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Viewing Album:  Ontario Trains - Niagara Region - April 2023
 
By:Neil Barratt
Dates:4/2/2023 - 4/21/2023
Album Info:Lots of CN and CP freight action, plus the AMTRAK Maple Leaf, and a face to face encounter with sparkling blue GE 65-Ton switcher MPRX 101.
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CN 3232
Title:  CN 3232
Description:  With the number of local trains decreasing slowly but steadily, I've pretty well resigned myself to chasing the two 'guaranteed' morning trains - either at St. Catharines, or here at Niagara Falls, where CN Train 421 veers off the Grimsby Subdivision onto the Stamford Subdivision at Clifton.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:42:03 PM
Location:  Niagara Falls, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3232(ET44AC) CN 8103(SD70ACe) CN 8014(SD70M-2)
Views:  50   Comments: 0
CN 3232
Title:  CN 3232
Description:  REALLY long CN Train 421 rounds the corner at Stanley Avenue crossing.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:42:12 PM
Location:  Niagara Falls, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3232(ET44AC) CN 8103(SD70ACe) CN 8014(SD70M-2)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
CN 3232
Title:  CN 3232
Description:  CN Train 421 winds onto the Stamford Sub at Clifton.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:42:17 PM
Location:  Niagara Falls, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3232(ET44AC) CN 8103(SD70ACe) CN 8014(SD70M-2)
Views:  63   Comments: 0
CN 3232
Title:  CN 3232
Description:  CN Train 421 winds onto the Stamford Sub at Clifton.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:42:27 PM
Location:  Niagara Falls, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3232(ET44AC) CN 8103(SD70ACe) CN 8014(SD70M-2)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
CN 3232
Title:  CN 3232
Description:  Big blue sky shot of CN Train 421 at Clifton.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:42:41 PM
Location:  Niagara Falls, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3232(ET44AC) CN 8103(SD70ACe) CN 8014(SD70M-2)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
AMTK 87
Title:  AMTK 87
Description:  About 10 minutes after CN Train 421 comes the AMTRAK Maple Leaf.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:42:50 PM
Location:  Niagara Falls, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 87(P42DC)
Views:  43   Comments: 0
AMTK 87
Title:  AMTK 87
Description:  About 10 minutes after CN Train 421 comes the AMTRAK Maple Leaf.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:43:00 PM
Location:  Niagara Falls, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 87(P42DC)
Views:  42   Comments: 0
AMTK 87
Title:  AMTK 87
Description:  The AMTRAK Maple Leaf - not far from its destination at Niagara Falls Station - before heading across to the USA.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:43:06 PM
Location:  Niagara Falls, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 87(P42DC)
Views:  38   Comments: 0
AMTK 87
Title:  AMTK 87
Description:  Big blue sky shot of AMTRAK Maple Leaf at Niagara Falls. Man, these locomotives are really starting to show their age, and years of toil. This one was built in 1997.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:43:13 PM
Location:  Niagara Falls, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 87(P42DC)
Views:  47   Comments: 0
CN 3232
Title:  CN 3232
Description:  CN Train 421 was a little earlier than usual this morning, making for some nice pics in the near-perfect sunshine at Port Robinson yard.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:43:26 PM
Location:  Port Robinson, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3232(ET44AC) CN 8103(SD70ACe) CN 8014(SD70M-2)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
CN 3232
Title:  CN 3232
Description:  Port Robinson yard. Train 421.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:43:37 PM
Location:  Port Robinson, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3232(ET44AC) CN 8103(SD70ACe) CN 8014(SD70M-2)
Views:  43   Comments: 0
CN 3232
Title:  CN 3232
Description:  CN Train 421 was really long today, necessitating this switching move at Biggar Road. The train has pulled all of the way out of the yard, almost 2 km, in order to push back onto the inner yard tracks.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:43:47 PM
Location:  Port Robinson, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3232(ET44AC) CN 8103(SD70ACe) CN 8014(SD70M-2)
Views:  55   Comments: 0
MPRX 101
Title:  MPRX 101
Description:  Catch of the Day is this well-hidden GE 65-Ton switcher. I'm not sure that it still works local industry or not. I haven't seen it actually moving for over 4 years.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:43:54 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Scenic
Locomotives:  MPRX 101(65Tonner )
Views:  60   Comments: 0
MPRX 101
Title:  MPRX 101
Description:  SPARKLING!
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:44:02 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  MPRX 101(65Tonner )
Views:  68   Comments: 0
MPRX 101
Title:  MPRX 101
Description:  Tucked away on an industrial spur.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:44:13 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  MPRX 101(65Tonner )
Views:  45   Comments: 0
MPRX 101
Title:  MPRX 101
Description:  Looking due west at industry tracks, now truncated, that used to go directly into Welland before the Canal re-routing in the 1970s.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:44:24 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  MPRX 101(65Tonner )
Views:  48   Comments: 0
TRRY 1859
Title:  TRRY 1859
Description:  You could hear a pin drop at the formerly busy Rusholme Road metal fabrication industry - now a lonely lumber yard.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:44:33 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  TRRY 1859(RS18)
Views:  58   Comments: 0
LDSX 7920
Title:  LDSX 7920
Description:  One of the new GIO switchers got to rest over the weekend, with JLCX 3502 and unknown caboose, at the Welland yard.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:44:43 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  LDSX 7920(SW900) JLCX 3502(GP35)
Views:  68   Comments: 0
LDSX 7920
Title:  LDSX 7920
Description:  Looking west from Phillips Road at 7920, 3502, and caboose.
