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About Dave Brook

I started chasing trains after listening to my grandfathers stories of riding steam through the Rockies, and seeing the ore train in Bracebridge. From that I worked for CN/VIA/GO Transit for 6 years before becoming an air traffic controller. I discovered I liked trains more from the outside than in.

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Number of images: 771
Total gold: 6405
Number of comments recieved : 721
Number of comments posted : 586
Total views: 653817

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Dave Brook's 771 photos on Railpictures.ca:

I miss this cab. Fewer and fewer remain it seems....

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/10/2021
Location:	Paris
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/23/2024
Location:	Parry Sound
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 6 Favourites

Who would have ever thought this would almost be a ubiquitous lashup?

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	03/01/2024
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 7 Favourites

A tender-turned-steam generator for the Agawa Canyon train. 4 rebuilt GP9's were the power.I'm hoping to find those shots.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Algoma Central
Date:	08/1978
Location:	Sault Ste Marie
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 14 Favourites

And the littlest will save them all. When lead unit 8126 failed on the hill, H72 came to the rescue. 3 non-turbocharged 645's sounded wonderful flying through the west end of Orrs Lake.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	02/19/2024
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

This one got a lot of attention. 2 BNSF units taking empty racks from Welland to Wolverton. Happily, it flew up the hill heading for Galt just before sunset.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	02/27/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 12 Favourites

A late afternoon westbound runs through the curves north of Ramsey Lake, approaching Sudbury Station.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/1991
Location:	Sudbury
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

Not much has changed in 3 years.....well, the Expressway is gone, and there cab cars are now running out their final miles.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	03/30/2011
Location:	Milton
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 14 Favourites

Catching the last light of day. Despite the heads-up from Chris Derro, this one was rather difficult to catch...CP sent 2 stack trains down the Bala Sub back to back causing an amusing 100km of wasted chase, and almost missing it all together.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	02/23/2024
Location:	Parry Sound
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Canadian railroading unity......kicking up the snow.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/07/2021
Location:	Drumbo
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

These units will always be my favourite. That can mixed so perfectly with that carbody. The flared radiators from the natural gas experiment just add a little pizzazz.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/20/2021
Location:	Paris
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

This is why I love nose-out DPU's.

Ontario is having a pretty much faux-winter, but -18 felt pretty cold at 7am. 8941 pulled through town, and stopped at Boyne. It can't be that long, I thought.....signals lined for a northbound so......2 and half hours later the second monster 1+1+1 takes the crossovers to clear the main....for a crew that I suspect will struggle to avoid an early crew change. I'll never understand the logic in running over siding length in both directions.

My only regret is not offering the crew a coffee run.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/24/2024
Location:	Parry Sound
Province:	Ontario

13 Comments | 21 Favourites

"The great locomotive race"...2024 version. Perhaps not quite.The heavily followed rail train rests in Puslinch Siding; they'll be off to work shortly as CP 134; with a UP leader...second day in a row for that comes flying down the main. Cp is very unpredictable these days...perhaps that's a good thing.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	02/22/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

When CP 134 doesn't look at all like CP 134.....it seems to be happening more often. How long until CP is just a giant pool of power and all red units are the rarity?

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	02/21/2024
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 14 Favourites

back when we had winter...Southern Ontario seems to have misplaced it this year, pairs of SOO SD60's roamed the system; usually on the hot container trains.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	2003
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

It's hard to believe that this used to be standard cab; with minor variation, or every locomotive in North America. And then CN had an idea.....

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	02/19/2024
Location:	Drumbo
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 13 Favourites

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/02/2021
Location:	Paris
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

Grain empties descending on the original line. I wonder if this view is even possible 30 years later. Scanned from a print.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/1993
Location:	Revelstoke
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 7 Favourites

Remember when we had these? Trailer isn't bad either.

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1984
Location:	Vaughan
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

We haven't had much white stuff this winter, but when it comes, it rarely disappoints

Name:	David Brook
Railway:	Canadian Pacific K…
Date:	02/16/2024
Location:	Cambridge
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 6 Favourites

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