Railfan Stories

On April 3, my wife was at work, my kids were sleeping in, so I decided to go exploring, high gas prices be damned.

I did my last railfanning of March 2026 in between dropping my child off for work and going to Slide Night at the Manitoba Electrical Museum. Passing time watching passing trains.

A dimensional move on the NB Southern Railway, back in May 2007.

I have a lot of draft posts waiting to be fleshed out. Some are almost finished. And some… well, some are just a title.

I’m not sure celebrated Winnipegger Burton Cummings was thinking about distributed braking containers when he wrote that song, but maybe he was an air brake aficionado!

After a couple of tries, I made it to Elma, Manitoba!

When the mood strikes, get out there. That’s my philosophy for the time being.

We’re going back in the archives for this one, to May 14, 2019. I was playing with my relatively-new drone to record a meeting between two trains on the CN Sprague subdivision, at the Lorette siding.

My son Nick gave me a very simple “point and shoot” film camera, the Panorama Wide Pic. I shared the first roll last year, and now here’s the second roll!

I’ve become very cautious about my winter driving. I am not sure why, but I am far less willing to drive in iffy conditions than I used to be.