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Poof.......blasting through a drift, throwing the snow upwards and sidewards.

Name:	JA
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	02/03/2015
Location:	St. Thomas
Province:	Ontario

9 Comments | 32 Favourites

Cold days of winter brings out the glory of steam to its full extent. Proof positive is CN 6218 making its way north on the Bala Sub, with a train of railfans. Passing under the CPR, 6218 makes a beautiful sight from the shoulder of the Don Valley Parkway. Back in 1965, the DVP was quiet on a weekend, and pulling off for the occasional train picture was no problem.

Name:	Steve Bradley
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	01/30/1965
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 44 Favourites

The herd of Rocky Mountain goats are oblivious to VIA's finest as it rolls towards Jasper.

Name:	Deane Motis
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	09/16/2014
Location:	Jasper
Province:	Alberta

5 Comments | 14 Favourites

The Canadian glides by Sunnyside while a pair of GO trains race to Union Station. This was a nice welcome to my new home, Toronto!

Name:	Ryan Gaynor
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	08/28/2014
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 37 Favourites

Alberta Prairie 2-8-0 pulls the daily excursion train into Big Valley

Name:	Trevor Sokolan
Railway:	Tourist
Date:	08/16/2014
Location:	Big Valley
Province:	Alberta

1 Comments | 8 Favourites

The setting sun illuminates an eastbound GO train as it negotiates the recently opened (within the last week) shoo-fly around the South Blair Road grade separation. The new GO 660 leads 612 on a shakedown run. Shot was taken with my 300mm 'howitzer' hand held and manually focused, a real adventure given that this lens does not have an infinity and my eye won't focus anymore! 2008hrs.

Name:	Mike Lockwood
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	04/27/2014
Location:	Whitby
Province:	Ontario

7 Comments | 28 Favourites

Southbound Agawa Canyon Tour train crosses the trestle over the hydro dam at Montreal Falls.

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Algoma Central
Date:	09/25/1993
Location:	Montreal Falls
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 40 Favourites

CN ES44DC 2291 leads M310's train onto the north track at Devona. The spectacular sunsets and high winds blowing sand all over the place makes for a dramatic image.

Name:	Tim Stevens
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	01/28/2014
Location:	Devona
Province:	Alberta

6 Comments | 59 Favourites

CN Mikados 3228 and 3282 doublehead a stone train from the Kirkfield Quarries, crossing Highway 35 in Lindsay on the Midland Subdivision. July 1958.<br><br><i>[Editors' note: The CN Midland Sub was formerly the old Midland Railway, originally the Port Hope Lindsay and Beaverton Railway line from Lindsay to Beaverton.]</i>

Name:	Bill Thomson
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/00/1958
Location:	Lindsay
Province:	Ontario

12 Comments | 61 Favourites

Southbound PV (Peace-Vancouver) freight navigates the loop at Pavilion as it descends toward the bottom of the Fraser Canyon at Lillooet. Note the track speeder in the clear

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	09/16/1991
Location:	Pavilion
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 14 Favourites

A late running 133 crawls over Cherrywood, preparing for a meet with train 608. The sights in this area are quite spectacular due to the ice storm.

Name:	Michael Delic
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/24/2013
Location:	Pickering
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 26 Favourites

Clearing away the trees from last nights ice storm.

Name:	Michael Da Costa
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	12/23/2013
Location:	Moffat
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 41 Favourites

Working the assistant-conductor position on this train also bringing the camera to work, GO 916 with a double set F59 sits outside the train shed on track number 3 awaiting to depart eastwards on time to Oshawa.

Name:	Michael Da Costa
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	10/12/2008
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Nothing says BC Rail like tough grades and remote country. Here is a view looking back as we head north from Taylor BC. Mile post 720 is on the opposite side of the unit, while mile 715 is at the curve just before the bridge over the Piece River, needless to say there are some steep grades in these 5 miles of former PGE track. Also worth mentioning is the remoteness of the area on the other side of the river (the south side). If you look to the right of the fire extinguisher symbol on the door of the unit you will notice a large break in the tree line, this is the gravel pit at Teko (around mile 713). To reach Teko by road from this same location one has to drive over 200km.

