Railpictures.ca - Profile and photos of Paul O'Shell

Profile Page for Paul O'Shell

This page shows statistics, photos, and an all-time map for Paul O'Shell. Photographers: Filling your map and earning awards can only be done one way. Submit today!

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. 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

Paul O'Shell's Railpictures.ca photo upload statistics

Number of images: 439
Total gold: 4851
Number of comments recieved : 915
Number of comments posted : 884
Total views: 639089

Paul O'Shell has 1 image in the Time Machine

Contact Paul O'Shell

To contact Paul O'Shell for licensing, permission, or to send a private comment click this link: (contact)
* note: all inquiries are moderated

Paul O'Shell's 439 photos on Railpictures.ca:

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 | 14 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

Business car HBRY 800576 Canadian Sunrise (ex-Grand Canyon 2093, exx-CN 22, exxx-CN 90, exxxx-CN 100 Bonaventure) Class PV-79-E Business Car, NSC built in 1959 sits in the Carlton Trail Railway (OmniTRAX) roundhouse in Prince Albert, SK May 29, 2002. <br>
I was in Prince Albert with a new Nordco ballast regulator/snow fighter for the CTR as seen in the stall next to the Business Car, and got so wrapped up in my work that I failed to get a better angle shot of the car or ask for a tour of the interior. :-( <br>
In my two trips from Winnipeg to Churchill and points in between in the past two years, I have yet to spot this car anywhere on the HBR line. News on its whereabouts would be appreciated from anyone. :-) <br>
The roundhouse still stands in Prince Albert.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Hudson Bay Railway
Date:	05/29/2002
Location:	Prince Albert
Province:	Saskatchewan

Comments | 13 Favourites

After a brief stop to unload groceries and other essential supplies, a yell from the second engineer is my signal to climb back on board VIA #693 The Hudson Bay at HBR Thicket Portage, MB Mile 185.0 Hudson Bay Railway Thicket Sub. on March 13, 2023. <br>
And yes, it is as cold as it looks! Brrr!

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	03/13/2023
Location:	Thicket Portage
Province:	Manitoba

6 Comments | 11 Favourites

The famous CP Multi-Mark is slowly fading from the side of CP 434627 which sits on static display near the VIA station in beautiful downtown Chapleau, ON. <br>
While on a round trip from Sudbury, ON to White River, ON this past July I was able to step off VIA 185's Budd RDC cars and snap a few pics in this small railroad town.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/27/2023
Location:	Chapleau
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Westbound GOT 347 cab car is about to enter the Toronto Union station train shed with a long train of morning commuters. <br>
Construction work is equally busy on new condominium towers, Union Station rework, and the USRC maze of tracks beyond the east end of the train shed. <br>
Out of site to the right is VIA #64 which will depart shortly for Montreal signaling the beginning of my 4-day journey to and from Halifax, NS.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	08/30/2023
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 14 Favourites

GT 79047 sits at CN Pointe St. Charles, QC waiting for its next assignment as a rider car.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Grand Trunk
Date:	08/30/2023
Location:	Montreal
Province:	Quebec

Comments | 18 Favourites

VIA 6439 is in charge of VIA #64 Toronto to Montreal daily at Union Station Toronto, ON August 30, 2023. <br>
The original train shed roof is visible behind the newer concrete structure at the east end of the station complex.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	08/30/2023
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

Battered and boarded up CN 79834 sits at Pointe St. Charles, QC waiting for its next assignment as a rider car.

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/30/2023
Location:	Montreal
Province:	Quebec

1 Comments | 16 Favourites

Having departed Sudbury, ON on time at 09:00 earlier in the day, VIA 185 has arrived at White River, ON Mile 129.9 CP White River Sub. at 18:15 hrs. just one hour and ten minutes late. <br>
Robin, the VIA Service Manager has made arrangements for me to get a lift to my motel from non-other than the former Mayor of White River! The same courtesy was extended to me at 06:30 the next morning for my return trip to Sudbury. Good old northern Ontario hospitality at its finest! :-) <br>
The former CP station, now lettered for VIA Rail is in rather rough condition with many windows broken and boarded up, and no access to the interior. I was disappointed to find the individual letters spelling out WHITE RIVER on the east end roof of the building were no longer there. :-( <br>
As you can see by the beautiful blue sky, it was another great day to be train travelling and taking photos! <br>
Retirement is great!!! :-)

Name:	Paul O'Shell
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	07/27/2023
Location:	White River
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 19 Favourites

With the recent heat wave experienced in Ontario this past week or so, I thought I'd post something on the cooler side from March of this year. <br>
VIA 691, with VIA 6455 on the point is idling away on a yard track in front of the station in The Pas, MB on a very cold March 16, 2023 morning. <br>
KRC's train 291 The Pukatawagan Mixed will soon be made up in front of the station, but the VIA equipment will continue to spend a few more hours in The Pas before making its way north to Churchill, MB later in the day.

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

4 Comments | 13 Favourites

first ◄…3 456 7…►last

Paul O'Shell's Map:

Note: Due to Google's greediness you may have to click the OK button when it asks you if you own this website. We'll replace this in time, but it's going to be a while. Sorry :)

*Note: Only photos with GPS added upon submission are mapped here. Some users do not map images and may show a blank map.