The weed killer treks eastbound through Hurkett passing a tamper/broom outfit tied down in the backtrack.

After a lengthy hit at Bowker for hotshot 119, CP's weed sprayer departs the siding and continues doing its thing eastward.

An awesome set of power idles in the yard at Schreiber in between summer work train assignments.

A few old relics look on as a fresh blanket of snow pounds down on Northwestern Ontario. Veteran SD40-2 5743 has just setoff a 5 car consist for the tailend of an upcoming CWR movement (white cabo... (more)

A double consist winter work train pulls into the siding at Mackenzie to setout the first part of its consist. The first 5 cars (complete with white caboose) belonging to the tailend of an upcomin... (more)

A pair of vets lead a dead head move of CP’s spray train out of Thunder Bay onto the Nipigon Sub.

Sure do miss the old yellow ones, but I won’t turn my nose up at any active caboose in this day and age! Engineering service white CP 420991 along with some colourfully graffiti’d OCS equipmen... (more)

Backdropped by downtown Port Arthur, a short ballast train departs Thunder Bay eastbound onto the Nipigon Sub to dump ballast for some springtime tamping and curve rehab projects.

Far from its glory days, but a welcome trip down memory lane as candy cane stripes and a multimark appear from the Northern Ontario boreal forest and the howl of an SD40-2 cresting Bowker Hill wit... (more)

Mixture of old and new boarding car equipment arrives in Current River off the Nipigon Sub.

Veteran SD40-2 leads CP’s weed sprayer express away from Lake Superior’s Black Bay and is about to pass under the Trans-Canada westbound on the Nipigon Subdivision.

Small train, big country. An SD40-2 assigned to CP's weed sprayer train rockets up the slight grade westbound along the more tangent portion of the Nipigon Subdivision and is approaching Hurkett.

An SD40-2 still earns its keep hauling a mixture of new and old boarding car equipment westbound on the Nipigon Sub. Seen here crossing over the Black Sturgeon River alongside the remnants of the ... (more)

With the spectacular Red Rock Cuesta providing the backdrop, CP 5039 leads a Nipigon Sub boarding car movement westward through the twists and turns along the mouth of the mighty Nipigon River and... (more)

Crew of the Nipigon Sub Work train starts up two old workhorses, and for about 15 minutes they filled downtown Schreiber with exhaust.