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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. Reside in Kelowna, BC. I use a Nikon D850 full frame & Nikon D7200 (Nikkor 24-70mm, 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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Cartier 8273 RM-01 is a box car modified for road repair service on this remote mining railway. Equipped with all the tools and equipment needed for day or night 'away-from-shop' repairs, this car is ready to be dispatched on a moments notice.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Cartier
Date: 10/30/2007
Location: Port-Cartier
Province: Quebec
Comments | 2 Favourites
CP 5734 pulls snow covered van CP 434614 past a crew of CP, Knox Kershaw, and NAES (Canada) Ltd. employees crawling around CP 5711-32, a new KSF940 snow fighter in the hole at Rogers. Due to the amount of snow in the area, there were 2 Jordan spreaders, 2 Russell wing snow plows, and two MOW snow fighters at Rogers when this photo was taken.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/17/2011
Location: Rogers
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 6 Favourites
EMD GP38-2 CP 3084 rests in the afternoon sun outside the Revelstoke, BC car shop. The unit was only in town for a day before it was hauled away to duty. Even though it is mid-May, snow is still quite evident on the mountain slopes in the background.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/13/2002
Location: Revelstoke
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 11 Favourites
This un-numbered stationary generator car was sitting outside the car/locomotive shop tethered by a number of power cables to an out-building which housed Cartier's Cowen-Sheldon 150 ton wrecking crane No. C-4. The car was built new in 11/59. I do not know if it was purpose built as a generator or if it was modified by Cartier for the purpose.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Cartier
Date: 10/30/2007
Location: Port-Cartier
Province: Quebec
7 Comments | 6 Favourites
[editors note: accepted for rarity and remoteness of railway] Cartier's 'Hart Jaune' coach is looking splendid on this cool fall day in Port-Cartier. The sky-light window on the end of the car is an excellant way to maximize fore and aft vision while staying within Plate C clearance requirements.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Cartier
Date: 10/30/2007
Location: Port-Cartier
Province: Quebec
2 Comments | 6 Favourites
CP 5876 and a trailing 5900 series unit are moving a double ended plow train westbound through Rogers, BC. There was a Russell wing snow plow and Jordan spreader on each end of the train for bi-direction snow clearing with plenty of power.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/17/2011
Location: Rogers
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 7 Favourites
LLPX 6949 is coasting right along with a fully loaded coal train on this beautiful sunny day near Coronach, SK. Luscar Ltd. trains run on the company owned Poplar River Mine Railway and connects with CP in Coronach. Luscar Ltd. is the largest coal producer in Canada based on tonnes produced, accounting for over half of all Canadian coal production. Photo by David Wylie submitted with permission.
Name: David Wylie
Railway: Poplar River Mine …
Date: 06/08/2011
Location: Coronach
Province: Saskatchewan
2 Comments | 10 Favourites
What an interesting find on this July 23, 2008 afternoon in Churchill, MB. Somewhat imitating a VIA Rail paint scheme with its yellow & blue colours and stripes, this business car was devoid of any identification other than its AMTRAK certification No. 800576, and a stencil above the galley door reading 'Jonathan Wood Oklahoma City, Oklahoma'. Closer inspection of the car revealed it was last named 'Canadian Sunrise' which allowed me to trace it backwards as ex-NREX 'Royal Adventure', exx-CN 100 'Bonaventure', exxx-CN 90, exxxxx-CN 23. Built in 1959 it is one year shy of 50 years old. Photo taken by David Wylie and submitted with permission.
