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An enthusiast interested in trains since my high school days (1939-45) at Port Credit High School (beside the CN main line), although not always with a camera. Recently moved to Guelph from Kingston Ontario. Still have my Pentax K1000 but mainly shoot digital now. *All photos copyright Bill Thomson. Editors note: Bill passed away in July 2022, his page is being maintained by RP.ca staff in his memory. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/guelph-on/william-thomson-11195826

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An interesting mural on the side of a store by the tracks in Lansdowne Ontario (21 miles west of Brockville), depicts a steam-powered passenger train passing the old Grand Trunk Railway Lansdowne Station, which would have been located just across the street along the present-day CN Kingston Sub. There was a severe CN train wreck in front of Lansdowne station on February 25th 1962 where one of the derailed boxcars involved smashed into the end of the station, damaging it badly enough to result in the structure being torn down that same year.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/17/2010
Location: Lansdowne
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
Montreal Transportation Commission tram 1959 is pictured at Exporail in October 2012, giving rides to visitors around the museum grounds. It was originally built by Canadian Car & Foundry in 1928, and operated in Montreal until the streetcar or "tramway" system was replaced by buses in the 1950's (August 30th 1959 was the final historic day). MTC 1959 was acquired by the Canadian Railway Museum in 1963, along with a number of other vintage Montreal cars.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Transit
Date: October 2012
Location: St-Constant
Province: Quebec
Comments | 3 Favourites
VIA 910 on an eastbound combined #42 & #56 "J-train" from Toronto pulls into Belleville Station in the late morning, passing CN 8810 and 5563 on a westbound freight. The J-train will be split at Brockville, with one consist heading to Ottawa and the other to Montreal.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 04/23/2009
Location: Belleville
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
Chesapeake & Ohio's Wallaceburg Station is pictured in May 1976, located at Mile 40.94 along C&O's Subdivision 2 (later becoming the CSX Sarnia Sub).
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Chesapeake and Ohi…
Date: 05/30/1976
Location: Wallaceburg
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
Canadian Pacific train #629 was a late afternoon passenger train out of Toronto (for Windsor & Detroit) on the Galt Sub. During the week Budd RDC's were used (known by CP as "Dayliners"), but on Fridays increased traffic required extra coaches and a locomotive to be added. This Friday on one Spring 1954 day, F2a-class 4-4-4 "Jubilee" 3002 is the power, leading #629 through Erindale with the normally assigned RDC's mixed in with the added passenger cars.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: Summer 1954
Location: Erindale (Mississa…
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 25 Favourites
CP ES44AC units 8715 and 8814 head a westbound freight through Roblindale, at Mile 68.7 of the Belleville Sub on August 28th 2009.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/28/2009
Location: Roblindale
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
CN Pacific 5611 (K3d class, built by Baldwin for the GTR in 1910) powers train #36, about to leave Goderich bound for Stratford on a snow-covered day in March 1958. The tender of CN S2a Mikado 3547 is visible on the left.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: March 1958
Location: Goderich
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 17 Favourites
Chesapeake & Ohio's Kingsville Station, boarded up and looking a bit worse for wear, is pictured in May 1981. It was located at Mile 30.51 along C&O's Sub 1. The tracks are gone today, but the 1889-vintage station (designated a heritage property) remains, restored and now home to the Mettawas Station Mediterranean Restaurant.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Chesapeake and Ohi…
Date: 05/13/1981
Location: Kingsville
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
Evening has fallen, and VIA FPA4 6774 on detouring train 79 is seen passing by the old VIA/CN Georgetown Station getting hooped up its train orders from the operator. VIA 79 is detouring off its normal Oakville Sub/Dundas Sub routing this evening due to a wreck at Paris on CN's Dundas Sub. Note the old baggage cart tucked away at the side of the station, and two GO Transit consists parked on the same track (one with an F40PH and the other a single-level cab car) in the Georgetown commuter yard.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 05/06/1987
Location: Georgetown
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 23 Favourites
CN SD70M-2 8891 pops out between the trees heading eastbound on the Kingston Sub over the stone-arched Napanee Viaduct, built in 1856 to cross the Napanee River.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/27/2011
Location: Napanee
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
Chesapeake & Ohio's Dresden Station is pictured in 1971, at Mile 30.2 along the C&O Subdivision No. 2 (later the CSX Sarnia Sub).
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Chesapeake and Ohi…
Date: 1971
Location: Dresden
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
CN's St. Clair Ave. Station is pictured in June 1978. This station was built in 1930/31 as a suburban commuter station along the the Newmarket Sub just north of St. Clair Avenue West west of Caledonia Rd. in Toronto (constructed at the same time as the grade separation project going on with St. Clair Avenue). It was destroyed by fire in February 1997, and subsequently demolished.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: June 1978
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 9 Favourites
A pair of CN GP9RM's lead by 7072 have just crossed the Napanee Viaduct, heading eastbound at Mile 198.7 of the Kingston Sub with a short train.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/16/2003
Location: Napanee
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
Here's a close up view of the buffer and chain coupler arrangement on the rear of the SNTF Algeria unit 060DG5 (EMD model GT26CW) from <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=33555><b>before</b></a>, pictured on the test tracks at the GMD London plant.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Builder/Manufactur…
Date: 06/10/1976
Location: London
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 5 Favourites
The CN Bridgewater NS station is pictured in July 1971. It was built for the Halifax & Southwestern around 1901, and CN eventually took over the line. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by fire in 1982. On the track to the right of the scene are some CN hopper cars with extended sides (often found in woodchip service). <br><br> <i>Note: Geotagged location not exact.</i>
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: July 1971
Location: Bridgewater
Province: Nova Scotia
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
The local wayfreight with CN GP9RM's 4100 and 4132 is seen crossing Bath Road on the 3-mile Cataraqui Spur in Kingston, heading back after switching the Invista (formerly Dupont) plant to the south.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/22/2004
Location: Kingston
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
A CN local with GP9RM's 4119 & 7072 as power switches the siding at Gananoque (formerly used by the Thousand Islands Railway) by the VIA station that is located a ways from the actual town, at Mile 153.9 along the CN Kingston Subdivision.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/30/2003
Location: Gananoque
Province: Ontario
Comments | 6 Favourites
CN SD60F 5509 and SD40-2W 5241 are seen arriving on a westbound freight at Jasper, with the snow-covered mountain ranges and a cloudy white/blue sky making for a very picturesque scene.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 11/19/2003
Location: Jasper
Province: Alberta
Comments | 4 Favourites
New York Central GP40 3056 leads GE U-boats on a freight past the Hagersville interlocking tower, heading eastbound on the CASO crossing the diamond with the CN Hagersville Sub in the evening.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: New York Central
Date: May 1968
Location: Hagersville
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 20 Favourites
GMD shop switcher 113 (one of the former EMD demo SW1500 units) is pictured outside the GMD London locomotive assembly plant, outfitted with buffers to handle new <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=33555><b>SNTF Algerian export locomotives</b></a> under construction (one is visible inside the plant). <br><br> Built in 1971 was a demo unit and formerly used as a shop switcher at EMD's La Grange IL plant, the 113 only lasted about two years as a shop switcher at London before it was traded with Essex Terminal Railway (and became ETR's 107) for their <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=33661><b>SW8 102</b></a>, due to issues with tight trackage at the plant.
Name: Bill Thomson
Railway: Builder/Manufactur…
Date: 06/08/1976
Location: London
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 9 Favourites
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