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I think the crew on 580 was having fun plowing over the construction barrels that a paving contractor moved off the road and placed a little too close to the railway track. It was only when the barrels started to roll out in to the traffic lanes on Clarence Street that the crew got on the ground to collect the rolling barrels and move those that remained standing out of the way.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/05/2012
Location:	Brantford
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 11 Favourites

ARN road power gets serviced outside the shop in Grande Prarie after an overnight interchange run to the CN. The power would sit here for most of the day, until late afternoon when they departed for another overnight run south on ARN train 457. The shop area was full of out of service GE's, with the yard being switched with a pair of leased CN GP38-2s. Not exactly what we drove all the way to Grande Prarie to see.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Alberta Railnet
Date:	3/29/2002
Location:	Grande Prarie
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 3 Favourites

Its official, on December 20, 2012, Genesee & Wyoming announced that they had received U.S. Surface Transportation Board approval to control RailAmerica railroads. This will be a welcome change to the Southern Ontario Railway. The blue/white RaiLink scheme was always a favourite of mine, but with only RLK 3873 left in service in faded RaiLink colours, a matched pair of locomotives in the Genesee & Wyoming corporate orange/black scheme is something to look forward to in the new year.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Southern Ontario R…
Date:	10/18/2009
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 7 Favourites

A CN maintainer working on the railway preemption has accidentially put the traffic control signal at the intersection of Colborne Street and Clarence Street on red/red flash. One of the City's traffic signal electricians just happened to be driving by and stopped to reset the signal controller. Naturally this occurred at the same time as the once a week local arrived on the scene, causing mass confusion for the motorists on both streets. The story of the Brantford Spur is going to be an interesting one in the coming months. CN wants to discontinue operations on the spur, however Ingenia, the last customer to be serves off the spur is set to put up a fight.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/15/2011
Location:	Brantford
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 6 Favourites

Thanks to a heads up this late running 331 was well lit when I captured it on one of many well timed field work outings.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	3/25/2011
Location:	Brantford
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 3 Favourites

IC 1001 leads 148 past the station in Brantford. The black IC unit contrasted nicely with the white snow.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/24/2011
Location:	Brantford
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 1 Favourites

CN 148 cruises in to Brantford the day after a heavy snow storm that caused a lot of "missed connections" in Chicago, as illustrated by all the empty well cars at the head end of the train.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	2/3/2011
Location:	Brantford
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 3 Favourites

ONT 514 has completed its work in Kapuskasing and is departing eastbound heading back to Cochrane.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	4/30/2003
Location:	Kapuskasing
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 5 Favourites

CN 231 pulls out of Aldershot Yard with an interesting mix of CN power.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	8/5/1999
Location:	Aldershot
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 3 Favourites

CP 388 has swung south at Guelph Junction and is about to cross Sideroad 3 as it begins down the Hamilton Sub.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	3/14/1999
Location:	Campbellville
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 3 Favourites

Here's some more GEXR variety shortly after the lease of the Guelph Sub. began. GEXR 3835 and 4019 sit with GEXR 700 and 901 out of sight, while on the adjacent track GEXR 4046, EMDX 205 and GEXR 4022 are coupled in to a consist.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	12/30/1998
Location:	Kitchener
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 6 Favourites

A month and a half after the start of the GEXR lease the Guelph Sub., GEXR 3834, GEXR 4161, EMDX 204 and NECR 9539 rest in the yard in Stratford, ON.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	12/30/1998
Location:	Stratford
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

Late in their careers, four CP MLW’s smoke it up on 509 departing London. These locomotives haven’t fared too well. CP 4240 went to the Morristown & Erie and was later scrapped, CP 1825 went to the Minnesota Commercial but doesn’t seem to get much use, CP 4242 went to the Arkansas & Missouri and has been used as a parts source, and CP 4216 also went to the Morristown & Erie where it sits stored, covered in graffiti.

Name:	rs
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	9/28/1997
Location:	London
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 8 Favourites

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Amtrak 823 kicked the bucket on the Maple Leaf the day before, and a pair of GP38-2s from CSX’s Frontier Yard in Buffalo was summoned to power the train to Toronto. The following day, the pair of CSX units are seen leading the eastbound back towards Buffalo, passing SOR’s Stuart Street yard in Hamilton.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Amtrak
Date:	8/31/2002
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 23 Favourites

The southbound Northlander slows for the station stop in North Bay, the conductor at the ready in the doorway to deploy the step box for passengers getting off and on the train.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	7/25/1999
Location:	North Bay
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 12 Favourites

GEXR 580 switches off the Guelph Sub. and on to the Guelph North Industrial Lead at Guelph Jct.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	09/12/2012
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 3 Favourites

What will become a "fallen flag" scheme in 2013, two RailAmerica painted units sit parked adjacent to the Kitchener station for the weekend.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	10/08/2012
Location:	Kitchener
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 5 Favourites

CN 9437 leads a loaded rail train past "AR Illinois" 4138 parked in the yard.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	11/29/2012
Location:	Brantford
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 6 Favourites

CN 396 rolls through Lynden bathed in the low sunlight of a late fall morning.

Name:	rsmith
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	12/14/2012
Location:	Lynden
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 5 Favourites

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