Confessions of a Train Geek

I found a very interesting web site on Minnesota's railroads, the Minnesota Regional Railroads Association . There are a lot of railways...

Here's a few photos from the past week or so. First off, here's a train parked on the north track of the CN Rivers subdivision aro...

Sometimes on a train-watching outing, I get some decent photographs but nothing really special . Sometimes I get nothing but duds . Occasio...

A friend on Google+ pointed me to  http://northeastfoto.com , a community of photographers in the Northeast USA. They have a lot of great t...

As I continue taking photographs, I'm learning more about post-processing. In the film age, post-processing was done in the darkroom w...

I shot CN 347 and CN 199 in the past few days. First, here's CN 347 heading out of Winnipeg, throwing a bit of snow. CN 8930 was the...

Dave Dineen posted some great photos of freshly-painted HLCX 6200 in Saint John. Please  view his album . UPDATE: He also posted a video...

I was sad to hear that the historic foundry in Sackville, New Brunswick was destroyed in a serious fire on Wednesday. The  CBC reported  tha...

Here it is! I don't see the chevrons on the rear, nor the usual bay windows that NB Southern uses, but otherwise it looks complete. I...

No, not a joke, although it sure sounds like the punchline for one. Apparently the problem of people riding the tops of trains in Indonesia ...

I was out at noon on Monday to shoot the Canadian  and I happened to catch a meet. As I arrived, I noticed an eastbound container train roll...

Friday the 13th was... interesting. I went out to the CN Symington area in the afternoon to see what was going on. CN 8896 was putting tra...

Jody Robinson shot HLCX 6318 on the eastbound freight train on Sunday evening, January 15. It sure looks cold and dark there! It looks l...

I caught the daily Winnipeg-Emerson train this afternoon, pretty much by accident. I'm glad I did, because the train had three  engine...

I was heading home on Thursday the 12th when I heard the detector at mile 10 go off. "CN detector, mile one zero Rivers subdivisio...

It has taken a long time, but winter has finally arrived in Winnipeg  Winterpeg. After a couple of weeks of near- or above-zero days, th...

HLCX 6318 was in Moncton, NB overnight. It was apparently supposed to go on CN 406 yesterday (Tuesday) but there was an issue and it had to ...

Several people went out on January 8 to shoot HLCX 6200 as part of train CN 406 en route to Saint John. First, Matt aka Saintjohnrailfan ...

Later on in the day of January 5, after my earlier railfanning that day , I headed out to Diamond on my way home. Nothing much seemed to be ...

I wanted to shoot the VIA Rail Canadian  on Thursday, January 5. I decided to shoot it at Portage Junction to get a more-or-less head-on sho...