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About RTCDave

I have been photographing trains since I was 15 years old back in nineteen seventy something. I have worked on the railway since 1979 starting at Conrail in Windsor, and have worked at both CP and CN. My first slide camera was my Dad's old Zenit-E (Russian POS with a sticky shutter). From there I went through a few Minolta SRT-201's and X-700's. I now use a Nikon D-60 which still works fine. I have started scanning slides using an Epson V550.

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Number of images: 132
Total gold: 2072
Number of comments recieved : 270
Number of comments posted : 85
Total views: 225534

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RTCDave's 132 photos on Railpictures.ca:

GO 721 & 908 appear to be shoving an Eastbound equipment move out of Hamilton (Lack of headlight) taken from the Plains Road bridge just East of Bayview as the shadows encroach upon the right of way during the evening of May 7th 1993.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	05/07/1993
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 13 Favourites

Blowing off steam....Vapour clouds rising from Imperial Oil's Strathcona Refinery give the impression that these two units have one heck of a cooling system problem. This is what happens when CN sends you to Edmonton in March.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/19/2020
Location:	Sherwood Park
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 7 Favourites

A colourful consist of CEFX1019-SOO6602-CEFX2790-CEFX2813 brings CP No 244 through Guelph Jct on a sunny January day, which Im sure was alot colder than it appears.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	2005/01/22
Location:	Guelph Jct
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 8 Favourites

A trio of SD40-2's (5904-5711-6004) is on the pull out of the Expressway Terminal at Hornby with train No 123 for Detroit.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	101/06/2004
Location:	Milton (Hornby)
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 8 Favourites

TH&B No 371 pauses briefly at Welland on its run from Buffalo (Exchange St) to Toronto Union.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Toronto Hamilton a…
Date:	09/18/1980
Location:	Welland
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 12 Favourites

CN 6773 takes a spin on the turntable down on the riverfront in Windsor, Ont.
I was only 15 when I shot this. Back in the days when you could get up close, when you would get a wave to come up in the cab and maybe even get a ride through the yard, and if extremely lucky, get to blow the horn.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/12/1976
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 15 Favourites

An Eastbound VIA arrives Toronto Union Station led by CN 6355, an RDC-3. Train is from either London (via Kitchener/Guelph) or Niagara Falls.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	03/22/1978
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

"Ladies and Gentlemen, the Captain has turned off the No Smoking sign"

CN 3111 and an unidentified accomplice smoke it up as they accelerate No 84 away from Woodstock.

Thats my 1978 metallic blue Plymouth Arrow sitting in the parking lot. The one with the faulty head gasket that would overheat above 90km/h.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	07/17/1981
Location:	Woodstock
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 34 Favourites

The Goderich & Exeter has just dropped off the latest products from General Motors Diesel in London at CN's MacMillan Yard in Toronto. Fortunately for me, I worked days on Saturdays so took a spin down through the yard after leaving the RTC Centre.
Out in the open are Direct Rail Services (UK) JT42CWR 66424
SNTF (Algeria) GT36CW's 060DR11-060DR01-060DR12-060DR10
and Direct Rail Services (UK) JT42CWR 66425

July 7th 2007

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Builder/Manufactur…
Date:	07/07/2007
Location:	Concord
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 6 Favourites

The CP Eastbound "Starlite" hustles through Burlington on the CN Oakville Sub behind SD40's 5547 & 5506 on Oct 14th 1981.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/14/1981
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 16 Favourites

One to cool you down during this hot and humid July 2020.

CP 5511 is being used to hostle 4700 either into or out of the Windsor roundhouse. Sometimes during cold weather, the big-un's air starters would freeze up so they would shove them into the house for a warm-up.
CP5552-4706 in the background are sitting on the fuel/sand track.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/06/1977
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 18 Favourites

A pair of STL&H SD40-2's (5614-5993) head train #138 through Guelph Jct, Ont on Aug 18th 2002.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/18/2002
Location:	Guelph Jct
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 14 Favourites

CP 511-17 cruises down the "Hornby Dip" at the 6th Line crossing just East Of Milton, Ont with a colourful power consist during the rainbow/rent-a-wreck era. Feb 17th 1995.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/17/1995
Location:	Milton
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 12 Favourites

Who's on third? A trio of VIA FPA-4's 6765-6789-6769 await their next assignment at the Spadina roundhouse in downtown Toronto on August 4th 1982. The approximate location of third base at Skydome, er sorry, I mean Rogers Centre today.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	09/04/1982
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

Clean CN SD40-2W 5362 & GTW 5929 wheel a Westbound on the North Track of the Halton Sub between Ash and Tansley

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/21/1997
Location:	Tansley
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

GEXR #432 heads East on the CN Halton Sub crossing Winston Churchill Blvd with a colourful consist leading some flats full of new military vehicles from GMDD London.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	02/24/2002
Location:	Norval
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 10 Favourites

imágenes de ferrocarril.ca You may ask why an NdeM E60C is sitting at the diesel shop at Mac Yard? Why not.

I believe a few were imported by Bombardier to be rebuilt for use on the Montreal commuter lines. I may be wrong, but the timing of the Rover RTC couldn't have been better for me to get this roster shot.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Other
Date:	10/08/2006
Location:	Concord
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 10 Favourites

The old boiler in the basement of the depot is working overtime on this frigid January morning as a C&O Puller (Even after the CSX it was still referred as the C&O Puller) is seen returning to Rougemere Yard in Dearborn, Michigan from the CP Yard in Windsor. The old NYC/PC/CR depot is now CN Windsor South and was nicknamed "The Hub" by local railfans that used the station as a meeting place.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	CSX Transportation
Date:	01/25/1987
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Conrail St Thomas to Windsor local WQST-1 "The Plug" passes beneath the Hwy 401 bridge and clatters across the C&O diamonds at Pelton on the South side of Windsor.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Conrail
Date:	07/06/1982
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

A day trip to the Niagara Region with my late friend Mike McIlwaine on Aug 18th 1980. Our last stop before heading home to Windsor was the CR/THB Welland Yard where we found GP-7 74 just waiting to be lit up by a few flash bulbs.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Toronto Hamilton a…
Date:	09/18/1980
Location:	Welland
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 20 Favourites

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