Ventering out to the port of Montreal to pick up a few cars, CN 4912 and IC 9628 are passing a short bridge at the Alexandra Basin.

With a few cars to transfer from Montreal's port to the Pointe-Saint-Charles yard, CN's 4903 and 4731 are crossing over the entrance to the Lachine Canal.

CN's Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher still frequently gets a GP9 assigned, but when one day a pair of them shows up, it's a rare sight indeed, so I was happy to get these two on a sunny November mor... (more)

Urban Packing. On the morning of Monday, May 30, 2023, the Pointe-St-Charles switcher/Canadian National Railway Company 500 with CN 4731 (née-CN 5531, EMD, GP38-2/GR-20b, 4/1973) and CN 49... (more)

Historic Atwater market building serves as a backdrop for the tri-weekly grain delivery to a local client on the Lachine canal bank spur. Most often this is in the hands of a GP-38 duo, but that d... (more)

CN GP9 no. 4115 was on duty on the Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher assignment, serving Ardent Mills on Montreal's Lachine Canal bank, with all the grain cars in tow that the mill had on its tracks.

Seeing one of the last GP9RM in active duties is always a special treat, plus the right conditions for a good portrait. 4115 was originally built as CN 4322 by GMD in 1959, remanufactured in 1984 ... (more)

Paired with GP38-2 no. 4774, CN's 4115 is returning light to Pointe-Saint-Charles yard after leaving loaded grain hoppers at nearby Ardent Mills. The track alongside Montreal's Lachine canal passe... (more)

With CN 4115, a GP9RM makes an appearance on CN's Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher, in charge of delivering grain to Ardent Mills, last freight customer on Montreal's (still partly frozen) Lachine ca... (more)

CN GP40-2W no. 9523 is teamed up with GP38-2 no. 4795 on duty as the Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher, picking up empty grain cars at Ardent Mills on Montreal's Lachine Canal bank.

The ice in Montreal's Old Port is breaking up now in the first days of spring, while a trio of GPs is in charge of the (almost) daily transfer from the port to Pointe-Saint-Charles yard. Behind le... (more)

Picking up empties from Ardent Mills on the Canal Bank spur involves shoving them back to the Pointe-Saint-Charles yard, and that is what this pair of CN geeps is about to do. They would return so... (more)

CN's Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher, CN's nos. 4795 and 9523, is picking up empty grain hoppers from Ardent Mills on the Canal Bank Spur on a Monday in early February.

Service to Ardent Mills, last rail client on Montral's Lachine Canal bank, is a fragile business, constantly threatened to be handed over to the rubber-tired competition. At a time when service wa... (more)

With the crossing of Charlevoix street secured, CN 500 returns from Ardent Mills with a cut of grain empties on CN's Canal Bank spur, heading to the Montreal sub mainline to push back to Pointe-Sa... (more)