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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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![Click to see winning image: Perhaps a bit of confusion on my headings due to the fact this is a CN area image, but a couple of C](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/images/timemachine.png)
![Click to see winning image: Well before the days of Shared Assets running thru Parry Sound we see the southbound Toronto section](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/images/timemachine.png)
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![It was getting rather late in the afternoon as CP's #522 rolled into Hamilton. The image was shot from a little bridge that provides the entrance to Cathedral Basilica Christ the King, that city landmark that can be seen for miles by eastbound drivers on the Hwy 403. No engines on this train carry the CP banner, although SOO was part of the CP family back then. The leader 6604 was painted into CP colours around 2000. Later in 2016 it was absorbed into the company's ECO program. Trailing units, both leased, are PNCX 3012 and HLCX 4062. In 1995 CP was really heavy into leasing, having more than 200 units working system-wide, as new locomotive orders were just beginning to arrive.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SOO-6604-522-Hamilton-ON-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | SOO Line |
Date: | 10/11/1995 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Beautiful morning for photography, but I am too high up on Dundas Peak to read #70's engine number. These BBD LRC units were rather short-lived on VIA due to numerous problems with their operation. They lasted but 20 years, from early 1980s to around 2001. Things are not the same any more on the peak either. Controlled parking and fat entrance fee to the area has pretty well kept the fans from bothering this location any more.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/VIA-LRC-Dundas-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | VIA Rail |
Date: | 07/00/1984 |
Location: | Dundas |
Province: |
Ontario |
![The makeover from CN to VIA on the old cab units was a really interesting time for the fans. The very thought of just what might be seen had me out as often as running away from work would allow. Of course nowhere near as often as I would have liked.
A nice example of what could be seen is this image taken on a cold day in February 1979. Unfortunately I have misplaced my notes so not sure of the exact date. CN 6785 and VIA 6761 sure looked good as photographed coming off the CN Oakville sub onto the CN Dundas Sub at Bayview Junction, a most popular railfan location between Burlington and Hamilton. I don't believe either of these units have survived over the years.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CN-6785-6761-wBayw-Feb-1979-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 02/00/1979 |
Location: | Bayview Junction |
Province: |
Ontario |
![The scene is a rather peaceful afternoon at Bayview Junction, back before the hassle-free days came to an end. A trio of railfans watch CN 4102 & 6622 heading westward from Toronto. This might be the mid-afternoon #83, now long gone from the timetable. Although we are in the very early days of VIA, their newly painted B unit already looks rather grubby.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CN-4102-Bayview-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 10/09/1978 |
Location: | Bayview Jct |
Province: |
Ontario |
![CP SD40 #5539 and sister roar by the old Galt station, extra flags flying, on a somewhat gloomy day back in 1975. I miss seeing the nose paint scheme.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1975-6-xx-CP-5539-west-Galt-sta.2-1-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 06/00/1975 |
Location: | Cambridge Galt |
Province: |
Ontario |
![There are some locomotive models that we take for granted, and then all of a sudden, where did they all go? With me it was these behemoth NS Dash 8s, Dash 9s and the like. One day I realized I was not seeing them any more. No wonder. They were all retired.
In this image, it is an early winter's morning, so early that I found I had to drive east of Grimsby to get enough light for a decent shot. Every minute counts when dealing with early mornings. NS 8794 Dash 9, 8732 Dash 8 and 5418 SD50 x-Conrail provide plenty of horsepower needed to carry #328 eastward to the US border.
This old bridge is gone as well. Considered unsafe.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2006-1-12-NS-8794-328-Jordan-Ont-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Norfolk Southern |
Date: | 01/12/2006 |
Location: | Lincoln (Regional … |
Province: |
Ontario |
![I'm not seeing these days those great lash ups of former years, and I miss them. I have posted a shot of this train before, but this #394 is worthy of a second offering. This one is of it on approach to Paris West. The power is CN 5618, WC 7518, BNSF 507, 6312, CN 5701, 5603, and 6019.
