Previous month: 04.09 || Index || 06.09: Next month
Images: These pictures are not censored for quality. What one person considers a bad or useless picture may be exactly what someone else is looking for. I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.
Videos: These videos are very big, which is why railfanning videos are so rare on line. As long as Windows Media Player says "Connecting" it is working, even it if appears to be taking a very long time. It says "Connecting" until it has finished downloading the video. Please be patient. If you are unable to play these videos with Windows Media player, a problem which exists with some versions of Media Player and (sometimes) with Internet Explorer versions lower than 6, I strongly recommend the use of Quicktime if it is available. If you are using Linux, mplayer needs to be told that the videos have a bit depth of 16 (-bpp 16) to work.
Filenames refer to location, date (dd.mm.yy), and camera-assigned four digit id number.
Top photos from May, 2009
| May 8th, 2009 | On our way to the wedding of one of my oldest friends in rural New Hampshire, we stopped in to see the Ontario Midland, CSX, HRRC, and PVRR, finding very little running. We brought our camera in for a cleaning, and it was returned to us without charge because of an apparently immutable piece of dirt on the sensor, so another railfan trip goes into the record with a great big spot in the upper-right corner of all my photos. | |
| ||
| Canaan, Connecticut | (map) The town of Canaan is the home of the Housatonic Railroad (HRRC). | |
| 22 images | No videos | Marks: HRRC |
| Lyons, New York | (map) Lyons is a few miles South of Geneva, New York, linked by an NS track from the town's ex-Conrail CSX main line to the Finger Lakes Railway. | |
| 3 images | No videos | Marks: CO CSXT NCLX |
| Selkirk, New York | (map) Selkirk is the home of one of CSX's largest, if not particularly accessible, yards, near Albany. | |
| 21 images | No videos | Marks: AOK BNSF CSXT EL |
| Sodus, New York | Sodus is the home of the Ontario Midland. | |
| 33 images | 1 videos | Marks: CSXT OMID |
| Westfield, Massachusetts | (map) Westfield is the home of the Pioneer Valley Railroad, which hosts several ATSF-built CF7 frankenstinian locomotives. | |
| 5 images | No videos | Marks: GACX PVRR |
| May 9th, 2009 | Travelling from southern Vermont to eastern New Hampshire for a wedding, we explored tracks north out of Concord and into Meredith. | |
| ||
| (map) Canterbury is exit 18 of the I-93 in New Hampshire, along the New England Southern. | ||
| 11 images | No videos | Marks: CPHS RL |
| Meredith, New Hampshire | (map) Meredith hosts the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad and is situated fairly far from any other rail lines in central New Hampshire. | |
| 28 images | No videos | Marks: BAR BM LRBX PLRR |
| May 10th, 2009 | Back in Brattleboro, we got up early to see NECR 324 heading through town. | |
| ||
| Brattleboro, Vermont | (map) This town is on the New England Central Railway track near the New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont borders. | |
| 13 images | 1 videos | Marks: CN FEC NS SIRX |
| May 11th, 2009 | Returning home from New Hampshire we stopped for the night in Henrietta, NY. In the morning we chased the LAL from the RGVRRM museum back into Henrietta, then went back to the museum to pick up my sunglasses which I realised in Henrietta I had left on the trunk.... they were present, on the road, and had miraculously not been run over. From there we went over to R&S' tracks, found them shiny but with no indication as to where or how far away a train was, and pushed on to Brockport on the Falls Road, which we followed fruitlessly back to Lockport where we found a CSX local leaving. From there we went to Depew, missed 3 as we approached, and caught 377 and 63. Back in Canada a few minutes later we caught CP 254 at Guelph Junction and watched VIA 87 while our pizza was baked at a nearby pizzeria. | |
|
| ||
| Depew, New York | (map) This is at or near the Buffalo-Depew Amtrak train station in upstate New York, near the Canadian border. | |
| 28 images | 2 videos | Marks: AMTK CSXT DJJX HS IAPX INFX JOSX SP SYRX TILX UTLX WPHX |
| Guelph, Ontario | (map) The city of Guelph is my home town and is just East of Kitchener-Waterloo on the GEXR Guelph sub, and the Ontario Southland Railway/Guelph Junction Railway track, the other end of which is at Guelph Junction. | |
| 12 images | 1 videos | Marks: VIA |
| Guelph Junction, Ontario | (map) Technically Campbellville, Guelph Junction is the junction of the Guelph Junction Railway -- currently serviced by OSR -- the CP Hamilton sub, and the CP Galt sub. It is between Milton and Galt on the CP Galt sub. | |
| 34 images | 1 videos | Marks: ADMX BNBX CN CP GCCX SOO TILX TTDX UTCX |
| Henrietta, New York | Henrietta is a large suburb of Rochester to its immediate south. | |
| 22 images | No videos | Marks: CRGX DMIX FURX GACX GATX LAL SHPX TILX WNYP |
| Industry, New York | Industry is the home of the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum along the LAL. | |
| 32 images | 1 videos | Marks: ERIE GACX GATX INTX LAL LV MDT PC USAX WNYP |
| Lockport, New York | Lockport is the junction of the CSX and the Falls Road just to the east of Buffalo. | |
| 6 images | 1 videos | Marks: CSXT GATX UTLX |
| Medina, New York | Medina is along the Falls Road about half way between Buffalo and Rochester. | |
| 13 images | No videos | Marks: AESX CSXT NYC RPCX |
| May 24th, 2009 | Steve picked me up and we went to Galt to see what we could find in an hour. We caught an eastbound, fruitlessly chased Hagey job, and found some MoW equipment working a tie replacement program at the Highway 24 crossing on the Fergus sub. | |
| ||
| Cambridge, Ontario | (map) Cambridge is the home of Babcock and Wilcox, Toyota, the CP Waterloo sub, the CP Galt sub, the CN ex-Fergus sub and a lot of trains. | |
| 10 images | 1 videos | Marks: BAWX CP TTGX |
| Guelph, Ontario | (map) The city of Guelph is my home town and is just East of Kitchener-Waterloo on the GEXR Guelph sub, and the Ontario Southland Railway/Guelph Junction Railway track, the other end of which is at Guelph Junction. | |
| 23 images | 1 videos | Marks: GATX |