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Rymal Station Rail Videos
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Hello Everyone,
Thanks for taking a look at my CZcams Channel. It is dedicated to my railfanning videos which are shot mostly around southern Ontario, and my goal is to produce quality content at the rate of about two new videos each month. Hope you like them. Cheers, Peter.
Thanks for taking a look at my CZcams Channel. It is dedicated to my railfanning videos which are shot mostly around southern Ontario, and my goal is to produce quality content at the rate of about two new videos each month. Hope you like them. Cheers, Peter.
Cold Starting an Alco 12-251
A few weeks ago, a unique opportunity presented itself when Trillium Railway made their last trip to St. Catharines to switch two remaining customers on the Grantham spur. The locomotive for this trip, TR RS-18u #1859, developed an oil leak the previous day and this resulted in the train tying down on the spur pending repairs to the unit. The following day was clear but cold and this allowed for a combination railfanning + 'cold start' scene when the mechanic arrived to start the prime move, a 12-cylinder Alco 251B. Normally the railway starts work really early in the morning so this was an unusual chance to watch the crew start up the locomotive up close.
It took several attempts spread over about half an hour, but eventually the engine fired up. Note that after running a while, the engine sounds smoother, more like that distinctive Alco 'burble'. With the air pressure built up, the train then departed southward to the CN Grimsby sub for the last time with droves of railfans waiting for it at Merritton.
I will have a full video on this move in the future, but in short, Trillium (GIO) no longer operates north of mile 8 on the Canal spur, just past ASW Valbruna Steel in Welland. Declining carloads and a relatively long trip to switch about 3-6 cars per day, twice a week, eventually brought about this end of service to Thorold and St. Catharines. I was lucky enough to shoot this line several times in the last year, focusing on the coil car runs to Trenergy, and will upload those videos as well, in time.
As always, thank you for watching!
It took several attempts spread over about half an hour, but eventually the engine fired up. Note that after running a while, the engine sounds smoother, more like that distinctive Alco 'burble'. With the air pressure built up, the train then departed southward to the CN Grimsby sub for the last time with droves of railfans waiting for it at Merritton.
I will have a full video on this move in the future, but in short, Trillium (GIO) no longer operates north of mile 8 on the Canal spur, just past ASW Valbruna Steel in Welland. Declining carloads and a relatively long trip to switch about 3-6 cars per day, twice a week, eventually brought about this end of service to Thorold and St. Catharines. I was lucky enough to shoot this line several times in the last year, focusing on the coil car runs to Trenergy, and will upload those videos as well, in time.
As always, thank you for watching!
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CN Milton Logistics Hub Construction Update February 2024
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Returning to the construction site of CN's Milton Logistics Hub just over a year from my first update, a rare bit of sunshine this winter finds that significant progress has been made so far on the project. In this update we find that CN is now using the new main track alignment for the Halton sub around the property where the Logistics Hub pad tracks will be located. This has been expedited, n...
CN Locals in Southern Ontario Summer 2022
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I haven't done a 'pure-CN' video in a while but CN in the last few years in southern Ontario hasn't been all that interesting, so I thought I'd take a look at some local trains which tend to be much more interesting. Whereas mainline freights are dominated by Gevo's these days, with the odd run-through power, CN's locals usually have something good for power. In 2023 CN leased several BNSF unit...
Western Canada Railfanning Adventure Part 1 - A Day on the CPKC Cranbrook Sub 2023-06-26
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In the summer of 2023, I spent two weeks in Alberta and British Columbia, partly with family and partly for railfanning. After a shorter trip to Alberta last year, I wanted to go back and carry out a more extensive railfan trip through the Rocky mountains and into the Thompson and Fraser river canyons. This video is the first part of a series from this trip and will cover a day spent on CPKC's ...
OSR Move Part II: Kitchener to London on CN L568 || September 25, 2020
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Back in September 2020, OSR faced the challenge of moving their equipment from the recently-ended operation on the Guelph Jct Railway (upon GEXR takeover) to home base at Salford, Ontario. Though only about 50 miles apart as the crow flies, the rail route that would be required to connect the equipment with the railway's own line west of Woodstock would be almost three times that distance and w...
