Confessions of a Train Geek

I stumbled across a Flickr user who is sharing a ton of great photos from the Saskatchewan and Ontario areas. Check out  Kyle Stefanovic...

The New Brunswick Southern Railway is getting yet another engine. Luc Doiron reported that GMTX 203 was in CN's Gordon Yard in Moncton...

Three GATX GP38s are about to arrive at New Brunswick Southern Railway's doorstep. The three were spotted in Portland, Maine on the Pan ...

The CBC is reporting that a receiver has been appointed to look into Industrial Rail Services affairs and try to salvage some work and/or v...

On Tuesday afternoon I was driving west along Wilkes Avenue when I spotted a train heading west as well. I could only see the rear but it s...

The CBC is reporting that the New Brunswick government is aiming to put Industrial Rail Services Inc. into receivership for failure to pay ...

I went out on Thursday (March 29) to shoot the Canadian , as I often do. I decided I had better hustle west on Wilkes because I was cutting ...

J.D. Irving produced this video demonstrating the type of remediation work that will be done in Northern Maine using the TIGER II funding. ...

This is a great video that Craig Pifer took of a steam engine being installed on tracks at the Keizer Station mall in Oregon. The engine it...

Back on February 23 (I told you I have a backlog) I found CN 8847 heading west out of Winnipeg late in the afternoon. This was after seeing ...

Well, OK, maybe that's an exaggeration. But here's five I've seen in the past couple of months. I saw CN 532 rolling south alo...

I was in New Brunswick last week and I had the opportunity for a quick tour of NB Southern's Dever Road shops. Outside the shops, HL...

CN 3104 (and I think CN 3112) were shot in Toronto on April 6, 1980. Presumably this is at the Spadina shops downtown, as a VIA "B...

In my very limited spare time I am going through the (virtual) mounds of photos I have waiting to be catalogued and processed. I found this ...

The engines have arrived in Saint John! Matt aka Saintjohnrailfan caught them coming through Rothesay on CN 406 in this great video.   

HLCX 6315 and HLCX 8144 arrived in Moncton late Thursday night. They are two more SD40-2 engines leased from Helm for NBSR. HLCX 6315 is e...

I honestly thought I had posted about this earlier, but I guess I had just sent it to MB-SKRails and not here. BNSF 2322 is the new BNS...

Here's a couple of Canadian  trains I saw recently. I have to credit David Morris for encouraging me to get out and shoot, because he do...

Reuters is reporting  that CN will purchase 65 new and 96 used locomotives to handle "heavier traffic". The new locomotives, for ...

Late in the afternoon of February 29, I was rolling down Wilkes Avenue in Winnipeg to see if there were any trains about. As it happened, I ...