Photo Date:  4/2/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:44:51 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  LDSX 7920(SW900) JLCX 3502(GP35)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
LDSX 7920
Title:  LDSX 7920
Description:  On the way to CP Welland yard, you pretty well have to pass by the small GIO Industries yard -where you never know which of their odd assortment of locomotives (and maybe even a caboose) will be resting.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:44:59 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  LDSX 7920(SW900) TRRY 1859(RS18)
Views:  52   Comments: 0
LDSX 7920
Title:  LDSX 7920
Description:  GIO switcher #7920, venerable ALCO #1859, and a still unidentified caboose in GIO colours.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:45:10 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  LDSX 7920(SW900) TRRY 1859(RS18)
Views:  63   Comments: 0
CP 3129
Title:  CP 3129
Description:  Soon after arriving at CP Welland yard, the trains got busy. First some switching action.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:45:19 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 3129(GP38-2)
Views:  51   Comments: 0
CP 3129
Title:  CP 3129
Description:  Switching action at CP Welland yard.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:45:29 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 3129(GP38-2)
Views:  61   Comments: 0
CP 3129
Title:  CP 3129
Description:  Switching action at CP Welland yard. I thought this would be it for the day as the train disappeared into the yard, but I was in for a nice surprise when I ventured to the west end of the yard.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:45:37 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 3129(GP38-2)
Views:  61   Comments: 0
CP 8885
Title:  CP 8885
Description:  Way further west from where the switcher was working I came across what I thought was a resting locomotive set. But within minutes the engines perked up, and I was treated to some fine action in brilliant sunshine. Special treat was the third locomotive - a dazzling red SD40-2F rebuild. WOW!
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:45:45 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8885(ES44AC) CP 8152(AC4400CWM) CP 9014(SD40-2F)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
CP 8885
Title:  CP 8885
Description:  Nice...
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:45:54 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8885(ES44AC)
Views:  53   Comments: 0
CP 8152
Title:  CP 8152
Description:  Nicer...
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:46:04 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8152(AC4400CWM)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
CP 9014
Title:  CP 9014
Description:  BOOM!! How cool is that? It's even got what looks like a 'Draper Taper' contour behind the cab. And 'TrainMaster' like wraparound rear air grills assemblage!
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:46:11 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9014(SD40-2F)
Views:  102   Comments: 0
CP 9014
Title:  CP 9014
Description:  OK. I'm totally in love! (Don't tell Natalie!). What a beautiful beast! Looks like a cross between a Draper Taper and an F40PH. The GMD SD40-2F is a 3,000 horsepower C-C diesel locomotive built by General Motors Diesel. It was fundamentally an SD40-2 in a cowl unit with full-width body. A total of 25 units were built solely for the Canadian Pacific Railway. They were delivered in 1988 and 1989, after the end of production of the regular SD40-2.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:46:18 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9014(SD40-2F)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
CP 3129
Title:  CP 3129
Description:  One more pass by the switching action near the yard office as the switcher re-emerges from deep in the yard.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:46:26 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 3129(GP38-2)
Views:  66   Comments: 0
CN 3262
Title:  CN 3262
Description:  CN Port Robinson yard, where the crew has just mounted #3262.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:46:35 PM
Location:  Port Robinson, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3262(ET44AC) CN 3209(ET44AC) CN 3086(ET44AC)
Views:  88   Comments: 0
CN 3262
Title:  CN 3262
Description:  I was going to stay put at Port Robinson yard, but realized the train was more likely to depart the yard entirely, so I got to Cambridge in time for some fine pics.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:46:43 PM
Location:  Port Robinson, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3262(ET44AC) CN 3209(ET44AC)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
CN 3262
Title:  CN 3262
Description:  CN Train 562 at Cambridge.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:46:51 PM
Location:  Port Robinson, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3262(ET44AC) CN 3209(ET44AC)
Views:  66   Comments: 0
CN 3262
Title:  CN 3262
Description:  I lucked out again when Train 562 worked briefly at Southern Yard, giving me a chance to get over to Yager - where the train enters the big wye.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:46:59 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3262(ET44AC) CN 3209(ET44AC)
Views:  66   Comments: 0
CN 3262
Title:  CN 3262
Description:  Big blue sky shot of Train 562 curling onto the Yager wye, after a quick change of freight cars at Southern Yard.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:47:09 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Signal
Locomotives:  CN 3262(ET44AC) CN 3209(ET44AC)
Views:  60   Comments: 0
CN 3262
Title:  CN 3262
Description:  CN Train 562 one last time, at Miller Road overpass, and now on the CP Hamilton Subdivision heading west towards CP Welland yard.
Photo Date:  4/7/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:47:16 PM
Location:  Welland, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3262(ET44AC) CN 3209(ET44AC)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
CN 2275
Title:  CN 2275
Description:  CN Train 421 arrives at Port Robinson yard.
Photo Date:  4/8/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:47:24 PM
Location:  Port Robinson, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2275(ES44DC) CN 5733(SD75I) CN 8943(SD70M-2)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
CN 2275
Title:  CN 2275
Description:  Train 421 comes to a stop outside the yard office.
Photo Date:  4/8/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:47:33 PM
Location:  Port Robinson, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2275(ES44DC) CN 5733(SD75I) CN 8943(SD70M-2)
Views:  70   Comments: 0
CN 2275
Title:  CN 2275
Description:  So long Train 421 - now Train 562 with a fresh crew - as it pushes back to do some yard work.
Photo Date:  4/8/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 1:47:44 PM
Location:  Port Robinson, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2275(ES44DC) CN 5733(SD75I) CN 8943(SD70M-2)
Views:  65   Comments: 0

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