Canadian Prairie Railroading Part II: Chasing Southern Rails Around Moose Jaw, SK Sept-2022
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My railfanning trip to the Canadian prairies in September 2022 was primarily aimed at CP, and to a lesser extent, CN, however I did manage to get a bit of shortline railroading action as well, even if it was a bit unplanned. My goal for this day was to spend the morning on the 4th Ave bridge over CP' s Moose Jaw yard and just shoot whatever I could, but as I was taking some photographs of the d...
Chasing CPKC 133 with SD70ACu #7020 Summer 2023
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It took more than two years, but I finally managed to catch the final of CP's five military-painted SD70ACu locomotives. When I heard that Montreal-Chicago intermodal train #133 had not only this engine, but a KCS unit trailing, I was excited and hoped that the train would not stick to the scheduled pre-dawn timing down the Hamilton sub. Sure enough, the train was sufficiently late that I could...
CN Milton Logistics Hub Construction Update September 2023
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This is a follow-up to my previous video from January 2023 to document the construction progress made during the summer on CN's Milton Logistics Hub located at about mile 40 on the Halton sub, west of the metro Toronto area. This facility will be the third intermodal terminal in the Toronto area operated by CN in addition to Brampton Intermodal Terminal (main Toronto-area facility) and Malport....
Railfanning CN 148 w/ AC44C6M #3309 and Business Cars (Twice!) - Summer 2023
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Recently, CN has sent three of their business cars and AC44C6M #3309 to Halifax on two separate occasions only a few weeks apart. Both trips through southern Ontario occurred on Saturdays and I was able to catch the exec cars both times in good weather; also, both trains had SD70M-2's leading. The first time was interesting, as this move is something not seen everyday, but this was even more in...
Canadian Prairie Railroading Series - Part 1, CP Portage la Prairie MB - Wolseley SK September 2022
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In September 2022, I spent a week railfanning on the Canadian prairies primarily in Saskatchewan but going as far east as Portage la Prairie, MB. In this first part, I spend a morning in PLP catching a number of CN and CP trains in this very busy area which sees the CN and CP transcontinental mainlines cross each other at grade. Mid-day I headed west toward Saskatchewan and managed to spend the...
Railfanning on CPKC's Mactier Sub 6/04/2023
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Being from southern Ontario, anything north of Toronto to me is "up north"; I don't get up that way too often, but a model train show in the area and a nice warm sunny day convinced me and my brother to spend the day trackside along CPKC's Mactier sub, which runs from Toronto (Osler) 127 miles north to its' namesake town. We started the day at CPKC's Vaughan Intermodal Terminal, the railway's m...
Saturday Morning Switching on Trillium Railway 2023-08-05
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Following the recent mass shipment of retired CN Dash-8's to Trillium Railway for delivery to SLM Recycling in Welland, I wanted to make another trip down to the area to see if I could catch the shortline moving some of the engines around. I lucked out on the Saturday following my last video as Trillium was using RS-18u #1859 to carry out the days' work. It had been a while since I was down to ...
Chasing CN 421 With 18 DIT GE's (AKA, Why It's a Bad Idea to Railfan in a Storm!)
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Hello everyone, thanks for having a look at this video. I have not uploaded for quite a while due to other priorities (family, home reno, etc.) but I have some good stuff saved up to put on the channel in the near future. I am hoping to be back to a few videos per month from now on again. One of the more interesting things to occur in my part of the railfanning world recently was a 'funeral tra...
OSR Tillsonburg Turn 6/10/2021
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If given the choice between class 1's and shortline railfanning, I always prefer chasing shortline operation rather than something out on the mainline. While the Class 1's have been going to extreme lengths to cut costs and please shareholders, shortlines have had to carry on with the basic job of serving the customer despite numerous challenges the industry has experienced over the last few ye...
