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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 October, 2010
October 14th, 2010 | Traveling from my new apartment in Gatineau along the QGRY to west in my first explorative journey in the area, I found two units parked at Masson and a switcher working in the yard at Thurso. I was expecting a train from Ste-Therese as well but it did not materialise and likely came shortly after my departure. The tracks in Gatineau proper along the QGRY Lachute sub have been ripped recently enough that some of the trucks involved are still kicking around. So much for any thoughts of running the O-train across the bridge into Gatineau (same alignment)! | |
Masson, Quebec | Masson is between Gatineau and Thurso on the QGRY Lachute subdivision and is the site of a large rail using facility with two dedicated QGRY engines to service the area. | |
7 images | No videos | Marks: HCRY QGRY |
Plaisance, Quebec | Plaisance is between Montebello and Thurso on the QGRY Lachute subdivision. | |
4 images | No videos | Marks: |
Thurso, Quebec | Thurso is the present eastern end of the western half of Autoroute 50 and is the western most point of the western run of the QGRY out of Ste-Therese (traffic further west is handled by a local road switcher). There is a large lumber facility with its own switcher. | |
7 images | No videos | Marks: TNVR TR |
October 23rd, 2010 | I went down to Cornwall to have dinner with an old friend from high school and ran across a Baldwin electric parked next to Brookdale Ave that I am pretty sure was not there last time I went to the city. | |
Cornwall, Ontario | Cornwall is about 30 km into Ontario from the Quebec border coming out of Montreal on the CN Kingston sub. | |
14 images | No videos | Marks: CSR |
October 27th, 2010 | I had a couple of hours to kill in Montreal in the evening so went over to check the Deux-Montagnes sub, an electric commuter line that runs from Central station through the mountain to the north. | |
Montreal, Quebec | Montreal is the junction point of the CP, AMT, CN. | |
42 images | No videos | Marks: AMT ANT EMU |
October 30th, 2010 | I went to the east of Montreal to do some preliminary exploring finding a yard job working with 4 GP9s and CN 461 heading west, and worked my way along the CP commuter track west out of Windsor station along de Maisonneuve but did not go when any trains were scheduled. I then explored one edge of CP St-Luc yard before running out of time, which is just as well as the weather was quite uncooperative for the whole day. | |
Montreal, Quebec | Montreal is the junction point of the CP, AMT, CN. | |
42 images | 1 videos | Marks: AMT BNBX CGMX CN CP NAHX TCMX |