Name:	Matt Watson
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	05/06/2010
Location:	Taylor
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 17 Favourites

<b>Lookin' Good Budd</b>. Built in 1958, this venerable Budd RDC1 has finished its work for the day and rests at Stuart Street Yard in Hamilton. The reflection was made possible due to some wet snow that fell overnight and accentuated with a wide lens.

Name:	Ryan Gaynor
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	11/27/2013
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 26 Favourites

Power off CP Boundary Subdivision wayfreight sits by the station at Grand Forks after making a Midway turn. In the morning it will head home to Nelson BC.

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/18/1985
Location:	Grand Forks
Province:	British Columbia

3 Comments | 15 Favourites

Nipawin SK has one heck of a bridge, too bad it sees so few trains. This was one of only four trains to use it in 2007, though reportedly in 2004 it wasn't used at all. I imagine it sees slightly more use now that CP has sold the line to a shortline called Torch River Rail.

Name:	Matt Watson
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/03/2007
Location:	Nipawin
Province:	Saskatchewan

3 Comments | 33 Favourites

The sun has come out, however the snow has yet to taper off as a storm off Georgian Bay moves on, revealing a winter wonderland at CN's Waubamik siding. Utilizing directional running rights over CN's Bala Sub, CP 220 cruises south behind an SD40-2F and five SD40-2's, with about 11 miles separating it from home rails of CP's Parry Sound Sub at Boyne. Of the locomotives powering this train, CP 9002, 5763, 5984, 5925, 6037 and 5966, only two, 5763 and 6037, as of November 6, 2013 are still listed on the active roster. Sadly, the 9002 was retired less than two years after this shot was taken. 1451hrs.

Name:	Mike Lockwood
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/03/2011
Location:	Waubamik
Province:	Ontario

7 Comments | 59 Favourites

Great Sandhills Railway B23-7 #4253 and a sister are a few miles out of Leader headed for the gas plant at McNeil Alberta. The haze in the air is from forest fires buring in Alberta and British Columbia

Name:	Trevor Sokolan
Railway:	Great Sandhills Ra…
Date:	08/20/2010
Location:	Leader
Province:	Saskatchewan

2 Comments | 8 Favourites

Lake Erie and Northern car 933 is shown coupled to two other cars at Port Dover station. The gentleman posed by 933 is a good friend of Mr. Hommerding, Jim Findlay of Hudson, Michigan, who attended the fantrip with Cecil and is seen snacking on an ice cream bar. <br><br>Car 933 would be a “protect service” car that was kept at the Port Dover Station to cover any needs of service. Port Dover was the south end of the LE&N line that started at the GRR-LE&N Galt Main Street station and ran 51 miles south to Port Dover. The station was built in 1947 to a CPR Station Plan, at Chapman and Main Street, Milepost 51.0 of the LE&N. It was sold in 1965 to CN, who later sold it to the local town. Today it is leased to a private firm, owned by the Norfolk Region and still exists today (though not like it looks in this 1950 photo!). <br><br> This series of photos were taken by a now-deceased friend, William Cecil Hommerding (who passed away in 1983). Another mutual (deceased) friend, Jim Findlay of Hudson, Michigan (pictured) accompanied Cecil on the trip. The Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse chapters of the NHRS did each run several one day trips over the entire near 69 mile GRR-LE&N line around when these photos were taken, always on a Sunday. This particular trip was by a group from Michigan who held a one day, full length of the line trip on April 30th 1950 using GRR car 842, as pictured in many of Cecil's images. Although both Cecil and Jim are now deceased, their photos live on! <br><br> (<i>* Editors note: we would like to thank Doug Leffler for sharing these excellent historical photographs of Cecil's with us, and George Roth for helping interpret much of the historical and contextual information depicted in these photos.</i>) <br><br> <i><u>Other photos from the fantrip:</u></i><br> Car 842 crossing the bridge at Waterford: <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10357"><b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10357</b></a><br> The fantrip at Kitchener: <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10681"><b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10681</b></a><br> The GRR's Preston Shops: <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10413"><b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10413</b></a><br> <br> <i>For more details on Cecil, see <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10297"><b>here</b></a>.</i>

Name:	Cecil Hommerding, c…
Railway:	Grand River Railwa…
Date:	04/30/1950
Location:	Port Dover
Province:	Ontario

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