Stories about railfanning – trip reports and so forth. Any time I’m trackside and writing about it, it’ll be here.
I ride my bicycle a lot. Often it’s for errands – grocery store, Tim Hortons, library – but every week or so, I go for a longer ride. One destination is CN’s Symington Yard, the south/east end of which is about 10 km away from my house.
When I first visited Winnipeg in the early 2000s, I went up the short tower in the Forks and photographed a train at nearby Union Station. Recently I decided to try that again.
One of the few bends in the CN Rivers subdivision is 16 miles west from Winnipeg’s downtown Union Station. Recently I spent an enjoyable morning there.
One photograph I always intended to make was a CN train crossing the Red River in Winnipeg. After living here for almost 16 years, I finally did it.
I don’t know why I titled this post “Luck of the Irish”. These photos were taken in the night of April 4-5, 2025, which was definitely not St. Patrick’s Day. And I’m not Irish.
The first locomotive painted for Canadian Pacific Kansas City (9375) was revealed on May 13, 2024. It took me a year and four days to see my first CPKC-painted locomotive.
An “ordinary” outing turned into a wild feast of trains, turkeys, and fallen flags.
You’ve heard of the Leaning Tower of Pisa? What about the leaning tower of CN?
I have been making some “taken this day in xxxx” social media posts, picking a photo from years past but from the same month and day. I chose a few from “January 28, 2001” from a visit to McAdam, New Brunswick.
When I was in Toronto recently, I was excited to see my first VIA Rail “Venture” trainsets. These trains have been in service since November 2022; I just didn’t catch them in my previous trips to Toronto. I was walking along the rail corridor to Union Station, photographing GO Transit and VIA Rail and UP … Read more