Beautiful sunny cold day. Haven't seen many of those kind of days this winter of 2023/24. Strange weather.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2004-12-CN-Falkland-Ont-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 12/27/2004 |
Location: | Falkland |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Smithville, situated about one third of the way from Hamilton toward Fort Erie for you out of province viewers, had one of the most beautiful, whimsical stations in Ontario. The structure was built in 1903, replacing an earlier station that burned. This image shows what must be the last gorgeous paint job before the station was abandoned after CP discontinued the Budd car passenger service in the spring of 1981. It sat empty until 1990. West Lincoln County purchased the building and at great expense had the station moved back from the railroad onto a good basement foundation. Later on, the West Lincoln Historical Society bought the station and lot from the Township of West Lincoln, and with the generosity of members and volunteers have kept the building in tip-top condition.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1975-11-xx-Smithville-THB-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Toronto Hamilton a… |
Date: | 11/001975 |
Location: | Smithville |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Don't recall what day it was, as notes are lost, but I do remember it being really hot and steamy. But then, it is July. CN 4592 is seen running westbound to Aldershot with some sort of special move. I miss those old wooden "Junction" signs...the one in this case referring to Burlington and the Halton-Oakville Jct. QEW overpass in background.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CN-4592-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 07/00/1975 |
Location: | Burlington (Alders… |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Set of Penn Central units; from front to back in photo, PC 5820, 3819, 3100 and 8100. The location is by King St and the locomotives are backing down into the yard at Chatham St to pick up their train for the Starlite's return to Toronto. Middle pair of units were built as "B" units, without cabs.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1975-6-xx-CR-5820-Hamilton-Ont-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Penn Central |
Date: | 06/00/1975 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![This was a morning I had gone out for whatever, maybe groceries, I dunno; when I saw a headlight down the line as I was crossing the tracks. Anyone who railfans Niagara knows that morning shots of westbounds are next to impossible as you end up shooting right into the sun.
So I went down a country road and decided I might shoot this if it had anything good. I was really surprised at the leader........one of the four (8100-8103) EMD SD70ACe demonstrators that came to CN in January 2014, so this was shot not long after they arrived. Certainly is a striking paint job. A number of fans had a lot of luck photographing these before they got painted into standard CN, but I wasn't one of them. This was the best I could do.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2014-1-26-CN-8101-Beamsville-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 01/26/2014 |
Location: | Beamsville |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Seen here rolling over the CN Carew diamond, an OSR special family outing train is on the way to their connector with CP. They will stop by the old CP station there in Woodstock. The OSR 1245 will run around the passenger coach and they will head back to Salford. What a way to spend a nice warm Sunday afternoon.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2013-7-14-OSR-1245-Carew-edited-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Ontario Southland |
Date: | 07/14/2013 |
Location: | Woodstock |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Late afternoon, around 1800 hrs, when eastbound VIA #76 rolled to a stop at Burlington, the sun angle was very harsh. As a result, I often spent time sitting on whatever was available over on the north side of the Oakville sub to catch #76 when it rolled in. This is in the very early days of VIA, so CN's 4017 and 4104 provided the power, followed by that all-important steam jenny. I think this particular shot was of a weekday train. Many of my notes from winter/spring 1978 were lost, unfortunately. Maybe the cat ate them.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1978-3-CN-4017-Burlington-Sta-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 03/00/1978 |
Location: | Burlington |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Along with the view taken from the road bridge over the railroad at the Grand River in Cayuga, I'm offering this shot of the mess that piled up when this probably westbound train derailed a few cars into the frozen river. I have no idea why my film developed so poorly from this adventure. Just one of those happenings. But at least one can see the extent of the damage. I did see a couple of other photographers up near the wreck, but I stayed back.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1978-3-wreck-at-Cauga-edited-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Conrail |
Date: | 03/00/1978 |
Location: | Cayuga |
Province: |
Ontario |
![By the look of it a freight running westbound ran into a problem on the bridge over the Grand River at Cayuga. We're looking at a 622 foot bridge at mile 46.38.
