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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.
Dave Brook's Railpictures.ca photo upload statistics
Number of images: 798
Total gold: 6687
Number of comments recieved : 736
Number of comments posted : 592
Total views: 686897
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Dave Brook's 798 photos on Railpictures.ca:
![Morning light in the old..but not oldest Killean Siding.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_6655-copy1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 07/12/2024 |
Location: | Cambridge |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Not to be outdone, CP also chipped in with an SD40-2 leader in 2024. Every time it happens, you wonder if it's the last time.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_3521-Edit1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 07/01/2024 |
Location: | Cambridge |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Things unimaginable in 2024, but this one had a huge following.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_3910-Edit-copy1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 03/16/2024 |
Location: | Woodstock |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Can you make a DPU look interesting?](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_6474-Edit-copy1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 07/06/2024 |
Location: | Parry Sound |
Province: |
Ontario |
![VIA 2 slides into Washago right on time, having made up the hour it was behind at Capreol. One meet at Brechin, and Union Station is next.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_4410-Edit1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | VIA Rail |
Date: | 07/05/2024 |
Location: | Washago |
Province: |
Ontario |
![There are stories out that KCS units are being upgraded with hot plates etc. to make them compliant with Canadian contracts. There have been a lot of KCS leaders in Ontario lately, but seeing one on the Seguin River Trestle still seems really weird.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_6459-Edit1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 07/06/2024 |
Location: | Parry Sound |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Hot train is coming, so the shortest stack train......OK, it's a tie distribution train sneaks back into South Parry. I worked a tir collection job for CN on the Mountain Park Sub in 1983. We used empty flat cars, and a front end loader with a claw to pick them up. Every single time, I was sure it was going to tip....craziness.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_6364-Edit-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Maintenance of Way |
Date: | 07/06/2024 |
Location: | Parry Sound |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Under the watchful eye of the Hgger, H72 sits stretched out over the Grand River (hard to imagine the whole bridge used to be visible from here in the 70's) while waiting for a crew to finish changing out a couple of ties on the Waterloo Sub. In about 10 minutes, they'll start dragging 8000 feet of racks off to Toyota for loading.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_8494-Edit-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 06/13/2024 |
Location: | Cambridge |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Could anyone have seen this coming? Leading out of Toronto in 2024.And that you'd risk missing the shot to try of a pan?](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_8401-Edit-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 06/12/2024 |
Location: | Puslinch |
Province: |
Ontario |
![That last little steep section on the approach to the Continental Divide.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/DSC02769-Edit-copy1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 05/19/2013 |
Location: | Stephen |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![Another KCS leader in the early morning rain.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_8067-Edit-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 06/03/2024 |
Location: | Cambridge |
Province: |
Ontario |
![After a morning paddling around Lake Couchiching, a quick check of the northbound signal at Washago says red. Look left, and this is just coming through the switch where the Newmarket Sub joins the Bala. So much has changed here, there once being 4 tracks; 2 Bala, and 2 Newmarket. Nothing is forever.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_7925-Recovered-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 05/31/2024 |
Location: | Washago |
Province: |
Ontario |
![With smoke haze returning to Ontario, the much followed KCSM 4009 military tribute unit trails (sadly, that would have been asking a lot) on 134 east of Cambridge, Ont.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_8025-Edit1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 06/01/2024 |
Location: | Puslinch |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Summer colours are breaking out.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_7085-Edit1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 05/23/2024 |
Location: | Cambridge |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Toto, maybe we are still in Kansas......](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_7003-copy1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 05/18/2024 |
Location: | Puslinch |
Province: |
Ontario |
![I still find this a novelty; especially a GM leader. And with it taking CP 15-20 years (I'm guessing; I don't see it being a priority considering their financial situation) to repaint the fleet, there will likely be mixtures like this and more for the foreseeable future. But 3 years ago, this would have had a sea of foamers following. Now, it's normal.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_6896-Edit-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 05/16/2024 |
Location: | Cambridge |
Province: |
Ontario |
![With CSX 870 trailing, 137 rumbles along towards Wolveton for work, and eventually Chicago.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_6798-Edit1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 05/14/2024 |
Location: | Puslinch |
Province: |
Ontario |
![The pandemic was a miserable experience. But for a few weeks in early fall, the wonderful people at CP's power control gave the Galt Subbers a real treat. I'm not sure who first called them the triplets (TM), but for about 6 weeks 2 SD60's 6248, 6236 and SD30ECO 5012 made the thrice weekly trip from London to Buffalo and back. I went to as many places as I could think of to try and catch them knowing that a repeat was highly unlikely (they came close when 2 SD70's were assigned to it this spring)
In throttle 8, attacking Orr's Lake Hill, three narrow cab GM's made a wonderful sound.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/0H7A4537-Edit-copy1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 09/20/2020 |
Location: | Cambridge |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Knocking down the lights at Paris, and about to wind things back upon to track speed after the 40 mph restriction through the S curve.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5753-Edit-copy1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | VIA Rail |
Date: | 04/25/2023 |
Location: | Paris |
Province: |
Ontario |
![The unimaginable has become routine.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_6467-Edit1280-200x150.jpg)
Name: | David Brook |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific K… |
Date: | 05/07/2024 |
Location: | Cambridge |
Province: |
Ontario |
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