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Images: These pictures are not censored for quality. What one person considers a bad or useless picture may be exactly what someone else is looking for. I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.
Videos: These videos are very big, which is why railfanning videos are so rare on line. As long as Windows Media Player says "Connecting" it is working, even it if appears to be taking a very long time. It says "Connecting" until it has finished downloading the video. Please be patient. If you are unable to play these videos with Windows Media player, a problem which exists with some versions of Media Player and (sometimes) with Internet Explorer versions lower than 6, I strongly recommend the use of Quicktime if it is available. If you are using Linux, mplayer needs to be told that the videos have a bit depth of 16 (-bpp 16) to work.
Filenames refer to location, date (dd.mm.yy), and camera-assigned four digit id number.
Top photos from May, 2003
| May 1st, 2003 | In the afternoon, I was heading to a store in downtown Guelph and saw GEXR 431 travelling through as I approached the tracks. Later in the evening, I went to a friend's house who had just moved trackside and we watched trains 88 and 89, a Via and an Amtrak, go through the city around 10:30 pm. | |
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| Guelph, Ontario | (map) The city of Guelph is my home town and is just East of Kitchener-Waterloo on the GEXR Guelph sub, and the Ontario Southland Railway/Guelph Junction Railway track, the other end of which is at Guelph Junction. | |
| 10 images | 1 videos | Marks: CN CNA CNIS CNLX CNWX |
| May 2nd, 2003 | My girlfriend and I were heading to Hemlock Junction, as it was having a retirement (closing) sale, and a quilt store for her. On the way, the expressway passed us on the CP Galt sub and on the way back, we caught a couple of trains climbing the hill up toward Guelph Junction. | |
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| Milton, Ontario | (map) This is where the CN Halton and the CP Galt subs cross eachother, though there is no junction. | |
| 66 images | No videos | Marks: ACFX ADMX CCBX CN CP CRDX CRGX DACX DME ETTX FURX GOT GROX GVSR HS IC IMRL LNAC NAHX NDYX NOKL NRLX OAR PLCX PROX PTLX ROIX RTCX SHPX SLGG SOO SP THB TILX TLCX TSE TTZX UNPX UP WC YKR |
| May 5th, 2003 | My girlfriend and I took a long distance trip to Newtonville, where the CP Belleville and the CN Kingston subs are more or less side by side for several kilometres. We stayed there much of the day and managed to catch both a GO unit in freight service and three CN business cars heading to Montreal. | |
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| Newtonville, Ontario | (map) This community is about an hour East of Toronto. Through the area the CP Belleville sub from Toronto to Montreal, and the CN Kingston sub on the same routes run parallel. | |
| 191 images | 3 videos | Marks: ACFX ADMX AMCX AOK BCOL BN BNSF BRAN CEFX CGLX CGTX CN CNA CNIS CNLX CNWX CP CVC DTTX DUPX DWC ENGX ETTX FEC GACX GATX GOT GPLX GRPX GTW HESR HPIX IBT IC LW MLLX NAHX NAMX NATX NCIX NCLX NKCR NOKL NRLX NS PROX RBOX RS RTMX SHPX SLGG TBOX TCMX TILX TR TTAX TTGX UTLX VTTX WC |
| May 6th, 2003 | I headed down to Guelph Junction during the afternoon to get out of the house. In the evening, my girlfriend went to downtown Guelph to get some ice cream. Naturally I had to watch VIA 89 come through before going home. | |
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| Guelph Junction, Ontario | (map) Technically Campbellville, Guelph Junction is the junction of the Guelph Junction Railway -- currently serviced by OSR -- the CP Hamilton sub, and the CP Galt sub. It is between Milton and Galt on the CP Galt sub. | |
| 25 images | No videos | Marks: CP ETTX OSRX SP TTGX XPWX |
| May 10th, 2003 | OSR was moving a large transformer on a heavy-duty flatbed from the ABB plant at the North end of Guelph across the street to the interchange track with GEXR. | |
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| Guelph, Ontario | (map) The city of Guelph is my home town and is just East of Kitchener-Waterloo on the GEXR Guelph sub, and the Ontario Southland Railway/Guelph Junction Railway track, the other end of which is at Guelph Junction. | |
| 72 images | 1 videos | Marks: ACFX OSRX QTTX |
| May 18th, 2003 | This was another of my railfanning trips of no particular consequence. | |
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| Guelph Junction, Ontario | (map) Technically Campbellville, Guelph Junction is the junction of the Guelph Junction Railway -- currently serviced by OSR -- the CP Hamilton sub, and the CP Galt sub. It is between Milton and Galt on the CP Galt sub. | |
| 150 images | No videos | Marks: ACFX ADMX AMC AOK BM BN BNSF CCLX CEFX CERX CGEX CGTX CHTT CHVX CNW CP CPAA CPDX CRDX CRLE CSXT DCTX DTTX ECQX ECUX EJE ETTX GACX GFSX GMRC GOT GVSR IBT LVRC LW MILX MP NAHX NCHX NCTX NOKL NRLX OCPX PLCX PSPX QCCX QGRY SAMX SHPX SIRX SLGG SOO TCWR TR TTGX TTZX UP WW YKR |
| May 19th, 2003 | This was a routine railfanning trip to the Bayview Junction/Aldershot area. | |
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| Aldershot, Ontario | (map) This is the region between the (abandonned) Burlington West train station and Bayview Junction. | |
| 52 images | 4 videos | Marks: AGPX AMCX CGLX CGTX CN CNA CNIS CNLX CR DCLX DWC GATX HPIX MP PROX QTTX SLGG SOO UTLX VIA |
| Bayview Junction, Ontario | (map) This is where the CN Oakville, CN Grimsby, and CN Dundas subdivisions meet at a great big wye, beside which is the CP Hamilton sub. This location encompasses CN Bayview Junction, Hamilton West, and Hamilton Junction. | |
| 15 images | No videos | Marks: CN |
| Hamilton, Ontario | (map) Hamilton Ontario is an industrial region on the tip of lake Ontario. | |
| 4 images | No videos | Marks: CP SOO |
| May 23rd, 2003 | I went to the station to pick up my housemate, who was returning from a rail trip to Montreal. | |
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| Guelph, Ontario | (map) The city of Guelph is my home town and is just East of Kitchener-Waterloo on the GEXR Guelph sub, and the Ontario Southland Railway/Guelph Junction Railway track, the other end of which is at Guelph Junction. | |
| 4 images | No videos | Marks: VIA |
| May 29th, 2003 | A junction of junctions, this trip took me to both Bayview and Guelph Junctions. | |
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| Bayview Junction, Ontario | (map) This is where the CN Oakville, CN Grimsby, and CN Dundas subdivisions meet at a great big wye, beside which is the CP Hamilton sub. This location encompasses CN Bayview Junction, Hamilton West, and Hamilton Junction. | |
| 78 images | 2 videos | Marks: CC CCLX CN CNA CVC DTI ETTX FTTX GCFX IC ICG KCS NOKL NW PROX SP TTGX UNPX VIA |
| Guelph Junction, Ontario | (map) Technically Campbellville, Guelph Junction is the junction of the Guelph Junction Railway -- currently serviced by OSR -- the CP Hamilton sub, and the CP Galt sub. It is between Milton and Galt on the CP Galt sub. | |
| 30 images | No videos | Marks: CP DTTX OSRX RTTX SOO TTAX |