I have been unable to find out anything on this derailment and so throwing this shot out to RP in hopes someone can give us the information needed.
Just by chance I happened upon this.
Most of the cars that derailed went off on the north side so I went up the sideroad somewhere (I forget) and did a rather miserable walk over the frozen river and about 6 or 8 inches of snow.....strong wind at my back really did a number on me when I was returning to the car. At least a dozen cars piled down below the bridge.
I'm assuming it was a Conrail train. Anyone know? THANKS.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1978-3-Wreck-at-Cayuga-trestle-edited-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Conrail |
Date: | 03/00/1978 |
Location: | Cayuga |
Province: |
Ontario |
![I have to admit I do miss those colourful Sperry cars that used to roam the rail system. I don't know how long it has been since the cars were replaced by rather unappealing trucks, but it has got to be 25 years. What a difference. With the cars there was room to roam around; with the truck you are pretty much stuck in the seat. Usually when I see one of the Sperry Rail Service trucks these days it is parked alongside the line at a crossing waiting for rail traffic to clear. Must make for a long day for those fellers.
This image was taken in early March of 1978 showing the SRS car #139 crossing over Fourth St Louth in West St. Catharines.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1978-3-SRS-139-St.-Catharines-Ont-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Sperry Rail Servic… |
Date: | 03/00/1978 |
Location: | St. Catharines |
Province: |
Ontario |
![It was getting late in the day as I shot this. Heard a #640 on the scanner and just made it to this location ahead of it. This is at the foot of Main St in Waterdown, once known as Waterdown South, and there used to be a silo and rail spur here on the left (see RP photo #46311).
I was rather shocked to see a gaggle of gals sitting on the rails while one was photographing another. I guess they thought they were "pros" using an umbrella for lighting balance. I yelled at them a train was coming and the one yelled back saying "they don't use this track any more". And then the rumble............. If they were locals, they should pay more attention to their surroundings. Stay Off The Tracks. You can never say that enough. Anyway, the power shown is CP 8512, CEFX 1026 and CP 8203. An earlier drizzle sure brought out the colours; as did Mr. Host, who worked on this image a bit to sharpen it as I had shot at a very low shutter speed.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/100_6013-edited-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 10/14/2012 |
Location: | Waterdown |
Province: |
Ontario |
![One would assume business is picking up on the fledgling Forty Mile Rail Line, which runs from a connection with CP at Stirling to the community of Foremost, Alberta, which is actually 50 miles. The HLCX 4224 is listed in the Trackside Guide as being on their roster. The other two are not. I did see FURX 4222 on the property a couple of years ago, and now they have added, at least for now 6327, which the reporting marks indicate it was assigned to the Lake Line Railroad of Manitoba. Wide open plain, good sun and colourful locomotives makes for a nice photo.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-9-17-40-Mile-Rail-Line--200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Forty Mile Rail Li… |
Date: | 09/17/2023 |
Location: | Stirling |
Province: |
Alberta |
![There were only 4 of these SD90MAC-H locomotives on CP, which made them rather difficult to catch. I had very limited success. It was nice to unexpectedly bag this one while hanging around at CP Reynolds along James Bay Junction Rd, just "waiting for something to happen". Due to constant reliability problems these units had a short life on CP. Built in 1999 and all retired by 2008 ! Trailing unit is CP 5915.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2003-4-CP-9301-103-S.Parry_-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 04/30/2003 |
Location: | South. Parry (Reyn… |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Crossing the majestic Parry Sound CP bridge, a CN work extra with a long train of Camp Cars behind CN 2585 takes advantage of the directional running in which CP and CN trains run north (read: west) and southward trains use the CN line thru town. Sun is perfect on this structure in the late afternoon.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2006-4-Camp-Cars-Parry-Sound-Ont-200x150.jpg)
Name: | A.W.Mooney |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 04/25/2006 |
Location: | Parry Sound |
Province: |
Ontario |
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