Canadian Railroads > A Lake Ontario north shore winter's day.

The winter of 1994 was bleak and cold out by the tracks around Port Hope, ON. We start off by the east switch of CP's Port Hope siding on the Belleville sub and watch an eastbound powered by an SD40-2 and a GP9. A typical consist at the time for perennially power short Canadian Pacific. Between trains we watch a fox out on the shore ice of Lake Ontario, which is several feet thick. Then an eastbound CN freight on the parallel Kingston sub passes us with an M-636 trailing. Railroads and railfans alike brave the cold weather, and in my case operate a camcorder with fingers numb from the cold and keeping the battery in my warm pocket until the last moment. Are we nuts or what?

...John Reay, Bonarlaw, ON



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/14 22:29 by newtonville150.

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It was nice to see a train without graffiti.

Are we nuts? Yes, however John, that is what makes us who we are!

Mind, you have photographed from one of the colder locations along the north
shore of Lake Ontario. And in twenty years the differences such as a
change in consists; boxcars versus containers and the lack of
graffiti on the rolling stock. Difficult to believe too it has been
twenty years since the friendly caboose brought up the rear of freight
trains on both major Canadian railways.

Bryce Lee
Burlington, Ontario

And I remeber the "New Years Day" at Bayview Jct years ago, darn cold, some hungover others wondering what the heck are we doing here, ah it was fun. Doug

And Bryce, the preponderance of autoparts boxcars on the CP train tells me the Ste Therese was still open when I shot this. As for the graffiti, I on;y noticed one car...a tankcar near the end of the CN train had some graffiti on it.

What a sweet sound those 50footers made, banging away on the frog,, rap music.
and yes for the auto parts cars, miss those most of all.
dj