Stories about railfanning – trip reports and so forth. Any time I’m trackside and writing about it, it’ll be here.
The short chase of CN 509 from the yard in downtown Dartmouth, Nova Scotia to Shearwater was over. The two CN locomotives, pushing the tank car lifted from Irving Oil, arrived in the four track yard outside the Autoport facility.
In early October 2024, I was on my way east to visit my company’s offices in the Halifax area for a few days. I messaged my friends Caleb and Chris to ask if they would be available to get together. Chris was up for a meet-up but Caleb was going to be working. Since Caleb works for CN, this gave me an opportunity to meet both at the same time…
It was an early morning, late September; a fine morning to be out by the rails.
The morning started with a ballast train bombing through Diamond at six AM, darkness enfolding all.
Back in June, I felt like going for a long bicycle ride, and I brought my camera with the “long lens”. Why not?
This pop-up post needed a little digging before I could identify the location. All I had was two images that I scanned off a 4-image 35mm film strip of mine… CN 5691 above, and CP 5570 below.
Continuing the pop-up post series, here’s a quick look at an empty potash train rolling into Winnipeg from off the Sprague subdivision.
Since blog partner Eric Gagnon has been posting a panoply of “pop up” posts, perhaps I could do one of my own. Popping up in Kitchener, Ontario!
It was time to grab my camera and tripod and hit the road. The aurora was calling… and I had to answer.
In the summer of 2013, we drove from Winnipeg to Banff to spend a week in the Rockies. We stopped in the Regina area going west and going east, and I took the opportunity to go see some trains while we were there.
I haven’t been very inspired to photograph trains, so I try to jump on any inspiration I do have. On June 26, 2024 I noticed that the eastbound Canadian was coming, I saw it was a lovely evening, and I decided to make some pictures.