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Started my railroad career at CN in July 1969 and retired from the industry 49 years later on March 1, 2018. My area of expertise was railway Work Equipment. Currently reside in Binbrook, ON. I use a Nikon D850, Nikon D7200 (Nikkor Gold Ring 24-120mm, 35mm, 18-140mm, 55-300mm, & 80-400mm) and scan with an Epson V550. Enjoy my contributions. Be safe. Lots more of my photos at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/197431498@N07/albums

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<b> Won't be long before it looks like this outside. </b> <br> Winter will be here before we know it and scenes like this will be plentiful. <br> Looking north, the well maintained exterior of the VIA/KRC station at The Pas, MB shows off its winter coat on a sunny, crisp, and clear March 16, 2023.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 03/16/2023
Location: The Pas
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 16 Favourites
<b> Trains and grains. </b> <br> CN 2788 ES44AC with a yard long string of grain hoppers sits idle in front of the Kamloops North VIA Rail station at Kamloops, BC on a very pleasant October 26, 2023 morning.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/26/2023
Location: Kamloops
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 11 Favourites
<b> CN Margo, Assiniboine & Togo </b> <br> Three CN subdivisions converge here at Canora, SK. <br> CN 3244 rests on the loco track while VIA 692 The Hudson Bay makes its scheduled stop at Canora, SK Mile 0.0 Assiniboine Sub. on September 30, 2023. <br> Stainless Steel Budd built passenger cars VIA 8511 Skyline, and VIA 8202 Chateau Bienville sleeper are the last two of five cars and two locomotives on today's VIA 692 headed to Winnipeg, MB.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/30/2023
Location: Canora
Province: Saskatchewan
4 Comments | 13 Favourites
<b> BCOL 1879 </b> <br> BCOL 1879 is a long way from home at the CN Work Equipment Repair Facility yard in Transcona, MB. At this point in its life, it has been relegated to Engineering work train service. <br>
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: BC Rail
Date: 09/25/2007
Location: Winnipeg (Transcon…
Province: Manitoba
1 Comments | 13 Favourites
<b> VIA 693 The Hudson Bay in Churchill, MB. </b> <br> Arriving earlier in the day at 09:30, VIA 693's consist gets cleaned, serviced, fueled, and otherwise prepared for its south bound return journey as VIA 692 at 19:30 this same evening. <br> Looks like a high load of baggage or some other piece of equipment has knocked the station name sign from the north corner of the building overhang. <br> The station track has been completely rebuilt since my visit there in August of 2022. New ties, rail, ballast and surfacing has made quite a difference. :-) <br> What a great place to visit!!!
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 09/28/2023
Location: Churchill
Province: Manitoba
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
<b> It's 18:00 in the The Pas, MB with overcast skies and a little fire smoke in the air. </b> <br> VIA 692's consist with VIA 6441 and VIA 6451 is idling away on Fence Track PZ89 at Mile 0.0 HBR Wekusko Sub., Mile 4.7 The Pas Terminal Sub. <br> It will be another 9 hours before there is any activity in this scene which will be just prior to the 03:15 scheduled departure of 692 southbound. It was a very pleasant 19C on this September 29, 2023 early evening.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 09/29/2023
Location: The Pas
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 11 Favourites
<b> Well, look what just rolled into town! </b> <br> Keewatin Railway Company KRC 290 The Pukatawagan Mixed has just arrived at The Pas, MB with PRLX 2269 and PRLX 2265 in charge. <br> Tonight's 'Puk' has all four of KRC's ex-VIA, exx-CN NSC and CC&F built passenger cars in tow, along with two boxcars, a flat car, and two bulkhead flats. <br> The diesel generator in the baggage car is running to provide lighting in the coaches, as evidenced by the plume of exhaust smoke drifting over the station. No need for the furnace to be on as it was 19C in The Pas on this beautiful September 29, 2023 fall day. <br> In a few minutes, after all the passengers have detrained and the baggage has been off-loaded, the four passenger cars will be pulled ahead then shoved back into VIA Storage Track PZ70 to the left of the station platform. <br> All of this taking place in 2023!!! :-)
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Keewatin Railway
Date: 09/29/2023
Location: The Pas
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 10 Favourites
Northbound VIA 693 The Hudson Bay rests on the station platform track during the scheduled 5-hour stop at Thompson, MB Mile 30.5 HBR Thompson Sub. on September 27, 2023. <br> The yard at Thompson was quite active today with GREX 2400 Dump Train waiting to depart, a pair of locos making up the next days way freight, and flatcars on the ramp track being loaded with 53' highway trailers by Arctic Gateway Freight Services. <br> It was a wonderfully warm day in Thompson so I took advantage of it and got my steps in around the station and yard. :-)
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 09/27/2023
Location: Thompson
Province: Manitoba
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
VIA 693 The Hudson Bay backed into Churchill, MB at 09:30 on this fabulous fall morning of September 28, 2023. By 11:00 all passengers had detrained and baggage had been off-loaded leaving the station platform empty except for a few bags of trash and used sleeping car linens. <br> The grain silos and elevator sit dormant in the background, but, substantial trackwork including ties, rail, and fresh heavily dumped ballast on several yard tracks and the two leads going to the once busy dumper tracks suggest there may be some new business anticipated in Churchill. <br> It was so nice to make the journey from Winnipeg to Churchill and return without the annoying 'buffer car' tacked on to the tail end of the train. :-)
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 09/28/2023
Location: Churchill
Province: Manitoba
2 Comments | 12 Favourites
LMIX 611 Loram 2-unit rail grinder basks in the warm morning sun at CP Agincourt Yard September 20, 2016.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Loram
Date: 09/20/2016
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
<b> VIA blue and VIA stainless steel </b> <br> KRC 290 The Pukatawagan Mixed had pulled into The Pas about 20 minutes before this shot. Passengers and baggage were swiftly unloaded and the blue ex-VIA, exx-CN passenger cars were shoved into VIA storage track PZ70 to wait for the next trip north. <brt> Meanwhile, VIA 692 The Hudson Bay with its Budd stainless steel consist idles away on Fence Track PZ89 across from the beautiful station building waiting to depart southbound in about 8 hours at 02:30. <br> I heard a rumour while in The Pas that KRC might be acquiring some ex-Amtrak double deck passenger equipment to replace the very aged blue passenger fleet currently in service. I'll believe that when I see it!!
