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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.

RTCDave's Railpictures.ca photo upload statistics

Number of images: 132
Total gold: 2073
Number of comments recieved : 270
Number of comments posted : 85
Total views: 225844

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RTCDave's 132 photos on Railpictures.ca:

B&O 4341 leads C&O SC-5 past Windsor Depot on April 5th 1980 with phosphate rock empties on the head end.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Chesapeake and Ohi…
Date:	04/05/1980
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

7 Comments | 11 Favourites

CSXT NI-42 sets off cars for CN at Van De Water Yard, Windsor, Ont. March 2nd 1987. Whats unusual today is not the ex Seaboard System U-Boat, but the Conrail SD40-2.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	CSX Transportation
Date:	03/02/1987
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 8 Favourites

"South of the Border". CP 1588 is todays assigned Boat Job engine as NS tug 'R.G. Cassidy' heads light upriver to the CN dock. Across the river can be seen Detroit's Michigan Central Station, the US Post Office building and Tiger Stadium. Windsor, Ont. Dec 28th 1985.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/28/1985
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 14 Favourites

CP 501 threads the Electric Yard (Van de Water) leads and enters the CN Caso Sub at Windsor South

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/1985
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

On a frigid December afternoon, CP 501 enters the CN Caso Sub North main track and heads past the station, down into the Detroit River Tunnel.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/1985
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

N&W ND-91 passes the Walker Road crossing gate tower (Adjacent to the Walkerville VIA station) as it arrives in Windsor, Ont on March 27th 1984 with a pair of Ex Illinois Terminal GP38-2's. I actually worked one shift in that tower. When CN took over the Conrail Canada Division I was working as a Car Control Clerk. When CN took over we were merged in with the CN clerks and with barely any seniority I ended up on the spareboeard. One day I get a call to work afternoon shift at the gate tower. Now the gate tower men were S&C (Signals) guys on light duties, but since they didn't have a spareboard the clerks covered any vacancies. With no training whatsoever I arrived at the tower. The guy on days said " When a train comes put the gates down. I you gotta take a leak go behind the bushes at the bottom of the stairs and if you gotta take a dump, put the gates down and go to the VIA station" and he left. There was just a phone in the tower. Good thing I took slides to label and I called one of my railfan friends to come visit me and bring me a Harveys burger.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Norfolk and Wester…
Date:	03/27/1984
Location:	Windosr
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 21 Favourites

The NS "Puller" crests the grade out of the Detroit River Tunnel and is about to pass Windsor South on its run from NS Oakwood Yard in Melvindale MI to the CP Windsor Yard. July 19th 1986.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Norfolk Southern
Date:	07/19/1986
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 11 Favourites

Conrail YDLW-1 (Yard-Detroit Livernois-Windsor) with SD40-2's 6391-6496 charges out of the East Tube of the Detroit River Tunnel into Windsor, Ont on Nov 3rd 1980.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Conrail
Date:	11/03/1980
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

CN 3237-9667-9591 start train no. 422 away from Windsor with open multi-levels of Dodge pick-ups in tow.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	01/30/1981
Location:	Tecumseh
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 14 Favourites

CP No.501 with SOO6620-SOO6616 waits its turn to head through the Detroit River Tunnel.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/11/1985
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/14/1985
Location:	Windsor
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

CP Extra 5550 West hustles across the flatlands of Essex County with an in-identified QNSL SD40 trailing.

Name:	David J Parker
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/20/1984
Location:	Haycroft
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 8 Favourites

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