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I was born and raised in Capreol, Ontario. I worked for CN in the Area Engineering Office during the summers of 1965 and 1966. During the summers of 1967-1969, I worked as a brakeman out of Capreol. In the fall of 1969, I transferred to the Great Lakes Regional offices in Toronto. I left CN in 1975 to join the transportation department of Ontario Hydro. I moved to the USA in 1989. I am still an active photographer.

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A beautiful pair of CP F units, 4063 and 4435, wait their next assignment at Agincourt Yard, Toronto, Ontario on May 21, 1977.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/21/1977
Location: Agincourt
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 18 Favourites
A mile or so north of the Maple station, VIA's Super Continental train 3 roars north with a 16 car consist behind former CN units 6501-6633-6509.
Name: First954
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 08/12/1979
Location: Maple
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
A single SD40, 5081, leads southbound train 474 out of Capreol on May 22, 1969. The train has a cut of empty tank cars for South Parry on the headend.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/22/1969
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 11 Favourites
CN GP38-2, 5513, leads a short transfer job back to Toronto Yard on July 15, 1976.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/15/1976
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 17 Favourites
In a not photoshopped photo, a northbound CP freight with 5725 leading ducks under a westbound CN freight at CN Humber on April 28, 1984.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/28/1984
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 21 Favourites
An unknown general freight pulls out of Capreol yard heading for the Bala Sub and MacMillan Yard. Power for the train was the 2333, 2595, and 2158.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/12/2015
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
Comments | 6 Favourites
CN SD70M-2 8906 has changed crews in front of the Capreol Yard Office and begins its run to BIT in suburban Toronto on one of CN's many intermodal trains. Sister 8880 is working as the mid train DPU.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/13/2015
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
TH&B GP7 number 76 rests at CP's Agincourt Yard Toronto, Ontario between runs. The unit was built by General Motors in London, Ontario in June 1953 with S/N A514.
Name: First954
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 03/09/1975
Location: Agincourt
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 20 Favourites
Shop staff at Ontario Northland's North Bay, Ontario facility, shuffle units around. ONT 1401 is an RS-10 built by MLW in December 1955 with S/N 81482.
Name: First954
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 05/18/1970
Location: North Bay
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 17 Favourites
Ontario Northland 1202 builds a train in their North Bay, Ontario yard on September 1st, 1969. The unit was built by ALCO in June 1946 S/N 74481.
Name: First954
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 09/01/1969
Location: North Bay
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
CN SD40 5016 rests on the shop track in Capreol, Ontario on July 29, 1972. The unit, class GF30d, was built by GMDD in 1967.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/29/1972
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 15 Favourites
VIA train 83 crosses over from the north track to the south track for its station stop at Burlington West, ON. That's the CN 1325 switching on the right. VIA 6769 is an FPA-4 built as CN 6769 by MLW in 1959.
Name: First954
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 02/13/1982
Location: Burlington West
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 21 Favourites
NINE ON NINE!!! The Toronto Section of the Canadian heads west along CN's York Sub as it begins its long voyage to Vancouver. Power for the train is the 6426 and 6628.
Name: First954
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 05/00/1989
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 17 Favourites
VIA's westbound Canadian, train 9, slows after crossing the diamond at Snider. The train will pull past my location, back around the connecting track on the right to the Newmarket Sub before it finally heads north. The new F40s were just beginning to make their appearance. Hard to believe they are still pulling the Canadian more than 35 years after this photo was taken.
Name: First954
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 04/00/1987
Location: Snider
Province: Ontario
Comments | 13 Favourites
On an overcast and otherwise crappy March day in Toronto, the Toronto section of the Canadian, train 9, heads west on CN's York Subdivision just east of Yonge Street. Power is an A-B combination of former CN units, 6502 and 66xx, for the 6 car train.
Name: First954
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 03/00/1986
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
A trio of SD40s lead an eastbound freight a couple of miles out of Sudbury Ontario on August 3, 1987. CP 5501 and 5553 lead leased SD40 HLCX 5076 which began life as MP 776, then to GATX 5076 and finally to HLCX 5076.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/03/1987
Location: Sudbury
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 13 Favourites
CN train 218 with 9573 leading has dropped off its head end cars into MacMillan Yard, backed out on to the York Sub and is now heading west with the "pigs" for the Brampton Intermodal Terminal. The 9555 on the left is actually the trailing unit of a consist that has just dropped off its train on the north connecting track to the Newmarket Sub siding at Snider and is returning to retrieve its caboose before heading to MacMillan Yard. The comments on my earlier post got me to think of this image. Thanks everyone.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/00/1987
Location: Snider
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 19 Favourites
On a crappy smoggy spring day in Toronto, a drag of ore cars drifts downgrade on CN's York Sub and under the Yonge Street bridge. Brake shoe smoke is quite evident as the train slows for the 15 mph turnouts and curve at Doncaster as it will head north on the Bala Sub to Sudbury for more slag. Power for the train was a matched set of GP40-2(W)s 9461, 9460, and an unknown third 9400.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/00/1986
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 16 Favourites
CN Road Repair Car 52302 still looks good more than a year after being rebuilt from a 40' box car.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/05/1971
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
CN train 97, a Friday only and summer only, Toronto to North Bay train is powered by FPA-2u 6758. CN 6758 was delivered by MLW in 1955 as FPA-2 6711 and later renumbered to 6755. It was subsequently rebuilt by CN to 1800 hp and renumbered again to 6758. Train 97 was always interesting as you never knew what was going to show up on it.
Name: First954
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/24/1977
Location: Richmond Hill
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 17 Favourites
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