Name: David Wylie
Railway: Hudson Bay Railway
Date: 07/23/2008
Location: Churchill
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 6 Favourites
Grand Trunk Pacific business car #3410 'Nechako' is on display at the Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum in P.G., BC. This heavy weight business car was outfitted in grand style and no doubt carried a very select group of high level railroad officials in its day.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Grand Trunk
Date: 08/12/2003
Location: Prince George
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 2 Favourites
Except for the plywood on the windows and the wrapped exhaust stacks, this dead train looks like any other branchline movement. Made up of five ex-CN GMD-1 locomotives and a long string of flat and box cars, this train to nowhere sits in ONR's North Bay yard waiting for someone to come along and lease each unit for another chance at a second, or third, or fourth life.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/20/2002
Location: North Bay
Province: Ontario
Comments | 8 Favourites
Back in Black! The smell of fresh paint was everywhere on this sunny hot day at the Alberta Railway Museum. Ex-CN mechanical reefer (number unknown) was baking its new paint job as it sat in the yard surrounded by many other ex-CN pieces of equipment and power. This car was to eventually be painted in CN's 1950's olive green, black, and yellow stripe scheme.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/08/2002
Location: Edmonton
Province: Alberta
1 Comments | 5 Favourites
BCR 6401 'The Northern Star' is an American model W-150 wrecking crane s/n W-3854. It was built new in 1969 for Pacific Great Eastern Railway and shipped to them in November of that year. Powered by a Detroit Diesel 8V-71, it produced 284 h.p. @ 2100 rpm. The crane is equipped with a 40 foot boom and 5 foot jib and has a self-propelled travel speed of 2-3 mph. After CN's acquisition of BC Rail, both the crane and boom idler/cabin car were shipped to a local scrap dealer and scheduled to be destroyed but a concerted effort by the PG Railway & Forestry Museum and a few other folks saved them from the torch and they are now on display at the museum. The crane was fully operational when it was taken out of service.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: BC Rail
Date: 05/01/2002
Location: Prince George
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 7 Favourites
CN 7817 is freshly painted and nicely displayed in this 2003 photo at the Prince George, BC Railway & Forestry Museum.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/12/2003
Location: Prince George
Province: British Columbia
2 Comments | 6 Favourites
It's a sad day for CP 414401 as it sits in line at Mandak Metals Selkirk, MB facility waiting to be cut up for scrap. This American W-150 was built new in 1967 so compared to most wrecking cranes, it is meeting a very early fate at just 35 years old.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/12/2002
Location: Selkirk
Province: Manitoba
1 Comments | 5 Favourites
CN 50127 has had a nice cosmetic restoration completed and looks great sitting in the ARM yard. This 75 ton capacity wrecking crane in an Industrial Works product that was built new in 1914.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian Northern
Date: 08/08/2000
Location: Edmonton
Province: Alberta
1 Comments | 5 Favourites
NRE 400-2 ex-CN 30 ton American crane sits quietly at the NRE/ALCO repair shop in Capreol, ON. It is surrounded by a plethora of motive power and car equipment waiting for repair and/or resale.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Other
Date: 06/12/2003
Location: Capreol
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 5 Favourites
The only thing that does have a coat of rust on ONR 1600 is the brand new trainline air hose that was just installed. It may look like crap but it was purring like a kitten and ready for its next assignment.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 05/04/2004
Location: North Bay
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 3 Favourites
BCR 611 sits on the deadline with a number of siblings on this sunny and warm October afternoon. Fours years into CN's ownership of the provincial railroad and there was still lots of red white and blue power around.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: BC Rail
Date: 10/22/2007
Location: Prince George
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 4 Favourites
This view of BC Rails catenary inspection van 993804 allows us to look up through the observation windows in the cupola. I sure hope the seat backs reclined, otherwise one would have an awful stiff neck at the end of the run.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: BC Rail
Date: 05/01/2002
Location: Prince George
Province: British Columbia
Comments | 4 Favourites
This ex-BC Rail van has been brought to CN's Transcona Engineering complex for possible future use with Engineering work trains. It sat amongst a variety of surplus BC Rail, IC and CN equipment at the Work Equipment Repair Facility compound waiting for a determination from a higher authority.
Name: Paul O'Shell
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 9/27/2007
Location: Transcona (Winnipe…
Province: Manitoba
Comments | 4 Favourites
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