown
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 13 Favourites
On the ninth day of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation rail blockade in Ontario - a day after CN announced it would "shut down its Eastern Canada network" - a handful of trains took the scenic route over the Ontario Northland Railway to reach their respective destinations of Toronto (southbound) and Northern Quebec (northbound). Here, detoured CN stack train no. 149 is seen racing southbound along ONR's Temagami Subdivision, kicking up snow by line's gorgeous namesake station.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/14/2020
Location: Temagami
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 20 Favourites
A photogenic pair of locomotives lumber a long and heavy no. 118 through the farm fields at Newtonville, Ontario. Upon departing Toronto Yard and providing their tonnage reading, RTC was nearly agasp by the numbers. "This is the heaviest train we've had all year", the conductor proclaimed. RTC responded with the slightest hesitation, "Alright, well, give us an update on your speed once you get to Darlington. Over". Having made Darlington problem-free, 118 was still struggling to get up to track speed at Newtonville. Here, CP 7004 and KCS 5019 are pouring it on and brightening up an otherwise bland December's day. Slowly but surely knocking down the miles to Montreal.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/29/2019
Location: Newtonville
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 15 Favourites
Determined to make it home for Christmas Eve, the crew aboard train no. 246-24 waste no time as they negotiate the confines of the Hunter Street Tunnel. Even amongst the gritty backstreets of Hamilton, SD70ACU 7006 looks particularly brutish.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/24/2019
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 13 Favourites
A quintet of Central Maine & Quebec SD40-2Fs ease US-bound train no. 2 along the snow-covered back streets at Lennoxville, Quebec on a glorious winter's morning. At the time (for reasons to me now unknown), I was very disappointed with the results of this chase. I had accidentally set the image stabilizer on my lens to "Mode 2", which I was convinced had ruined my photographs. However, less than a year removed from that fateful February morning, and with the news of CP's impending takeover, I can easily look past whatever bad maple syrup I was drinking. Time heals all.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Central Maine and …
Date: 02/01/2018
Location: Lennoxville
Province: Quebec
2 Comments | 18 Favourites
Canadian Pacific 6644 brings up the rear of train no. 112 as 8116 eases by on the main with Edmonton-bound no. 119, during a whiteout at MacTier, Ontario.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/01/2019
Location: MacTier
Province: Ontario
Comments | 12 Favourites
Behind the blue Rockies the sun is declining as a lone SD40-2 hustles along the banks of the Bow River with a single gondola for Eldon.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/14/2019
Location: Castle Mountain
Province: Alberta
3 Comments | 15 Favourites
Wearing the grey, red and black colour pattern of modern Canadian and American warships, Canadian Pacific 7022 rumbles through Hamilton's gritty backstreets aboard (Frontier Yard) Buffalo, NY to (Agincourt Yard) Toronto, ON train # 247.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/24/2019
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
Canadian Pacific 7023 flies along the Macter Subdivision under stormy skies with train no. 112 at Baxter, Ontario.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/22/2019
Location: Baxter
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 21 Favourites
Complete with a two-tone grey paint scheme designed after the livery applied to Canadian and American fighter jets, CP 7023 triumphantly hauls Vancouver to Montreal stack train no. 112 down the Mactier Subdivision at Craighurst, Ontario, on her maiden voyage across the country.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/22/2019
Location: Craighurst
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 16 Favourites
Racing along the banks of the Bow River under a dramatic sky, westbound Canadian Pacific intermodal train no. 101 glides through the iconic, and world-renowned location known as Morant's Curve on the approach to Lake Louise, Alberta.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/15/2019
Location: Lake Louise
Province: Alberta
1 Comments | 17 Favourites
Mount Girouard looms in the background as a lone, road-worn SD40-2 works the yard at Banff, Alberta.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/14/2019
Location: Banff
Province: Alberta
1 Comments | 13 Favourites
Solitude at Ogden. The moon rises above Canadian Pacific 6644 on Remembrance Day 2019 in Calgary, Alberta.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/11/2019
Location: Calgary
Province: Alberta
2 Comments | 19 Favourites
Glacier Park brings up the rear of VIA Rail's "Canadian" as it soars above Parry Sound on a gorgeous autumn afternoon.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 10/20/2019
Location: Parry Sound
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 15 Favourites
With a crew ordered at Mactier for 0400, the odds of Canadian Pacific's RCP train making Toronto in daylight looked slim. Sometimes, though, the best bet is to take a gamble. At least that is what I told myself as I set off for CP's Mactier Subdivision under the cover of darkness. Arriving at Mile 23 well before sunrise, anticipation grew with the passage of each train that ran ahead of 40B as night gave way to dawn and eventually the first rays of light. Almost three hours and three freight trains later, CP 4107 called a clear signal on the approach to Bolton, racing towards Toronto in glorious morning light. Sometimes you just get lucky.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/16/2019
Location: Bolton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 19 Favourites
Déjà vu: Road-worn, but still earning their keep, a pair of 'Zebra Stripe' GP38-2Ws guide train L540 through Guelph, ON in a scene that likely hasn't played out since CN last operated on this line in the 1990s. Up until CN's takeover of the Guelph Subdivision on November 16th, 2018, this line was operated by the Goderich-Exeter Railway.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/04/2018
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 11 Favourites
Winter's glow on the high iron.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/15/2018
Location: Campbellville
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 20 Favourites
GEXR 582 rambles along the north end of the Waterloo Spur in Elmira, ON, as seen from the night sky.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 09/16/2018
Location: Elmira
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 13 Favourites
On the afternoon following the region's first major snowstorm, and CN's takeover of the GEXR, Quebec & Gatineau 2008 lugs CN train no. 432 through the countryside at Mosborough, ON. A shot of redemption for those trackside after GEXR's rather unceremonious departure from Southern Ontario the day prior. Although these locomotives don't read "GEXR", their character is everything railfans came to love the railroad for. Nothing like old-school EMDs hauling heavy duty tonnage at speed. Perhaps things didn't end the way people had expected them to, but as far as I'm concerned, this send off was good enough for me.
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Quebec Gatineau Ra…
Date: 11/16/2018
Location: Mosborough
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 14 Favourites
A hint of Southern Pacific in the Royal City. With less than a week until the CN takeover, GEXR train no. 431 rumbles through downtown Guelph with an ex-Cotton Belt tunnel motor doing the honours. The recently applied 'after market' nose decal was a welcomed addition!
Name: Ryan Gaynor
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 11/10/2018
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
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