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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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Railroading harmony as T72 prepares to grab another track full of racks for Toyota; creating a train that, before the bridge would have blocked downtown Galt for 15 minutes or more. In the background, 244 with CN 2682 leading prepares to couple onto another 50 racks growing their train to 10000 feet.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/03/2021
Location:	Ayr
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

Something seems out of place. Ontario's highlight of the day was CP 244, once again a 10000 foot train led by CN 2682 and Heritage CP 7014 crossing the Grand River. While relatively common, this is my first time seeing CN on CP's tracks much less leading, and the trailer is perhaps more rare.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/03/2021
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

The days are getting longer. For the first time since daylight savings time ended, 147 appeared in daylight one a weekday in Cambridge. Better still, CP saved up a beauty; CP 8048, BNSF 6888, CP 6259 have the honours lugging only 5 racks on their way to Wolverton...and eventually Chicago.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/02/2021
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Back in the days of CP's Expressway service to Windsor. Here the afternoon, 124 is into the last 25 miles of it's trip to Hornby with 2 of the more tadeonal 3 SD40-2's.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	2003?
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

The more I think about it, the 80's and first half of the 90's; while the MLW's were still around, were the Golden Years of Canadian diesel railroading. The power was almost always up front, anything was possible in a lashup, and the variety of shapes and sizes was endless.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/1983
Location:	Vaughn
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 12 Favourites

With a light train, 147 makes quick work of Orr's Lake Hill.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/23/2021
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 12 Favourites

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/16/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 12 Favourites

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/09/2019
Location:	Paris
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

Necessity is the mother of invention. I have shot across this field on many occasions, but that's about to change; someone has bought the farmland and is building a house that will block the view. But for now, there's a nice big hill of dirt, and that gives a nice new angle on 147, heading for Chicago with 36 racks, that will grow significantly at Wolverton in 15 more miles.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/09/2021
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/07/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Anytime you get something other than 2 GE's, it's kind of special. Throw in classic; yes, I know it's a rebuild but those HTC trucks are fabulous, and it's a good day.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/08/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 4 Favourites

The plan was a "chase". Mother Nature had other ideas. So here is 651, approaching Galt doing about 50 with KCS 4584 and KCSM 4132 trailing. 5 minutes on the 401 made it clear there was no hope of keeping up. So it goes....

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/03/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

There's 106 years of service on 435's rather senior consist today. 2449, 2124, and 4705 are throwing heat as they finish off the last of the climb up the Niagara Escarpment....and I was really lucky; 5 minutes later the clouds had n=moved in.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	12/31/2020
Location:	Copetown West
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

Yes, it's crummy out, but worth a chase....the rain falling a little less intensely as 650 gets back up to track speed after descending Orrs Lake Hill, and pulling out of the Grand River sink.2 KCS "Southern Belle's" made this the most watched train in Ontario, and likely the wettest group of chasers in some time.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/30/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 10 Favourites

I suspect this will be one of the "highlight trains" in Southern Ontario this year. To help out, Mother Nature offered a monsoon just to add some "atmosphere"...large amounts of which fell from the sky.

But here we have 650, in a downpour approaching Blandford Siding with 6232 followed by KCS 4132 and 4584; units that would have looked fabulous in even a muted sun.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/30/2020
Location:	Woodstock
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

This isn't Iowa. Along with CP 6248, the light snow spins off the not terribly common foreign leader in Ontario. 244 accelerates out of Galt destined for Toronto on a fabulous winter morning.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/29/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 20 Favourites

Along with 8718 ( the new twins of 254 for a coupe of weeks), 254 approaches the descent into the Grand River Valley showing some of its snowy adventures since London, but with not quite enough "ummppphhh" to really kick up more.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/26/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

Not since the days of cabooses have I been this interested in the rear end of a train. With one on the front, 2 on the back CP 650 descends Orr's Lake Hill with a healthy dose of air to go with the dynamic brakes holding back another "sea" of ethanol. CSX 3192 has the honour sport at the tailend....a nice treat.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/09/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

The "Sunday Afternoon Special", doing its bet imitation of 147...10000 feet of racks adds a shot of colour to the scenery on its was to Chicago...or wherever they decide it should terminate. 9707 looks oily enough to be an imitation of an MLW of the golden years

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/06/2020
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

An act as old as railroading itself …the roll by inspection. 147 waits for 2-240 at Orr's Lake (just above Cambridge) and the waiting crew gets off to give the other train a running gear, dragging equipment, anything out of the ordinary look over, a tradition that goes back to day1.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/05/2020
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

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