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CN train 535 ("the South" roadswitcher) crosses the Grand River in Caledonia behind a pair of SW1200Rs units, the usual power in the 1970s. This train would travel up Hamilton's Ferguson Avenue twice per day until the 1980s when service was re-routed through Brantford.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/14/1977
Location:	Caledonia
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 19 Favourites

CN 5580, 9105, and 5568 at rest in Brandon in 1984. The 9105 was built as the 9056, and was the second last F7Au remanufactured in 1974. Twenty years later she was converted to this "B unit" configuration, remaining in service until 1989. The GP38-2Ws would be renumbered to the 4700-series in 1988 to free up the 5500s for new SD60Fs.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/04/1984
Location:	Brandon
Province:	Manitoba

3 Comments | 13 Favourites

A stop in Brandon in May 1984 turned up a couple of CN F7Au units, uncoupled. This gave the opportunity for a rear "detail" shot of the 9156. Built as the 9060, she was remanufactured at Transcona in 1972 and retired in 1989.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	5/13/1984
Location:	Brandon
Province:	Manitoba

1 Comments | 12 Favourites

Year-old GP38-2 3034 and 20-year old GP35 5006 idle on the shop track in Brandon with S4 7116 and GP9 8535 (both veterans with about 30 years of service). The 3034 was one of 20 delivered in 1983 with another 95 to be delivered over the next two years for secondary and grain service. CP's GP35s and the two GP30s were also used around Manitoba in that service in the early-mid 1980s.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	5/13/1984
Location:	Brandon
Province:	Manitoba

Comments | 11 Favourites

Years ago, I almost felt like a member of the OPP--patrolling the 401 between Montreal and Toronto! Belleville was always the mid-way stop for reasons most railfans will understand. On one of those routine trips, we came across this interesting lash-up at the roundhouse. By this time the M420Ws were generally in secondary and road switcher service and F7s were being retired.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/11/1988
Location:	Belleville
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

While SD40s/-2s may have dominated the mainlines, MLWs handled yard work across the CP system well into the 1980s. Here we have S4 7116 working the yard in Brandon on a summer evening almost 40 years ago. Soon rebuilt GP9s will take over--they're already working many assignments in Winnipeg...

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	8/3/1984
Location:	Brandon
Province:	Manitoba

1 Comments | 17 Favourites

This westbound certainly generated a frantic stop. We were driving east from Spences Bridge towards "the fruit stand" when this westbound came around the bend with CN 3913 (a former CREX unit) and BC Rail heritage unit 3115! All's well that ends well--we got set up in time with this result.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/02/2022
Location:	Spences Bridge
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 14 Favourites

Having sat at the top of the hill near Georgetown for four eastbounds, CN 397 is finally on the move with an interesting consist of CN SD70M2 8023, UP SD70M 4063, and BNSF ES44AC 6192. The BNSF unit was the leader on yesterday's 396 with the UP unit in fourth position. En route, they met another BNSF leader and will soon meet 148 with an NS unit trailing. While not the "FPON" days of years gone by, we're still getting some interesting consists in 2022!

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	25/6/2022
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 9 Favourites

August the 1st, beginning of a new crop year...and both CN and CP are moving grain empties west for reloading. In the foreground, a pair of SD40s (5168 and 5172) have a colourful consist of government-owned cover hoppers in tow as they approach West Tower where CN's Rivers and Gladstone subs cross the CP Carberry sub 0.8 miles to the west. In the background, a similar CP train behind SD40-2 5723 and GP35 5021 waits its turn at the diamond. (Photo taken from the Provincial Road 240 bridge.)

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	8/1/1987
Location:	Portage la Prairie
Province:	Manitoba

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

I never tired of shooting VIA's passenger trains in downtown Winnipeg, especially when they were graced by CN's classy F7Au locomotives. Here we have the 9151 and an unrecorded sister (with an SGU) pausing on the bridge over the Assiniboine River before backing into the station to couple to their train. For a more recent view of the same location, see image 48728 (http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=48728).

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	9/28/1980
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

GMD-1s 1008 and 1050 lead an eastbound away from Portage la Prairie and towards Winnipeg's Symington Yard. By this time, branch lines requiring light weight power were becoming fewer and fewer as the Prairie Branch Line Rehabilitation Program (implementing the recommendations of the 1977 Hall Commission on Grain Handling and Transportation for branch line rationalization) was well under way. In a few days, on August 1st, the Western Grain Transportation Act will take effect, effectively abolishing "the Crow" rate and ramping up changes to the handling of Canadian grain. At the time of the photo, CN had already converted 12 GMD-1s to B-B trucks and would eventually convert 46 of 83 A1a-A1A units (including the 1050 and former NAR GMD-1s) to that configuration. Lead unit 1008 would be re-manufactured as the 1602 in 1988 and re-trucked to B-B unit 1432 in 1999.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	7/28/1984
Location:	Portage
Province:	Manitoba