Winter Railroading in Southern Ontario 2021-2022
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Winter is my least-favorite season and I tend not to get trackside much, but I did manage to catch a few interesting things over the winter of 2021-2022. Starting with a fantastic consist on an X302 which included a heritage unit leading and a KCS engine trailing and ending with a M397 that had a couple CSX units trailing, it was sort of an average winter for southern Ontario both in terms of w...
Railfanning JLCX GP35 #3502 on GIO/Trillium in 2022
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Railfanning JLCX GP35 #3502 on GIO/Trillium in 2022
GIO Rail Cayuga Sub Chase - Tillsonburg to St. Thomas, 2022-08-11
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GIO Rail Cayuga Sub Chase - Tillsonburg to St. Thomas, 2022-08-11
Western Canada Railfanning Trip Part 4 - CP Taber Sub Chase
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Western Canada Railfanning Trip Part 4 - CP Taber Sub Chase
CN Milton Logistics Hub Construction Update January 2023
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CN Milton Logistics Hub Construction Update January 2023
Winter Railroading on CN's Dundas Sub 12-26-2022
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Winter Railroading on CN's Dundas Sub 12-26-2022
OSR Cayuga Clipper Salford - Courtland December 23, 2019
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OSR Cayuga Clipper Salford - Courtland December 23, 2019
Gone From Guelph - OSR Equipment Move Part 1 2020-09-24
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Gone From Guelph - OSR Equipment Move Part 1 2020-09-24
Alberta-BC Railfanning Trip August 2022 - Part 3
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Alberta-BC Railfanning Trip August 2022 - Part 3
A Busy Day on the Ontario Southland Railway - October 9, 2020
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A Busy Day on the Ontario Southland Railway - October 9, 2020
New Lease on Life - Railfanning LDSX #4003 on Trillium Railway 11-07-2022
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New Lease on Life - Railfanning LDSX #4003 on Trillium Railway 11-07-2022
Chasing CN L568 Through the Fall Colours - October 22, 2022
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Chasing CN L568 Through the Fall Colours - October 22, 2022
Alcos in the Poconos - Delaware Lackawanna PO-74/75 Chase May 2022
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Alcos in the Poconos - Delaware Lackawanna PO-74/75 Chase May 2022
Railfanning Highlights Summer 2022 - Part 1
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Railfanning Highlights Summer 2022 - Part 1
Alberta-BC Railfanning Trip August 2022 - Part 2
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Alberta-BC Railfanning Trip August 2022 - Part 2
Awesome video and footage
Terrific video !! Your shooting locations were superb choices. You managed to make excellent use of many lineside industrial structures which (IMHO) makes all the difference. Can you tell me whether this is a daily run to Goderich and back ? And maybe what time the crew comes on duty in the am at Stratford ? Thanks a lot. James.
GIO should put gates at the hwy 3 crossing
Great catches awesome chase and nice video
13:11 Farley strong WRRS mechanical bell
This was a great capture. Tell me this R.R. IS still in business. God, I just love these Alcos. So sick. . . R.
Maybe GIO will be receiving the LDSX2001 (GP38)
SUPER good Video👍Thumbs Up 👍Best Greetings😀
Love diesel. Great shot of this start. Joe I give u sub.
White exhaust smoke in diesel engines is always a sign of increased moisture that evaporates. Or it is simply the water vapour produced during the combustion of hydrocarbons and condensed immediately under operating temperature on cold days.
Um.. No not really.. Its incomplete combustion of the fuel.. That much moisture in that it would be locked up
@@disorderlyconduct6011 In the event of incomplete combustion in diesel engines, rust is produced. And this usually turns the smoke black. Therefore, white smoke cannot be incomplete combustion.
@@karstendoerr5378 only when it runs on unicorn pee
@@disorderlyconduct6011 So in my training as a car mechanic, I learned that black smoke in diesel indicates incomplete combustion. So it's different in America from the rest of the world.
@@karstendoerr5378 white smoke is unburned vaporized diesel.
2 cans of happy juice and full fuel she would have fired first shot lol
Or been blown to smithereens?
@@MoonwolfeConsulting 🤣 nah .. Not if you know how to do it
Looks like a DPF Toyota!
Is the white smoke water vapor?
No, it is unburned Diesel fuel. