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Retired early due to health problems after 42 years in grocery business; started watching trains in the early 70s and took up photography in 1974 in Niagara, and of course Bayview Jct.. Graduated to a half decent camera a year later; the D&H is my favourite road (by far) but have done a fair amount of photography in Canada. As far as cameras go, suffered thru endless problems with the old Miranda series after ditching the Kodak 110 when I found I really was interested in this hobby and it wasn't just a passing fancy. Used Pentax series for a number of years before going to Mamiya 645 Mediums as well as a variety of old 4x5 Speed Graphics. Currently still shoot film with the 645s and an RB. Digital? Someday, maybe. Home is Grimsby, Ontario. Railpictures.ca is the first Site I have contributed to.

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Really refreshing to see the new colourful AMTK Phase VII paint on the morning Amtrak thru town. This #125 has been thru a couple of times in the past week and I finally some decent weather to shoot it in. It certainly looks sharp, and shows what a cosmetic makeover can do for an image.
(Thanks to Terry O'Shell for the heads-up)

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Amtrak
Date:	02/11/2025
Location:	Grimsby
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 14 Favourites

Looking out the back deck from a B&B in Port Hawkesbury, after engine 5008 passed I couldn't help but grab a shot of this van. CBNS #1000, (x-CN 78107) named "The Enterprise", was on lease to the CBNS until early 2002 when it was moved to Tatamagouche, NS and became part of a commercial enterprise under the name The Train Station Inn.

As this crewman looked out over his idyllic setting, I cannot help but wonder if his mind has tried to cancel, or even comprehend, the atrocities of "9/11", the unforgettable event that turned our world upside down only four days previous. Living and working in this part of the East it must he hard to imagine something like that ever happening. More like a TV movie. Lucky for him, and the rest of us here, this was about as far removed as one could get.
Its beautiful.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Cape Breton and No…
Date:	09/15/2001
Location:	Port Hawkesbury
Province:	Nova Scotia

5 Comments | 19 Favourites

Train time !! We had just checked in to a nearby hotel and wandered over to see what was going on by the tracks and lo and behold we see a headlight down the way.
VIA 6427 and 6145 with #693 northbound stopping at the station. And a nice sunny afternoon. Sometimes you get lucky.
Gorgeous station. Built in 1912 for the Canadian Northern Railway and named Heritage Railway Station of Canada in 1990.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	09/10/2024
Location:	Dauphin
Province:	Manitoba

5 Comments | 21 Favourites

Unfortunately almost too late in the day for this one, but late day there really isn't anywhere to decently shoot an eastbound around Bayview. So, for me, this is as good as it got: CN 2418, 2421, 5356, 9312, 9314, 5031 #380 with a nice assortment of power. All units now off the roster.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/11/1991
Location:	Bayview Junction
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

I've had really poor luck trying to catch one of these units in action. So I had to settle for this somewhat distant image. Anyway, dieselizing the INCO facility (now known as VALE) began in 2000 as the old electrics were phased out. There are 8 units in operation, rostered 2001-2008 and were former GP35 models until overhauled by MPI and released as GP38-4M. Nice attractive paint scheme.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	10/02/2008
Location:	Copper Cliff
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 18 Favourites

The new paint jobs on these two Great Sandhills units really make them stand out. I trust more will be done. The scene is late in the afternoon and this westbound has just finished putting its' train together at Pennant and is heading toward home base at Leader. We are just west of the Pennant as the grain elevator is actually in a hamlet referred to as Battrum. Anyway, nice countryside on a very pleasant day. Power is GSR 2022, 2009 and HLCX 3839.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Great Sandhills Ra…
Date:	09/15/2024
Location:	Pennant
Province:	Saskatchewan

5 Comments | 20 Favourites

Rather colourful 'NS' 328 Talbotville to Buffalo auto parts train; short on cars but long on power. Up front is UP 4339, HLCX (BN) 6297 and NS 5537. Train is seen rolling under Central Av bridge in Fort Erie, closing in on the International Bridge, gateway to the US of A.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Union Pacific
Date:	08/19/2005
Location:	Fort Erie
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 21 Favourites

Luck of the draw, I suppose, but I rarely saw this particular while out photographing. The CN 6521 became 6308 in the rebuild program of 1983-85 and ended up with the Georgia Southwestern.
It is a rather grubby looking morning out here at Bayview Jct watching this westbound roll by. The "B" unit looks to be 6630, can't quite make it out.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/00/1978
Location:	Bayview Junction
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 17 Favourites

While up in the northern Manitoba town of The Pas, looking for Keewatin's new power, we of course checked out the yard in town. And there sat a long string of 'new' HBRY SD60M locos, seemingly being stored. (The CTG lists a dozen of them- 6000-6011) They apparently were being overlooked in favour of HLCX 'geeps' which while we were there powered the morning train north to Thompson.
It certainly would have been nice to see these attractively painted units in action.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Hudson Bay Railway
Date:	09/13/2024
Location:	The Pas
Province:	Manitoba

3 Comments | 20 Favourites

An overview of the New Brunswick East Coast Railway engine facilities and shop. The NBEC came about in early 1998 as CN gave up their ownership to Quebec Railway Corp, which operated the NBEC until 2008 when CN made a deal with Quebec Railway Corp and took back several railroads as well as this one.
The NBEC operated with a slew of x-CP RS-18u locomotives and later took on a half dozen x-CP C-424s as well as the same number of former CN SD40s. The shop must have been kept busy keeping those old CP relics alive.
In the background is the J.V. Van Horne bridge, which spans the Chaleur Bay to Pointe-a-la-Croix, Quebec on the far shore.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	New Brunswick East…
Date:	09/10/2001
Location:	Campbellton
Province:	New Brunswick

2 Comments | 20 Favourites

After a rather frustrating day finding not much of anything in this part of lower Saskatchewan, we were quite pleased, while heading north, to meet this southbound on the Stewart Southern Railway. A pair of leased units with 7 tank cars in tow. I have to admit the spiffy clean paint job on both was a bonus as well. FURX 5529 and CRLX 2021, a pair of GP38-2 units is the power. This was actually the first time I had ever seen a locomotive with CRLX (Canadian Railserve) reporting marks....at least one in this paint. Nice!!

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Stewart Southern R…
Date:	09/09/2024
Location:	Francis
Province:	Saskatchewan

Comments | 20 Favourites

Its late in the day and the sun is going down behind the trees. This is the usual time I would catch a train coming over the river from the USA but I was rather surprised this was Conrail power and not Chessie. Grabbed this image along Palmer Av (visible on the left) because if I tried for a shot when it was coming up to Clifton Hill I would probably get stuck in traffic and definitely not be able to find a place to park. My usual double parking and jumping out for a photo was not making me any friends :o) So this was it. Power is CR 3065, 3682 (in EL paint) and 8254.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Conrail
Date:	05/31/1981
Location:	Niagara Falls
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 17 Favourites

York-Durham Heritage Railway RS-11 #3612, which began life as DW&P, same number; is seen in downtown Unionville on a special train (along with YDRC 3610). I believe the occasion was the Mid-Autumn Unionville festival, and what I saw of it had quite a large turnout.
After close to 30 years, the YD Heritage outfit announced bankruptcy at the beginning of 2024. I am wondering where all the locomotives went. Anyone know ??

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Tourist
Date:	09/22/2001
Location:	Unionville
Province:	Ontario

11 Comments | 16 Favourites

On the move eastward out of Swift Current CPKC yard is CP 7019, 5798 and 5766 with a GREX ballast dumping train. GREX 9500 is the blue spreader and behind is a long 'slot machine' string of ballast cars with excavator on rail cart.
GREX is the reporting mark of Georgetown (Texas) Rail Equipment Company. It was taken over and merged with Loram in 2018-2020 and I am wondering if the GREX identity is going to be phased out.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/16/2024
Location:	Swift Current
Province:	Saskatchewan

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

Hard to believe these BBD LRC-2 locomotives last saw service on the railroads back in 2001. Only 20 years (1981) from when they first appeared and now they are gone. And have already been gone over 20 years. Speaks volumes, I'd guess, about their (lack of) reliability. I enjoyed seeing them, since they were replacing Tempo trains thru Bayview, and any of us out trackside in those days had seen enough of the Tempos.
VIA was the only outfit to order these LRCs; totaling 31 engines (6900-6930) and they also 100 coaches, many of which are still seen along the lines. Two locomotives, 6917 and 6921 survive; the rest have been scrapped.
This image is of which I believe #70 (lost my notes) judging by the sun angle, rolling eastward under the "Railfans Walk bridge" at the Botanical Gardens just east of Bayview Junction. Beautiful day and not a soul on the bridge.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	06/25/1991
Location:	Bayview Junction
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

A look at the old Parry Sound CN station in town, as of this posting the image is from 48 years ago. It eventually became a Chamber of Commerce, then I think a private enterprise and last I heard, a few years ago, it was for sale. I get wondering what has become of it. Still standing, I'm sure.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/04/1976
Location:	Parry Sound
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

Far from the hey-day I knew at the "Sound"; the once popular CP station is now a commercial enterprise (at least it is still standing) and in the foreground one can see the passing track is being lifted and now it is just one main line track thru town.
This was a nice angle for north bounds; the foliage has been taking over in recent years though. Power on this manifest is CP 5800, 9014 and 5617.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/04/2003
Location:	Parry Sound
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 15 Favourites

Eastbound CP train #116 with SD90MAC 9111 on the lead is seen crossing the Nipigon River bridge on a late September afternoon in 2007.
Whenever I am around Nipigon I hang around a bit in hopes of catching a train here on account I love the rugged scenery in the area.
I kinda miss the MACs as well, with this one now rebuilt as SD70ACU #7031; I am thinking these rebuilds are just as much of annoyance to the Maintenance Shop as the MACs were.
Second unit is CP 8778. Track down below has now been lifted; it was the old CN Kinghorn Sub.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/26/2007
Location:	Nipigon
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 18 Favourites

A gas train had just departed Leader, SK and is about half way to the hamlet of Mendham when we caught up with it. The train is on the way to Burstall, another 23 miles down the line where it will work an energy facility there. Track speed is 10 MPH. Power consists of FURX 5519 (with Great Sandhills decal on side) HLCX 1031 and a former NS 5543; a unit which I saw on Wheatland Rwy a couple of years previous.
The location I shot this at I believe is Township Rd 220, and we are about 2 miles out of Leader, the hub for the GSR.
I was under the impression short lines did not work weekends, yet here it is a Sunday and there were trains operating on both ends of the roughly 130 mile line. Busy times !!

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Great Sandhills Ra…
Date:	09/15/2024
Location:	Leader
Province:	Saskatchewan

2 Comments | 12 Favourites

Algoma Central #180 sits outside the relatively new shop building in Hawk Junction. This unit would be around another 5 years or so before scrapping after being involved in a wreck.
I do miss the days of the AC. The area, now under CN is more like a desolate wasteland compared to back in the times I visited in the 70s & 80s.
An article I found on-line states that this unit was lost due to a derailment in 1980 caused a rail at mile 4 being removed by section men who had been fired by the company. This was how they showed their 'appreciation'. Since I shot this image in 1985, I am thinking the date in the report was erroneous, instead of 1980 the incident probably occurred May 14, 1990.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Algoma Central
Date:	08-09-1985
Location:	Hawk Junction
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 17 Favourites

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