March 29th, 2003
This was a routine trip to the Bayview Junction area, though we were lucky and caught a foreign unit leading an Automax train up the CP Hamilton sub.
Burlington West, Ontario
(map) This is between Burlington and Aldershot on the CN Oakville sub, where the CN Halton sub merges in.
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A Via train rushes through with the Telus engine, but don't blink - it's got clearance for miles.
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A freight exits the Halton sub (very short clip).
January 17th, 2004
Steve, Chris, Paul, and I headed to Guelph Junction, Milton, Oakville, Burlington West, back to Guelph Junction, and then home in a great circle route of train tracks and hobby shops. The second stop at Guelph Junction yielded an SD90/43MAC doubling the escarpment grade.
January 18th, 2004
We were just going to go catch 153 at Puslinch and come home...
August 8th, 2004
We picked up my mother-in-law at Aldershot, pausing frequently to take pictures...
August 21st, 2004
Laura, Steve, and I went to CN territory to see what we could see. And boy did we see. CSX, BNSF, a business car, and a spiderman engine were just the highlights.
January 22nd, 2006
I wanted to see CN's new GEVOs, numbered in the 2200 series and likely to be forever lost to our various coasts for DPU service. We spent the day at Hamilton West catching 3 BNSF leaders and a CP GEVO leading a CEFX SD90/43MAC on the way home, but never did catch the CN GEVO we knew was supposed to come at some point. At one point during the morning, it had been so long since we had heard or seen any trains that we decided it was time to move West to Paris. As soon as we were committed to highway 403, 394 with its BNSF leader showed up on the scanner and we had to go all the way up to the top of the hill, turn around, and come back down, only managing to catch it at Burlington West.
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CN #394 starts up the Halton sub with 2 BNSF units for power.
May 29th, 2006
I took my first foray into the railroad jungle of the Niagara region on a hunt for Trillium. In hours of searching I caught an S-13 and two cars precisely once, missing them on their street running and never finding the other job in spite of hearing it in Port Colbourne.
March 15th, 2008
After having not seen a train in nearly a month -- see my blog for what's been keeping me entertained in the interim -- I finally got a day out at the tracks. We went to Guelph Junction for CP #245 and CP #247, headed down to Aldershot for CN #421, a GO train, and VIA #72, up to Burlington West for a train whose identity I never did solve, #435, a bunch of GO trains - two of them with the new MP40s leading, VIA #92, CN #556 working at Burlington West, CN #421 impersonating NS #328, and CP #426 just north of the 71.2 detector on the Hamilton sub on the way home.
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A GO train heads for Aldershot and comes back out a few minutes later.
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GO 604, one of the new MP40s, leads an eastbound GO train on the Lakeshore line.
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A westbound comes off the Halton sub as VIA #92 heads up the Oakville sub passing a westbound GO train with a new GO MP40 pushing.
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CN #556 with "The Wrong Guy" star CN 4138 pulls into the wye at Burlington West as CN #435 comes off the Halton sub, an MP40-led GO train heads up the Oakville sub, and CN #431 passes through on its way to the Grimsby sub.
March 22nd, 2008
CN #338 was reported to have a BCOL C44-9W and 3 on-delivery GEVOs. I went down to Bayview to wait for it, but it died at Port Robinson. Instead, I shot new GO MP40s 603 and 605, and around 5 CNs over the course of the morning.
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CN #421 comes off the Halton sub.
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A GO train with MP40 GOT 603 on point heads into Aldershot and back out a few minutes later.
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A CN train heads up the Halton sub.
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Another GO train pulls into Aldershot.
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CN #422 with far too little power heads up the Halton sub.
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A GO train pops out of Aldershot.
June 14th, 2008
We took a sold out 06:25 VIA #652 from Aldershot to Dorval for a family function on the West Island.
