It’s hard to believe that it has been 3 years since my father, Richard Steinbrenner, passed, and I hope everyone doesn’t mind indulging my sharing a memory. In the 1980s, we often went on tri... (more)

Back in the day, the Bytown Railway Society of Ottawa sponsored a number of excursions on the 56 mile long T&NVR, one of two operating logging railways in Canada at the time. The northbound consis... (more)

Eastbound on the Lachute subdivision with seven loads of sodium chlorate and seven boxcars of newsprint.

An FP9A - FPB-4 - RS-18 lashup leads "The Ocean" from Halifax to Montreal across the Richelieu River Bridge.

Two RS-18's hustle "The Chaleur" from Gaspe, QC over the last miles into Montreal. Even in summer a steam generator car is included in the consist.

Three GP-9's head up the daily Canadian National-Central Vermont freight from Montreal to St. Albans, VT. Despite the GT markings the lead unit is assigned to the CV. Units regularly were swappe... (more)

On a wet and dreary day an M636 and an SD40 lead a westbound freight past the drawbridge tender's cabin.

A pair of six-motor MLW's, M636 and a C-630M, race an eastbound freight past the suburban St. Bruno station.

Two MLW C-630M's hustle a freight westbound under the Highway 116 bridge.

I was not taking pictures yet when my family went on a summer vacation through Ontario and Quebec in August 1972. We stopped at CP's Sherbrooke yard and found a lot of activity, with two RS10s an... (more)

The holiday rush is on as this passenger train crosses the Richelieu River. This was the site of a wreck on June 29, 1864 when an 11 car Grand Trunk passenger train went through the open swing bri... (more)

A westbound freight is making a lift from the small yard that is part of the west leg of the wye with the Valleyfield Sub. Coteau was and still is a busy junction on the CN Kingston Sub. where th... (more)

The fireman and headend brakeman are going into the station to confer with the agent-operator before making a lift from the yard. Coteau was and still is a busy junction on the CN Kingston Sub. w... (more)

CP's "The Canadian" has more than adequate power (FP7A- F9B-RS10-RS10) for its short consist. The FP7A that is sadly in need of a paint job is on a commuter consist that is laying over ... (more)

Westbound Train 915 is accelerating to track speed passing the station mileboard sign for De Beaujeu where CP's Winchester Sub. crosses the CN's Alexandria Sub. where there is a 50 miles per hour ... (more)