Railpictures.ca - Profile and photos of sdfourty

Profile Page for sdfourty

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

About sdfourty

Best hobby in the world ! A photographer friend recommended the Nikon brand, bought my first used Nikon in 1976 and continue to use that Nikon body regularly. Best ever train ride: Extra 6060 west, with seven blue with yellow stripes CC&F cars, Ottawa to Toronto via the now lifted Smiths Falls subdivision - at 25 mph, then onto the Kingston sub, west of Napanee the engineman let 6060 run: at 80+ mph, sounded like the Turbo ! Then a quick deceleration & stop at Port Hope: the crowd was huge ! And demonstrated that the 'grape vine' really worked (who needs "social media" ! ) : the whole town showed up! sdfourty.

sdfourty's Railpictures.ca photo upload statistics

Number of images: 724
Total gold: 9569
Number of comments recieved : 1121
Number of comments posted : 445
Total views: 1580453

sdfourty has won Editors Choice 6 times

sdfourty has 7 images in the Time Machine

Contact sdfourty

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

sdfourty's 724 photos on Railpictures.ca:

<br>
<br>
Onto home rails...
<br>
<br>
The NS transfer, NS 5665 – NS9887, deliver CN 3023
<br>
<br>
In the rain at Fort Erie, September 12, 2015 digital by S.Danko.
<br>
<br>
Looking spiffy:
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 43674 "> ET44AC </a>
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Norfolk Southern
Date:	09/12/2015
Location:	Fort Erie
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 8 Favourites

<br>
<br>
...somewhere in the New Brunswick Appalachia.....
<br>
<br>
….” When the green dark forest was too silent to be real “...
<br>
<br>
A pair of GMD's bracket a MLW M636 (2300 series)...running out the final years.....
<br>
<br>
On the Napadogan Subdivision, December 30, 1988 Kodachrome by J. Art Clowes, collection of S. Danko
<br>
<br>
Anyone familiar with this location?

Name:	Art Clowes, collect…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	12/30/1988
Location:	NB rolling plateau
Province:	New Brunswick

1 Comments | 17 Favourites

<br>
<br>
BBD 1980 built LRC-2, VIA 6901 with daily VIA 64
<br>
<br>
At the Stephenson / Lakeshore Road overpass, May 11, 1985 Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	05/11/1985
Location:	Newcastle
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 18 Favourites

<br>
<br>
... Rail Pix Fav Operator....
<br>
<br>
At Guelph Jct, June 8, 1986 Kodachrome by S.Danko;
<br>
<br>
More:
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 48463 "> head end </a>
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/08/1986
Location:	Guelph Jct
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

<br>
<br>
Intermodal – the CP Rail way, single level COFC
<br>
<br>
CP Rail had the CAST intermodal contract: rail – ocean, utilizing CP Ships
<br>
<br>
And a typical smorgasbord lash up – rather clean burning considering
<br>
<br>
MLW M636's mixing up with aging Chessie / C&O EMD's.
<br>
<br>
At CP Rail Cherrywood, December 15, 1985 Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/15/1985
Location:	Pickering
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

<br>
<br>
The Canadian Museum of Rail Travel is now the Cranbrook History Centre
<br>
<br>
While the revenue focus of the Centre - now an independent entity financed by venue room rentals, on site tours, retail gift shop and donations - has moved away from the passenger rail cars the stars of the Centre remain the rail cars.
<br>
<br>
Amazing how most of the vintage passenger cars, including the interior fixtures, managed to survive years of reconfiguration and out right neglect.
<br>
<br>
Rail car Omemee was rescued circa 1998 as a lakeside cottage in Wisconsin.
<br>
<br>
Omemee's entrance to the Men's smoking room and wash room is the through the archway shown, then to the left. A small brass plate above the archway reads in caps: “ INTERIOR VESTIBULE – PAT'D.DEC.25,1900. THE BARNEY & SMITH CAR CO. '. Apparently the patent office was open on December 25.
<br>
<br>
To the extreme right, the lower berth seating is removed – for restoration - the upper berth is closed for daytime travel and while so the upper and lower night time privacy curtains are stored withing the upper berth compartment. Each berth window seat has the luxury of an independently push switch electric light. Note the porter call button between the windows just above the window sill. And of course each window seat passenger has an operating independent window blind – and the luxury of full air conditioning – each window may be opened independently by the passenger(s) – unlike today's centrally controlled, inhibited travel. Unlikely the emerald velvet upholstery is original, however it likely authentic for the period.
<br>
<br>
In the partially restored interior of the Barney & Smith (Dayton, Ohio) 1906 built SOO Line 12-1 sleeper #1220 'Omemee' (12 berths, one Drawing Room (latter for 3 passengers)), the “Soo – Spokane Train De Luxe “ equipment.
<br>
<br>
At the CHC, Cranbrook, B.C., June 13, 2024 digital by S.Danko.