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 09/29/2023
Location: The Pas
Province: Manitoba
4 Comments | 13 Favourites
<b> The Puk in The Pas </b> <br>Another trip to Churchill and The Pas this past week sure provided a lot of eye candy (from a railway point of view that is) <br>KRC 290 The Pukatawagan Mixed has just pulled into The Pas, MB a few minutes before the final good light of the day would be gone. I had to run from further down in the yard after I heard the horn blowing for the crossing just north of the station, and worked up a sweat as it was 19C in The Pas on this beautiful September 29, 2023 late afternoon! :-)
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Keewatin Railway
Date: 09/29/2023
Location: The Pas
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 14 Favourites
VIA 693 The Hudson Bay is parked on the station track in front of the brightly painted Thompson, MB station on this beautiful March 13, 2023 day. <br> Two days later on the return trip from Churchill, the weather would be completely different with over a foot of fresh snow, and the drift at the end of the station as high as the VIA Rail Canada sign!
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 03/13/2023
Location: Thompson
Province: Manitoba
3 Comments | 9 Favourites
Only two of the four ex-VIA, exx-CN passenger cars were required on yesterday's KRC 291 Pukatawagan Mixed so KRC 3248 & KRC 5648 remain on VIA Storage Track PZ71 at the south end of the station on this wonderfully clear but cold March 17, 2023 morning in The Pas, MB.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Keewatin Railway
Date: 03/17/2023
Location: The Pas
Province: Manitoba
2 Comments | 11 Favourites
NWAX 606435 (ex-CP 606435) and five other NSC 1982 built grain hoppers sit on track PZ63 at The Pas, MB on a bitterly cold March 16, 2023. These cars being unloaded in The Pas were still doing what they were built for 41 years earlier. <br> NWAX reporting marks are for National Wax (BP Global Special Products)
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Other
Date: 03/16/2023
Location: The Pas
Province: Manitoba
2 Comments | 12 Favourites
As viewed from F1 Road that runs through the middle of the yard, a gaggle of CP locomotives is gathered just outside the diesel shop at CP Agincourt Yard on September 20, 2016. A splash of blue breaks up the otherwise CP red dominance. Quite the variety of paint schemes and CP logos to see here.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/20/2016
Location: Agincourt
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
Taken six years ago, a quartet of CP units sit idle at the base of the CP Administration building in Agincourt Yard on this beautiful mid-September day. Oh, the changes that have taken place in this yard since I started going there in 1990.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/20/2016
Location: Agincourt
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 13 Favourites
HBRY 6005 SD60M (ex-UP) sits sandwiched between HBRY 6004 & HBRY 5005 at HBR's The Pas, MB diesel shop yard on a sunny but bitterly cold March 16, 2023.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Hudson Bay Railway
Date: 03/16/2023
Location: The Pas
Province: Manitoba
4 Comments | 11 Favourites
In the absence of modern wayside electronic axle/bearing heat sensors on portions of the Hudson Bay Railway line, VIA trains on the trip to Churchill have to stop periodically for a roll-by manual laser temperature reading of each axle end bearing. <br> VIA 690 is getting checked out by the second engineer at HBR Pikwitonei, MB Mile 214 Thicket Sub. during my southbound trip to The Pas, MB on March 15, 2023. <br> Oh, the sights you get to see on this trip from Winnipeg to Churchill and return. :-)
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 03/15/2023
Location: Pikwitonei
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 11 Favourites
VIA 185 with three Budd RDC's has come to a stop at the station in Cartier, ON and the step box is on the platform at the vestibule steps of VIA 6119 waiting for those interested in detraining or those wanting to board the iconic train to its destination in White River, ON.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 07/27/2023
Location: Cartier
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 13 Favourites
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