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About Paul O'Shell

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 D7200 (Nikkor 35mm, 18-140mm, 55-300mm, & 80-400mm) and scan with an Epson V550. Enjoy my contributions. Be safe.

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Since it's starting to get a little warm outside (at least in the Hamilton/Niagara region) I thought I'd offer up a little cold and snow photo to remember the winter we just left behind. <br>
Empty flatcar, empty yard, empty grain elevator, empty passenger train! <br>
Arriving as VIA 693 'The Hudson Bay' earlier in the day at 09:00, the consist sits idling in front of the Churchill, MB station. All passengers have detrained, and the last few shuttle vehicles remain gather on the platform to collect the last baggage for delivery to various lodging locations around the town. <br>
In a few short hours at 19:30, this consist will become VIA 690 and will begin its southward journey to The Pas, MB. <br>
In the meantime, I have 9+ hours to walk around the town and railyard looking for some interesting images to capture.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	03/14/2023
Location:	Churchill
Province:	Manitoba

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Stenciled as NBSR 6942, this ex-CSX GP40-2 sits in line with other foreign power outside the diesel shop in the ONR yard in North Bay, ON April 13, 2023.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	New Brunswick Sout…
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

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RS 67 is far from home rails as she receives some mechanical attention inside the ONR diesel shop in North Bay, ON on April 13, 2023. Sitting on one of the elevated service tracks, RS 67 is keeping CN 3273 on the next track company during her visit to Ontario.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Roberval Saguenay
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

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It has been a number of years since ONT 503 last worked a derailment on the ONR. It now sits dead on a yard track outside the ONR shops in North Bay seemingly waiting for its next call that will never come. <br>
ONT 503 is an Industrial Works 160 ton wrecker, serial number 3980, built in 1919. I think she looks pretty darn good for 104 years old! :-)

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 14 Favourites

Three different railways are represented in this photo at The Pas, MB. on this blistering cold March 16, 2023 morning. <BR>
At the left of the frame is VIA Rail's #691 consist of stainless steel Budd built passenger equipment waiting to return to Churchill, on the main in front of the station is KRC's (Keewatin Railway Co.) #291 The Pukatawagan Mixed with classic ex-VIA, exx-CN baggage car and coach loading up with passengers, baggage, and supplies, and, the red brick building to the right is HBR's (Hudson Bay Railway) Maintenance building at 313 Hazelwood Ave. The Pas. <br>
The only remnants identifying this location as a former Canadian National northern Manitoba hub are three old zebra striped locomotives (renumbered for HBR) sitting stored out of sight in the distant yard near the roundhouse/diesel shop facility.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Keewatin Railway
Date:	03/16/2023
Location:	The Pas
Province:	Manitoba

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Can I get a lift? <br>
Sister cars GOT 2101 & GOT 2102 got the lift and support necessary for undercarriage work to be completed during overhaul at the ONR shops in North Bay, ON. The car shop building was full to the brim with a number of GO Transit coaches and cab cars going through the rebuild program on this nice spring April 13, 2023 morning. <BR>
The car shop, diesel shop, and yard were all full of nice surprises as I walked around the facilities on my guided tour this day. More photos to come. :-)

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

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HBRY 5005 EMD SD50 (ex-UP 9835, exx-UP 5002, nee-MP 5002) sits sandwiched between two of the Hudson Bay Railways newest locomotives HBRY 6005 and HBRY 6001 in the diesel shop yard in The Pas, MB on this extremely cold March 16 morning.<br>
A number of old and new units were scattered throughout the yard and it was quite obvious they hadn't seen service in some time.<br>
I also caught HBRY 5005 in Thompson, MB on August 1, 2022. <br>
<b> http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=49668

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Hudson Bay Railway
Date:	03/16/2023
Location:	The Pas
Province:	Manitoba

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On April 13, 2023, the next rebuild about to exit the ONR shops in North Bay is GOT 207. This fully rebuilt cab car was getting some final touches put to it prior to being rolled out into the test area. There was plenty of action inside and out at the ONR shop complex during my mid-April visit.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 14 Favourites

2-8-0 T&NO 503 sits on a track panel at the end of a public parking lot just south of the former Canadian Pacific station (now North Bay Museum) on this nice, warm, cloudless, sunny April afternoon. There's a little graffiti on the tender, but the real damage is in the now sealed with steel plating cab area. I understand there was some arson vandalism a number of weeks ago prompting the new protection on the cab window and door openings. <br>
503 sits just a few meters from the fenced compound that houses the last two remaining pieces of ONR Tee-Train equipment. <br>
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51749

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	04/12/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

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HLCX 3840 (ex-CR 8281) EMD GP38-2 built June 1979, makes a reverse move back to the yard after tacking a couple of bulkhead flats onto the rear of KRC 291 The Pukatawagan Mixed that is sitting on the main at The Pas, MB station on this rather cold but sunny March 16, 2023. <br>
VIA 691's buffer car blocks 'The Puk' from view, but the two ex-VIA passenger cars that didn't go out on 'The Mixed' this day are seen on a stub track at the south end of the station.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Hudson Bay Railway
Date:	03/16/2023
Location:	The Pas
Province:	Manitoba