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Preservation
Date:	06/13/2024
Location:	Cranbrook
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 7 Favourites

<br>
<br>
The old verses the new.
<br>
<br>
EMD 1967 built GO #722 model GP40-M-2 is ex Rock Island #3003 / 376
<br>
<br>
GMD 1975 built GO #709 model GP40-2(W)
<br>
<br>
A Sunday morning at Willowbrook, January 2, 1983 Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>
interesting:
<br>
<br>
The ex CRIP units outlasted the GMD units (on the roster)
<br>
<br>
Seven GMD GP40-2(W) to CN 1991; GO 709 to CN 9676
<br>
<br>
The seven EMD's (#720 – 726) traded in 1993 for the F59PH #562-568; EMD resold all seven to LLPX ; GO 722 to LLPX 3211
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	01/02/1983
Location:	Mimico
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

<br>
<br>
Westbound approach Leaside,
<br>
<br>
CP Rail 4502 / 4712 / 4503; a MLW trio: M630 / M636 / M630
<br>
<br>
at Eglinton & Leslie, Leaside, February 22, 1981 Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>
The Park: E T Seton Park;
<br>
<br>
The Bridges: two bridges: north bridge (train is on) built by Canadian Northern Railway - to access CNoR shops in Leaside (CN Leaside);
<br>
<br>
south bridge (original) bridge built by the Ontario & Quebec Railway
<br>
<br>
note location is approx CP Rail mile 205 Belleville Sub ( at mile 204.6 CP Rail Donlands, Junction with CNR Leaside branch)
<br>
<br>
sdfourty
<br>
<br>
More:
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 45018 "> the CNoR bridge </a>
<br>
<br><br>
<br>
sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/22/1981
Location:	Leaside
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 23 Favourites

<br>
<br>
CN Extra 3209 East with a dimensional.
<br>
<br>
..from the removed Hopkins Street overpass, April 27, 1985 Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>
This Kodachrome had me scrambling ...so many changes...
<br>
<br>
TIME MACHINE
<br>
<br>
Only the outlines of the roofs of three dwellings are identifiable in all four images: look closely, far distance upper left
<br>
<br>
Darrell's March 1989 capture
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 22215 "> Extra 3500 East </a>
<br>
<br>
The 1991 view
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 47423 "> Skyline 504 </a>
<br>
<br>
And the October 2016 view, just prior to the overpass removal
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 46002 "> VIA J train #52 / 62 </a>
<br>
<br>
OBTW:
<br>
<br>
CN 3209 is a Century: 1967 MLW built C-424, retired late 1980's, with 10 sisters to Mexico circa 1989.
<br>
<br>
sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/27/1985
Location:	Whitby
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 19 Favourites

<br>
<br>
For reasons that defy logic – by today's standards – early VIA decided the Tempo equipment (built circa 1968),
<br>
<br>
did not suit the needs, despite being the newest (after the Turbos) equipment in the fleet VIA inherited (actually you & I bought from CN),and being head end powered (electrical heat & air);
<br>
<br>
and that explains how Tempo units – owned by CN and not bought by VIA – became available when GO was short ACPU units
<br>
<br>
About the time this Kodachrome was exposed GO was in the process (actual the ONR shops) of rebuilding the two ex MILW F's ( #93A & #104A) into the future GO #910 (rebuilt 1981) & 911 (rebuilt 1982).
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 7095 "> MILW 103A </a>
<br>
<br>
At Bradford,a GO 700 series unit powers a northbound GO, with CN Tempo #3151 providing the HEP, on what must be a re-positioning move on Sunday Nov 14, 1982 Kodachrome by J. Art Clowes collection of S.Danko,
<br>
<br>
Interesting
<br>
<br>
Bradford GO train service commenced September 7, 1982.
<br>
<br>
And all the (steam heated) equipment VIA employed to replace the Tempo Trains is long retired, sold or scrapped and the Tempo Train equipment, after a couple of decades owned by the D&RGW for their Ski Train, is back on CN rails (now Watco) as the Agawa Canyon train.

Name:	Art Clowes, collect…
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	11/14/1982
Location:	Bradford
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 17 Favourites

<br>
<br>
Christmas season creates interesting consists...
<br>
<br>
The Engineman is awaiting the light controlled by the TTR Scott Street Leverman,
<br>
<br>
with an all CN lash up, likely off a Windsor VIA train, (unlikely a 9500 series would lead on the Kingston Sub).,
<br>
<br>
Given three units plus a steam generator, the conventional consist had to be 13 plus cars....
<br>
<br>
GMD 1974 built GP40-2L(W), CN #9425, geared for 65 mph
<br>
<br>
MLW 1960 built RS-18m (modified circa 1967 for Tempo service) CN #3153, geared for 80 mph
<br>
<br>
MLW 1959 built RS-18, CN #3113, geared for 80 mph
<br>
<br>
At TTR Jarvis Street, December 28, 1980 Kodachrome by S.Danko

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	12/28/1980
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

<br>
<br>
The Original Yellow
<br>
<br>
UA / MLW 1967 built ex CN / VIA Power Car #154
<br>
<br>
At Port Hope, August 12, 1979, Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	08/12/1979
Location:	Port Hope
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 19 Favourites

