Stories about railfanning – trip reports and so forth. Any time I’m trackside and writing about it, it’ll be here.
I’m not trackside often these days, but my impression is that rail traffic is down. CPKC traffic has always been a bit sparse around Winnipeg, but on the CN Rivers subdivision, the wait between trains seems to be longer than it normally is.
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?
