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Hi! I’m Steve Boyko and I am a writer, and a photographer who specializes in trains and grain elevators. I like to tell stories through my photos and my blog.

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2025/01/06 RIP Tim Dryden (3)
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2024/12/17 Switching Autoport (5)
2024/12/13 Chasing CN 509 (3)
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2024/12/08 CN Car Control Manual, PEI, 1980 (0)
2024/12/06 35 Years Since December 6 (1)
2024/12/04 Hard to Say I’m Sorry (1)
2024/12/02 RIP Raymond Kennedy (2)
2024/11/28 Review: For the Love of a Son (1)
2024/11/28 10 Questions for Rick Malo (6)
2024/11/23 Traffic Jam on the Rivers Sub (4)
2024/11/17 10 Questions for Oren B. Helbok (3)
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2024/10/22 A Pop-Up Surprise (3)
2024/10/18 CSX x 2 (3)
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2024/10/04 A Spiritual Moment (3)
2024/10/01 A Nice Night for Trains (7)
2024/09/27 A Happy Place (1)
2024/09/24 Drawn to the Rhythm (0)
2024/09/20 Railfan soliloquies (2)
2024/09/17 Just What I Needed (5)
2024/09/13 CN Synoptical History on Prince Edward Island Railway
2024/09/10 Review: The School Car (1)
2024/09/06 Boxcar Detective (0)
2024/09/03 A CN Interchange in Regina (5)
2024/08/30 The Rusty Relics Museum (0)
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2024/08/25 Along the Stewart Southern (2015), Part 3 (5)
2024/08/24 Along the Stewart Southern (2015), Part 2 (1)
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2024/08/02 The Road to Regina, Part 3 (2)
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2023/11/14 The Musical Time Machine (1)
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2023/11/10 Riding the Budd Cars – Chapleau to White River (8)
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2022/11/07 Photo Gift Guide (1)
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2022/10/28 Berlin’s Deutsches Technikmuseum (2)
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2022/10/04 A Bounty of Magazines (8)
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2022/03/29 A Visit to Mimico, Part 3 (0)
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2021/09/24 A Better Attitude (8)
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2021/09/17 Kitchener Railfanning, Reloaded (4)
2021/09/14 Chasing an SD90 (2)
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2021/07/09 CN Regina Line Car Control Manual (6)
2021/07/06 Thanking My Blog Partners (6)
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2021/03/19 Ethics and Rail Photography (16)
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2020/10/02 A Study of Signals (16)
2020/09/29 VIA’s Churchill Train, Coming and Going (6)
2020/09/25 The GWWD From Above (15)
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2020/08/28 Fog in Winnipeg? (4)
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2020/07/21 The 2001 Census Cars (0)
2020/07/17 Another Blue Barn in Winnipeg (8)
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2020/05/15 CP TEC Trains (6)
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2020/04/17 Air Time (12)
2020/04/14 No Trains, But a Great Sky (9)
2020/04/10 Another GWWD Fan Trip (12)
2020/04/07 A GWWD Fan Trip (5)
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2020/03/31 Two Oil Trains Meet in a Bar… (4)
2020/03/27 Book Review: Streetcars of St. John’s (0)
2020/03/24 Soviet Military Toys (8)
2020/03/20 Social Distance (15)
2020/03/17 Dark Times With Caleb (5)
2020/03/13 CN, then CP, then CN (9)
2020/03/11 “By The Book” – Railfan Edition (6)
2020/03/04 VIA 2 On The Move? (2)
2020/03/03 The Waiting (2)
2020/02/28 Ontario Northland in New Brunswick (4)
2020/02/25 Book Review: The Ontario Northland Railway (4)
2020/02/21 Snow Time (4)
2020/02/18 Electric Buses in Winnipeg – The 2000s (4)
2020/02/11 Chasing the Maroon (8)
2020/02/10 A CEMR GMD1 (6)
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2020/01/18 Flashback: Last VIA Budd Train For a While (2)
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2020/01/09 Art? Or a Tragedy? (9)
2020/01/07 Searching for the Maroon (4)
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2020/01/01 First Trains of a New Decade