<br>
<br>
What ever happened to …...
<br>
<br>
…........GO Brantford........
<br>
<br>
GO equipment subbing for the tardy delivery of the new, fang-dangled, tilting coach LRC's - ordered 1978 (delivered 1981 + ).
<br>
<br>
GO #500 is the trailing unit on the eastbound GO #506; as GO #514 leads a westbound to the station stop,
<br>
<br>
At CN Brantford, December 28, 1980 Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	12/28/1980
Location:	Brantford
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 19 Favourites

<br>
<br>
Roster shots should be 50mm...(in digital world 50mm FX ( DX 35mm)) ....
<br>
<br>
the only way to get all four ..so 135mm it is....two builders....and what a quad....
<br>
<br>
CLC 1951 built D-T-C 44H44A1 #22 now resides in Tottenham. (D-T-C = Diesel Torque Converter)
<br>
<br>
GMD 1979 built SD40-2 #5920, active?
<br>
<br>
GMD 1950 built FP7A #4036, retired 1982ish
<br>
<br>
GMD 1954 built GP9 #8509 rebuilt 1980ish into a GP9u renumbered #1516, retired 2014
<br>
<br>
A Sunday at Agincourt, February 22, 1981 Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>
Interesting: yesterday (how appropriate), on Saturday December 7, 2024, that SD40-2's sister, #5920 was on the Mactier Sub-Division handling a 'work special' a k a plough extra, north of Medonte.
<br>
<br>
sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/22/1981
Location:	Agincourt
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 21 Favourites

<br>
<br>
A common motive power practice, a CP Rail SD leading a pair of big M's.
<br>
<br>
Second #927, through the Northumberland hills, on the grade approach Lovekin.
<br>
<br>
On a glorious spring day, at the Newtownville overpass, May 11, 1985 Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>
Power: #5504 - #4569 – #4727 – and a ubiquious Chessie.
<br>
<br>
And in the distance, the pair of 'bee bridges' a k a Nichol's road overpasses
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/11/1985
Location:	Newtonville
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 18 Favourites

<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
….......…........…......The Rock.............................
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>

Wednesday only TT #206 rolls through Southern Bay, enroute to Bonavista, at 09:35 on August 4, 1982, Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>

Consist:
<br>
<br>

TT #205 G-8 #802-801 – two loads of pipe -coach #754 – caboose #6061

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Terra Transport
Date:	08/04/1982
Location:	Southern Bay
Province:	Newfoundland and …

2 Comments | 16 Favourites

<br>
<br>
The Rouge Valley and unique place names: Staines, Cherrywood, Locust Hill, CN Beare, and of course Plug Hat Road and Twyn Rivers Drive,
<br>
<br>
Here a pair of SD's have #916 on the move and on the CN York Sub overpass and about to cross Beare Road on the approach to Cherrywood.
<br>
<br>
And do note the treeless CN York right-of-way.
<br>
<br>
Near mile 191 Belleville Sub-Division with new SD40-2 CP Rail 6014, April 19, 1981 Kodachrome by S. Danko.
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/19/1981
Location:	North Scarborough
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

<br>
<br>
Cartier #84 is one of five MLW M-636 acquired new March 1975, scrapped 2011.
<br>
<br>
At the Port Cartier shops, June 7, 1981 Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Cartier
Date:	06/07/1981
Location:	Port Cartier
Province:	Quebec

1 Comments | 13 Favourites

<br>
<br>
Extra 8141 West – with four pups, three with the CP Rail multimark on the cab - hits the Leaside diamond
<br>
<br>
Mile 206.0 Belleville Sub-Division
<br>
<br>
Mile 0.0 North Toronto Sub-Division
<br>
<br>
At Leaside, December 1978 Kodak Tri X negative by S.Danko
<br>
<br>

Likely The London Pickup ?
<br>
<br>
The first track – immediately to the left - is the Belleville Sub-Division ' Don branch ' to Don station at mile 209.5 and onto the TTR trackage controlled by TTR Cherry Street Leverman.

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/02/1978
Location:	Leaside
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

<br>
<br>
An all Canadian passenger train.
<br>
<br>
Designed in Canada. Engineered in Canada. Manufactured in Canada.
<br>
<br>
All weather, proven robust design. Operating on time. Reliable too.
<br>
<br>
MLW's at Speed on a steamy Labour Day weekend.
<br>
<br>
At track speed, two baggage cars - head end and rear - the afternoon Bonaventure: Ottawa section removed at Brockville
<br>
<br>
The view from the Bee Bridge, September 3, 1978 Kodachrome by S.Danko
<br>
<br>
also
<br>
<br>
Upper right: the Newtonville Rd bridge over the CP Rail Belleville Sub.
<br>
<br>
Captured by a trustworthy Nikkor 135mm F1.8 lens with a sturdy Nikkormat EL.
<br>
<br>

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	09/03/1978
Location:	Newtonville
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 22 Favourites

12 3 4 5…►last

sdfourty'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.