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Originally from Mississauga, I have lived in Barrie for the past six years. I've managed to photograph trains throughout a good portion of Ontario and, as of late, have been especially interested in shooting trains in Northern Ontario. As of now my equipment includes a Canon DSLR and a few different lenses.

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A lone SD75I powers train 308 through Ramore, Ontario on a nice November afternoon. The white building to the left was once the train station, it has since been repurposed as the town's fire hall and is currently being used by the volunteer fire service. Unfortunately, the building seems to have a bleak future - a January 16 report recommends that the building be demolished (and a new fire hall be built) due to numerous issues (structural/health and safety) with the building.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 11/22/2018
Location: Ramore
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
2102 and 2103 have just departed the yard in Englehart on their 138 mile journey to North Bay. They are seen here with train 214 crossing the Englehart River.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 11/22/2018
Location: Englehart
Province: Ontario
Comments | 9 Favourites
2200 leads the tri-weekly train from Hearst into Kapuskasing. It is pictured here on the western outskirts of Kapuskasing beside the town's airstrip.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 10/04/2016
Location: Kapuskasing
Province: Ontario
Comments | 9 Favourites
Train 308 passes through the rock cut near Boston Creek as it makes its way back to Englehart on a lovely autumn afternoon.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 10/01/2015
Location: Boston Creek
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 18 Favourites
On a sunny June morning, the BCRY crew has coupled the power to two hoppers and is about to depart the yard at Utopia and head to Barrie for the day. In the background a northbound Canadian Pacific intermodal train is silently crossing the diamond.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Cando
Date: 06/14/2018
Location: Utopia
Province: Ontario
Comments | 9 Favourites
RLK 4095, GEXR 3030 and two hoppers are crawling along the bumpy Exeter Sub towards Hensall.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 05/16/2018
Location: Hensall
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 8 Favourites
CCGX 4015 slowly crosses Broadway with four cars in tow prior to backing down a spur to service the PolyOne facility.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Orangeville-Brampt…
Date: 05/01/2018
Location: Orangeville
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 12 Favourites
On a beautiful Wednesday morning, I followed the Tillsonburg Job down from Ingersoll. I was quite happy to find 1400 on point as I hadn't had much luck shooting it leading in the past. Not that you can go wrong with any of the power that the OSR fields, their collection of vintage locomotives can't be matched. A classy organization from the management to the guys operating the trains, I never get tired of visiting.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 03/20/2018
Location: Tillsonburg
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
ONT 2104 is working solo today as it pushes back a long cut of tank cars into Glencore's Horne Smelter complex. The cars are headed over to the acid plant where they will be filled with sulphuric acid that is produced during the copper smelting process. To the right is the old Noranda station, built circa 1925.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 10/02/2017
Location: Rouyn-Noranda
Province: Quebec
Comments | 8 Favourites
With the sun quickly setting, 1733 and 1730 pass through Arntfield (part of Rouyn-Noranda since 2002) on their way back to Ontario. Interestingly, this line between Swastika, ON and Rouyn-Noranda, QC is, on paper, operated as the Nipissing Central Railway (NCR). The NCR was provincially chartered in 1902 as an interurban streetcar system that connected several communities in Northern Ontario. With the towns growing, the railway was granted a federal charter five years later and then, in 1911, the provincially chartered Temiskaming and Northern Ontario (T&NO - the predecessor to the Ontario Northland Railway) purchased the NCR. So when the T&NO built the line between Swastika and Rouyn-Noranda, it was operated under the federally chartered NCR to avoid any complications that could be associated with crossing between two provinces.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 10/01/2017
Location: Arntfield
Province: Quebec
Comments | 7 Favourites
With 31 loaded gondolas of copper sulphide ore, 2102 slowly pulls out of Kidd Yard to begin the 104 mile journey to Englehart.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 10/01/2017
Location: Hoyle
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
Two ET44ACs bring train 332 into the yard at Foleyet where it will double over and allow a procession of three northbounds to race through. This was a fairly busy day in Foleyet, I saw a total of 10 trains over 8 hours!
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/30/2017
Location: Foleyet
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
After spending the day working in Port Colborne and south Welland, 1859 pulls 25 cars through WH Yard and on towards Feeder Yard where the cars will be dropped off.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Trillium Railway
Date: 09/25/2017
Location: Welland
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 11 Favourites
CP 2270 leads CP 3119, CP 2276 and 28 cars across the swing bridge and over the Trent-Severn Waterway in Peterborough.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/22/2017
Location: Peterborough
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
T06 has almost completed the journey from the mines at Nephton and Blue Mountain and will soon arrive at the yard in Havelock with 21 hoppers loaded with nepheline syenite. The 20 mile Nephton Sub was built in 1954 to provide a rail connection between the mines and CP's mainline at Havelock.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/22/2017
Location: Havelock
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 6 Favourites
While coming home from work I ran across the BCRY as they were heading into Barrie, pushing one hopper for TAG Environmental and pulling a couple of old flatcars. After dropping off the hopper they travelled down the Molson Spur and deposited the two flatcars at the location of the old brewery. I grabbed a shot of 1001 as she ran light back to the Beeton Spur.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Cando
Date: 08/31/2017
Location: Barrie
Province: Ontario
13 Comments | 17 Favourites
The crew of 581 is in the process of backing up their train to clear King St after which they will tie down and go for lunch. Once their break is done, they will head south to the end of the line in Exeter and drop off a handful of boxcars and hoppers.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 03/22/2017
Location: Hensall
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 11 Favourites
OSR's ex-SOO GP7s are just about to duck under the 401 overpass on their way to St Thomas after completing work in the Ingersoll/Putnam area. A sunny morning + classic power = another great day of railfanning the OSR.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 22/03/2017
Location: Putnam
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
The crews from the Englhart yard job and recently arrived 113 chat about the unique aspects of northern railroading during the winter. The temperature on this crisp morning felt like -35 degrees Celcius.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 03/04/2017
Location: Englehart
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 16 Favourites
ONT 1735 SD40-2, ONT 2101 SD75I and ONT 2103 SD75I lead train 214 through mile 93 of the Temagami Subdivison at Latchford, ON. The train has just crossed the bridge over the Montreal River and is quickly moving towards its destination of North Bay.
Name: Craig Allen
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 03/04/2017
Location: Latchford
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
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