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About Dave Brook

I started chasing trains after listening to my grandfathers stories of riding steam through the Rockies, and seeing the ore train in Bracebridge. From that I worked for CN/VIA/GO Transit for 6 years before becoming an air traffic controller. I discovered I liked trains more from the outside than in.

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It's a cold...for Ontario -20 out, as 134 negotiates the masterpiece of rolls that is the Galt Sub.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	12/22/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 8 Favourites

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/01/2023
Location:	Mactier
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	12/21/2024
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

The other high speed geared GP40 that VIA used to power Tempo trains to Windsor and Sarnia. Scanned from an old print. Surrounded by the other classics of Spadina in the day including ONR power for the overnight train to...at least Cochrane I believe.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1981
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

The sun is finally out, and it looks like winter in Southern Ontario....however briefly that may be in the KW area. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to one and all.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	12/21/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

No less than 8 units for 471 on this day. The 5 GP40-2's will be power for tomorrow's Ore Train; 730. The lead SD40-2 and 2 GP40's will bring 470 back to Toronto tomorrow. If I'd thought about it, the GP40's will probably be leading, but I wasn't thinking that far ahead in those days.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1984
Location:	Vaughan
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 12 Favourites

And these days, anything is still possible with foreign leaders in and out of Toronto almost being common if you include KCS.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	06/29/2024
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

From 200 on, almost anything was possible on the Galt for the chronically power short CP

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/18/2011
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 14 Favourites

Back in the day, there was a train with a schedule that was concrete. The St Thomas Oshawa frame train went east by Galt around 8am and west back west with empties around 1500. 2 GP's as the normal power; GP9's more often than anything else, although I did see it with GP38's and even ex-B&M GP 40-2's.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/29/2008
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 21 Favourites

The rail train awaits its crew as 134 flies by on a chilly morning.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	11/25/2024
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 8 Favourites

It's nice when a theory is correct. Knowing the 3 GM's came off 137 at Wolverton last night, I figured the first eastbound that had work would lift them. Happily arriving after sunrise, 5 pretty clean units including 3 classics (formerly known as the triplets), 134 heads on their last leg to Toronto.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	12/01/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 16 Favourites

They love us. They really love us. There's no other explanation. For the second Saturday in a row, the hottest train on the London Division, Toronto- Chicago all autos hotshot 137 has been led by GM classics. It's getting far too dark far too fast as 6309, 6011, and 5989 rocket towards Wolverton.....where this power will tragically be replaced by more traditional 6 motor GE's. But it's wonderful to see the old girls run......

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	11/30/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 8 Favourites

It's so simple...hook the rail, and let the train drag it out slowly.....but stand well clear in case it "whips".

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	11/24/2024
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

There are some things that will never happen again....at least that's what you tell yourself each time you see it. SD40-2's are pretty common on rail and work trains and are still a delight to see. How about one leading the hottest rain on the London Division? Along with SD60 6248, 6012 is delighting in a short train of 40 empty multis putting out a sound that is so 1990...perfect. I wonder if I'll ever see that again?

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	11/22/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 10 Favourites

In the last 5 days, the Galt has been treated to 2 SD4-2 leaders (one on a rail train), an NS AC44, and this. There aren't many trains, but what there is......

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	11/27/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 9 Favourites

On back-to-back days, CP has come up with a masterpiece for 137. I'm no fan of one-lung trains, but with only 20 cars, a train at speed is still a delight.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	11/23/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 6 Favourites

Sometimes, you just get something that looks a little different even if you don't understand the physics of how.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	11/22/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

I can't really explain how I remember this being Toronto- Winnipeg 215. It was the third of the western hotshots out of Toronto behind 211; all pigs and pool cars to Winnipeg, 217 to Vancouver, and this one cleaned up the details. There was usually a large cut of empty lumber flats on the tail end that would go through to Edmonton, and most to Prince George from there. The C40's were just arriving on the property and this may well have been a first trip west where coal, grain and potash service awaited.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/1991
Location:	Capreol
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

The question was whether it was possible to make an ES44 look good. It would appear the answer is "no" :)

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	11/12/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 6 Favourites

You never really know what might happen. The long story....two days ago, Toronto-Detroit 135 (CP BNSF)had the CP engine fail around Milton. BNSF 4066 was dispatched from London or Ayr where it had been the power on empty rack train 734. At some point after that, 238's 2 CP GE's that were sitting in London were put on 135...or it's return 134. No idea what happened to the failed CP, but the 2 BNSF's were left to power 238 from London to Welland.

Which gets us to their return trip to London...in terrible light, so I gambled on 1/20th in the wind and tried to pan. In an mostly GE world, you try to find things to keep it interesting.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	11/08/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

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