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About CNCNDR


I've been interested in trains since I was young, I started photographing them with a cheap point and shoot camera around 2004 and from there it grew. I use an A700 DSLR camera with various lenses including the Carl Zeiss 24-70, Sony 70-400 G to name a few. A city boy all my life, I quickly became interested in the railway and it's operations, now proudly working as a railway conductor for the Canadian National Railway Company for 7 years in active service, I serve my part in moving the North American economy.

CNCNDR's Railpictures.ca photo upload statistics


Number of images: 431
Total gold: 3767
Number of comments recieved : 494
Number of comments posted : 45
Total views: 816358



CNCNDR has won Editors Choice 4 times



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CNCNDR's 431 photos on Railpictures.ca:


<b>Suckerhole</b> With just enough sunlight before the next set of clouds roll past, CP 6080 West shoots through the countryside west of Puslinch towards Galt and then Preston to drop the final strands of ribbon rail on the Waterloo Sub.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/05/2020
Location: Puslinch
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 9 Favourites
A rare bird CP 4522 started out as UP 9003 a GP40X, now rebuilt by NRE as a GP38-2 and kept her flared radiators! Her and her Canadian sister shove back an empty rail train down the Waterloo Sub after dropping rail just south of the bridge.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/05/2020
Location: Preston
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 10 Favourites
<b>Hodgepodge Of Power</b> After working Kitchener Yard, a daylight run of CN 533 heads east back to Mac Yard with a hodgepodge of power as seen crossing the grand river.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: BC Rail
Date: 03/28/2020
Location: Kitchener
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 21 Favourites
Brakeman Steve Bratina mans the switch at AOC looking onward as the conductor makes the joint on a loaded maleic acid tank car.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 03/27/2020
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
Comments | 15 Favourites
The 0800 Job heads back to the transfer after pulling 3 cars from the pole siding in Guelph. They will then head to Traxxside and Massey Rd to finish off the day before being recrewed.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 03/16/2020
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
Sweet sweet 4 axle wide cab power.. With 3,780 ft on the drawbar, CN 554 pulls out onto T2 from Oakville Yard and will eventually crossover to T3 at Kerr St to service Suncor.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 03/07/2020
Location: Oakville
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 10 Favourites
<b>Sliding right through</b> With a window of opportunity presented between the UPX trains, CN 351 rolls thru the controlled location of Wice headed for Mac Yard.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/23/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 13 Favourites
A CN detour train on Metrolinx owned track with a CP leader, this is what it's all about. CN has detoured a few trains over the CPR to get some standing traffic moving and as we see one slogging up the hill on the Weston Subdivision with 7,100 ft of train.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/23/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 18 Favourites
After working Lambton Yard for over an hour and change, Toronto to CSXT Frontier Yard train 246 is well under way trying to accelerate up to track speed with 12,000 tons of mix freight.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/16/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
<b>Uphill Struggle</b> With 12,000 tons on the drawbar, this SD70ACu is in full voice climbing Campbellville Hill straining to keep it's tonnage from stalling.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/16/2020
Location: Campbellville
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 24 Favourites
A pair of GP38's head east over the credit river bridge with 8 cars from the interchange at Streetsville.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/08/2020
Location: Streetsville
Province: Ontario
Comments | 13 Favourites
After dropping rail on the south track between Obico and Cooksville, CP 5922 West provides the horsepower for this ribbon rail train passing many rural country side homes like this one on their way to Wolverton.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 01/29/2020
Location: Puslinch
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 10 Favourites
After a crew change, the new crew on CP 119 blasts off from Kenora.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 01/13/2019
Location: Kenora
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 12 Favourites
<b>Burrrr..</b> Cold has settled in Southern Ontario, blowing snow and ominous clouds continue to roll in as another snow squall prepares to hit Hagersville. We are stopped in town for a bean, my crew are all inside the office at Hagersville having a meal as I insisted to stay with the train grabbing a few photos. GMTX 2277, my lead unit started life out as Long Island 259 before being sold off and now part of the LLPX now GMTX lease fleet, accompanying her is CN 5273 and CN 2304 providing the horsepower.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Other
Date: 12/18/2019
Location: Hagersville
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 17 Favourites
<b>A splash of colour</b> A pair of leased GMTX GP38-2's provide the power for CN 554 heading west out of Oakville.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Other
Date: 10/20/2019
Location: Oakville
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
It's the end of the shift and 555's power now sit's on the backlead at Hamilton Yard waiting for the 0600 Yard assignment to take over as another set of power idles away in the oil siding.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 11/30/2019
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 20 Favourites
Following the tail of CP 420, CP 40B rolls through Palgrave bound for Toronto and eventual layover at Richmond Hill GO Layover later on for the LPGA Women's Tour in Aurora.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/16/2019
Location: Palgrave
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 12 Favourites
We are at Mile 21 of the Minnedosa Sub as westbound 299 passes one of many grain elevators along the line.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/07/2019
Location: Westroc
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 7 Favourites
Reflection of the golden sun as far as the eye can see on G85341 14's train as they head up the Gladstone Sub outside of Portage La Prairie.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/14/2019
Location: Portage Le Prairie
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 8 Favourites
CP 9751 West has taken the light (has not yet dropped) on the advance to Gladstone Diamond following CP 299 to Minnedosa.
Name: Michael Da Costa
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/07/2019
Location: Gladstone
Province: Manitoba
2 Comments | 9 Favourites
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