Comments | 18 Favourites

With a summer sized consist, VIA train 92 behind leased CN units nears its final destination of Winnipeg Union Station. Although a GP9 would occasionally substitute, a pair of F7Au locomotives were standard power on this tri-weekly train along with a steam generator unit from roughly 1972 until spring 1984. (I've been told that GMD-1s powered the train before that.) According to VIA Rail 1981 consist information in my collection, the summer train (June-September) ran with a baggage/crew sleeper, an unreserved coach, a cafe-coach-lounge, another coach, a diner, a 4-8-4 sleeper, a 10-5 sleeper, and a "Cape" lounge. The normal "winter" consist had a two "steam gennies", a 9600 series baggage car, the two coaches, a diner-lounge, and one sleeper. Note also the three refrigerator cars returning to Winnipeg after carrying groceries to northern Manitoba communities and a former CP diner substituting for the normal former CN car.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	7/12/1980
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

Comments | 19 Favourites

Ten miles to go! VIA train No. 92 is about to cross under the Perimeter Highway as it enters the City of Winnipeg, passing the elevator which was located at mile 10.9 of the Rivers sub. After years of running with CN F7Au locomotives, VIA stopped using leased CN engines on this train and replaced them with remanufactured FP9ARM units in the spring of 1984.Units 6300-6304 were not equipped with steam generators, lightening them to 247,000 lbs (rather than the 260,000 lbs of units 6305-6314). VIA 6302 (former VIA/CN 6533) and 6304 (ex-6509) are "back-to-back", unlike later years when the units ran "elephant style".

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	7/30/1987
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

3 Comments | 16 Favourites

Less than 4 hours after arriving, VIA Rail has turned and serviced the equipment and train 693 begins its almost 2 day journey back to Churchill (about 3 hours late). Today's train is powered by F40PH-2D units 6457 and 6441, with baggage car 8601, coaches 8123, 8124, and 8104, Skyline 8506 and sleeper Chateau Marquette. (The train is crossing the Assiniboine River, immediately south of the station (timetable West)--photo taken from the Main Street bridge.(

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	8/17/2021
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

Comments | 5 Favourites

CN 554 backs across the Chartwell Road crossing while doubling its train prior to departure with 20 cars of general freight and 47 autoracks. Power today is GTW GP40-2 6420 (originally a DT&I unit) and CN GP38-2 4906 (the former GMTX 2273, previously LLPX 2244, originally built for the Long Island Railroad in 1976 as its 264).
CN 554 is normally ordered for 12:00 noon and typically departs about 90 minutes later.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	5/7/2022
Location:	Oakville
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

Normally assigned to passenger trains to Thompson and/or Churchill, today two of the F7Au locomotives based in Winnipeg have drawn a work train assignment, probably for the Prairie Branchline Rehabilitation program that was going on at the time (note the side-dump cars). On their way back to Symington, these units are passing the VIA station and CN's Prairie Region offices. In the background, you can see buildings from the East Yard which at one time hosted extensive team track and express facilities and still had VIA's coach in the early 1980s. Today, the area east of the Station is The Forks market.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	7/31/1981
Location:	Winnipeg
Province:	Manitoba

2 Comments | 17 Favourites

When I lived in Winnipeg, a favourite train-watching activity was to follow CN's Emerson turn south to the interchange with Burlington Northern and Soo Line in Noyes, Minnesota. Provincial highway 75 closely follows the Letellier sub and train speeds allowed one to get several photos in each direction. Normally, you could also catch CP's train interchanging with the BN and SOO (in the era before CP took over the SOO) and until about 1983, Burlington Northern Manitoba would also run their own train--five trains from five railroads for an hour our so in the village of Noyes!

This is the last shot of the day from one of those trips--GMD1s 1028 and 1054 bringing 16 cars and the van home...almost 40 years ago, now.

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	3/27/1983
Location:	Ste. Agathe
Province:	Manitoba

3 Comments | 16 Favourites

Today, the CN train interchanging with the New England Central at St. Albans, Vermont runs with CN power (or whatever is around Taschereau Yard). But for a few years after the Central Vermont was sold, CN provided the crews and NECR provided the power for the Montreal-St. Albans turn. Here we see NECR 6526 (former CSX/B&O GP40), 9530 and 9539 (former IC/GM&O GP38s) leading the train through St-Lambert on a warm August evening. Hard to believe that almost 25 years have passed since this shot was taken...

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	8/8/1997
Location:	St-Lambert
Province:	Quebec

4 Comments | 14 Favourites

"Steeltown". "The Hammer". For railroaders, these names bring to mind heavy, slow drags with cars of steel (gondolas, coil cars, flats) and other industrial cargo. Here we see 0800 Hamilton Yard assignment heading towards "the hole" (N&NW spur) with a sizable number of gons. Yesterday when I saw this job, they returned to Stuart Street with something like 40 cars and 5600 tons--no wonder they use two or three unit sets of old road power such as GP38-2 4705 (ex 5505)and 7241 (rebuilt for yard service from GP9 4311)! To see the same location in 1975, http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47735 .

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1/16/2022
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

8 Comments | 14 Favourites

With class unit 7000 on the point, a yard assignment moves along the North Track of the Grimsby sub headed into "the hole" to serve industrial customers. At the time, most yard engines in Hamilton were MLW S4s supplemented by a couple of GM units assigned to "out posts" such as Brantford and Oakville. By the mid-1980s, SW9 and SW1200 locomotives would hold down most assignments (and SW1200RS units into the mid-1990s).

Name:	John Eull
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	12/11/1975
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

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