This shot is just plain Loonie! The Huron Central's almost-daily run passes the massive monument representing Canada's 1-dollar coin in the town of Echo Bay. This tiny town is home t... (more)
Three matching ex-CN geeps lead 49 cars filled with product from Essar Steel Algoma
Canadian Pacific 9001 builds (and later leads) HCRY train 912 for the 179 mile journey to Sudbury.
With a CP unit thrown in for good measure today, 912 prepares to depart for Sudbury. Meanwhile, on the freshly reballasted old main, the switcher waits to retrieve a cut of empty steel cars and ma... (more)
Soo-to-Sudbury freight 912 rolls across the fields of Bar River. On the head end is a cut of pulpwood logs for the paper mill at Espanola, which are loaded at our yard in Sault Ste. Marie.
Officially, it's known as "SMSU." To the guys up in the cab, though, it's simply "802 East," and to the rest of us on the railroad, it's usually referred to by its old number of 912. Either way, i... (more)