2019 (54)

2019/12/31 Tyler’s Year End Wrapup (2)
2019/12/30 2019 Roundup (8)
2019/12/20 Revisiting the Maritimes (14)
2019/12/06 Restoring David Othen’s Files (20)
2019/11/27 Playing Leapfrog (9)
2019/11/20 2 UP (10)
2019/11/16 Engage! (11)
2019/11/15 Chasing an Oil Train (2)
2019/11/08 Noise and Confusion (10)
2019/11/06 Book Review: Self-Propelled Cars of the CNR (2)
2019/10/28 Morning Light (8)
2019/10/25 Dark to Light (1)
2019/10/10 Fallen Flags at Lorette (8)
2019/10/07 Book Review: Streamliners (0)
2019/10/04 Railfanning for the Weekend (3)
2019/09/13 Incidental Railfanning (5)
2019/09/05 A Branch Line Chase (12)
2019/09/01 A Morning With Jason (4)
2019/08/30 Riding a Combine (9)
2019/08/21 Early April Railfanning (2)
2019/08/19 Book Review: Barns of Western Canada (4)
2019/08/17 Frost and Fog (4)
2019/08/14 A Southern Tour (4)
2019/08/12 Short Stories (2)
2019/08/07 Sunflowers and the PDC (6)
2019/08/04 Book Review: Speedway to Sunshine (0)
2019/08/02 Thank You, Jet Lag (2)
2019/07/26 Riding the Rails to Pukatawagan and Churchill (6)
2019/07/15 The Glorious First of June – Part 2 (7)
2019/07/11 The Glorious First of June – Part 1 (7)
2019/07/05 Book Review: When Trains Ruled the Rockies (3)
2019/07/04 Recent Foreign Power (4)
2019/06/28 Rare Mileage for the Prairie Dog (24)
2019/06/13 Louis Riel Day Railfanning (2)
2019/06/08 Book Review: Trackside Newfoundland
2019/06/07 100 Years of CN (4)
2019/04/28 Two If By Air (6)
2019/04/20 A Good Time, Not A Long Time (2)
2019/04/17 Busy Times on the Sprague Sub (2)
2019/04/11 Before the Dawn (7)
2019/04/07 A Comedy of Errors (7)
2019/03/29 VIA’s Canadian – How Many Locomotives? (8)
2019/03/13 CN’s Rail Inspection Portals (12)
2019/02/23 Chasing Along the Weyburn Subdivision (2)
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2019/02/08 New Cars for the Rocky Mountaineer (2)
2019/02/06 VIA 2 And Much More (3)
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2019/01/08 First Impressions of the DJI Mavic Air Drone (6)
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2018 (19)

2018/12/28 Top 12 of 2018 (3)
2018/12/23 VIA Rail To Get New Trains (5)
2018/12/21 Book Review: Southern Pacific Railroad (0)
2018/12/13 Out of Time (2)
2018/12/10 VIA Rail Returns to Churchill (0)
2018/12/06 The 2018 CP Holiday Train (1)
2018/11/29 On a Mission (9)
2018/11/20 The GWWD’s 44 Tonner on the Move (7)
2018/11/14 New Book: Passing a Half Century (3)
2018/11/13 An 18 Year Old Mystery Solved (4)
2018/11/08 Book Review: Canadian Pacific Railway (0)
2018/11/01 A Train Reaches Churchill (4)
2018/10/31 Golden Slumbers (0)
2018/10/28 Mighty Trains Season 2 (0)
2018/10/26 The CP Business Train Comes to Town (2)
2018/10/20 The Last Warm Day of 2018? (1)
2018/10/15 Triumph and Tragedy on the Churchill Line (0)
2018/10/10 VIA Rail in a Three Way Meet (0)
2018/10/03 Railway Days 2018 (0)

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