All is quiet at ONR's headquarters in Englehart as a handful of units idle away at the shops under an awesome show of northern lights.

ONT 2104 and ONT 1800 lead 308 through Boston Creek on their trip to Englehart.

ONR, Ontario Northland FP7a, Caterpillar powered 2002 with a southbound Northlander at, mp112 on the Temagami sub , New Liskeard, Ontario. September 15, 1999. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

ONR, Ontario Northland GP9 1605, at Cochrane, Ontario. September 13, 1999. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

ONR, Ontario Northland Caterpillar powered FP7Au 2001. It is southbound with the Northlander at Swastika, Ontario September 20, 1996. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo The station and the signals are a... (more)

Enveloped in remote Northern Ontario forest, an ONR ballast extra makes it's presence known with the venerable GMD SD40-2 putting on quite the performance. Just like when the '40 was fresh out of ... (more)

The Polar Bear Express for Moosonee pulls into the station at Cochrane.

Ontario Northland 1808 leads train 161 The Northlander out of Toronto Union Station at 12:30pm. As of this date the train was operating only to Cochrane, ON.

A classic SD40-2 leads northbound train 113 from North Bay to Englehart as they prepare to pick up one car from the siding at Cobalt. ONR deactivated almost all their signals in the early 2000s, b... (more)

Rising above the provincial line between Quebec and Ontario, and also Ontario Northland’s Kirkland Lake Subdivision, stands the 1729’ Mont Chaudron (or Mount Cheminis). Formed in the most re... (more)

Nicknamed the “Burma Road” by train crews, Ontario Northland’s Kirkland Lake Subdivision doesn’t have a straight or flat mile. The Kirkland Lake Sub was built in the early 1900’s as ... (more)

The working crew of plow 560 poses with Tim Hortons in hand at Kapuskasing.

ONR plow no. 560 catches some late rays of sun as it rolls through Hallebourg.

ONR's wedge no. 560 has the nose down and breaks up ice buildup west of Kapuskasing, ON. It was rumored that this specific plow hadn’t been used in 6 years, and only got used because the snow fi... (more)

Passing the Ontario Northland bunkhouse, freight 313 arrives from Cochrane while off to the side CN 5446 and CN 2508 sit parked awaiting to come on duty later that afternoon. The power from the in... (more)