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GMTX 2187 GP38-2 (ex-LLPX 2332, exx-GMTX 2187, exxx-CR 8022, exxxx-EMDX 822, nee-PC 8022) is getting a little TLC inside the ONR diesel shop at North Bay, ON April 13, 2023. <br>
GMTX 2187 was one of many locomotives inside the shop during my tour of the facility, with many more waiting their turn outside.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

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ONT 1810 GP38-3 (ex-NS) sits outside the ONR diesel shop in North Bay, ON on the morning of April 13, 2023. ONT 1810 is coupled to three other ex-NS units, all patched with new ONT numbers (ONT 2203, ONT 2122, ONT 2124).<br>
The quartet of ex-NS units are all waiting their turn to get inside for some service, maintenance, repairs, and maybe a fresh coat of paint before hitting the road on their new territory.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

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Thousands of interlocked bricks cover the roadbed where Canadian Pacific Railway tracks once carried trains to and from the CP station in North Bay, ON. This is quite a different look from the one presented in Mr. sdfourty's post a few days ago ... <br>
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51787 <br>
This beautiful stone and block building is now home to the North Bay Museum. The nearest tracks are some distance away as seen at the left of my photo. The grounds around the station building are used for a bus stop and turn-around, green-space parkland, walking trails, and public parking lots to the south.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

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This view is from the A-end doorway of the dual diesel generator enclosure toward the B-end baggage and supply storage area of baggage car KRC 9631 (ex-VIA 9631, exx-CN 9631, nee-CN 9250) NSC built in 1955 on train KRC 291 The Pukatawagan Mixed just minutes before departure from The Pas, MB on March 16, 2023. <br>
As one of the two generators pounds away behind me, the hot air furnace on the right is keeping the baggage and supplies nice and warm during the trip to Puk. <br>
I was so fortunate to be offered a personal tour of this unique mixed-train consist by a local KRC employee while it was being prepared for departure. Something completely unexpected but thoroughly appreciated! <br>
Another great experience on my 2023 winter voyage to Churchill and return. :-)

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Keewatin Railway
Date:	03/16/2023
Location:	The Pas
Province:	Manitoba

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HBRY 5000 EMD SD50 (ex HBRY 5010, exx-NREX 5082, exxx UP 5082, nee CNW 7022) chills out in the yard next to the HBR diesel shop in The Pas, MB March 16, 2023. This unit was just 1 of 20 that I was able to view and photograph during my two days in this northern Manitoba community.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Hudson Bay Railway
Date:	03/16/2023
Location:	The Pas
Province:	Manitoba

2 Comments | 10 Favourites

NBSR 6441 waits in line with a plethora of other foreign power at the ONR shop complex in North Bay, ON on a beautiful, unseasonably mild mid-April morning. In town for a meeting and dinner the night before, I was very fortunate to get a personal walking tour of the car and locomotive shops and exterior yards the following morning with a friend and current shop supervisor at the facility. <br>
The continuous high-quality workmanship produced by the employees here at the ONR shops is a big reason why the facility is continually full of work projects, and has a backlog outside waiting to get in for maintenance and repairs. A very neat place to see in full action. :-)

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	New Brunswick Sout…
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 15 Favourites

The former Canadian Pacific Railway station in North Bay, ON (now the North Bay Museum) has been saved and had its exterior beautifully restored. I presume the inside is equally as nice but it was much to early for me to enter and find out. Just a few hundred yards south of the station building is where I captured the former ONR Tee-Train equipment sitting inside a fenced-in compound adjacent to the T&NO 503 steam engine sitting on a track panel out in the open.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 12 Favourites

The 'look' on the front of this ONR Tee-Train locomotive says it all! "What the hell happened" <br>
Still sitting behind a fenced in Town of North Bay maintenance compound, the remaining two pieces of ONR's former Tee-Train equipment continue to sit and decay for another year.<br>
I first snapped this out-of-service train set sitting in a deadline in ONR's North Bay yard back in 2000. http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=5700 <br>
So after 23 years of being moved around, stored, set on fire, and generally neglected, the future for this rather unique railway equipment doesn't look very promising. :-(

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	04/13/2023
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 9 Favourites

Well, after all, it was Saint Patrick's Day, and there in the middle of a string of new blue and grey HBR power was this 'colour of the day' locomotive so I snapped it for posterity. <br>
HBRY 5007, an EMD SD50 (ex-NREX 9844, exx-UP 9844, exxx-UP 5055, nee-MP 5055) was shut down in the HBR diesel shop yard along with more than a dozen other new and old HBRY units.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Hudson Bay Railway
Date:	03/17/2023
Location:	The Pas
Province:	Manitoba

5 Comments | 13 Favourites

Other than a couple of locals off-loading supplies from the baggage car, there was no one else on the platform at Thicket Portage, MB but me on this cold and snowy morning. The weather has changed dramatically from the day before when I was in Churchill, MB where it was blistering cold, but beautifully sunny with not a cloud in the sky. This snowfall would get heavier as the day went on and eventually leave over a foot of fresh stuff by the time it was over.
The community was originally known as Franklin Portage after the Franklin expedition. It is one of the portages in the route used to connect the Nelson River system with Wintering Lake. The community is located on the Hudson Bay Railway.
Thicket Portage is 48 km south of Thompson and 256 km northeast of The Pas. The railway provides the only all-year surface transportation linkage to the outside. A winter road is established for six to eight weeks every year.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	03/15/2023
Location:	Thicket Portage
Province:	Manitoba

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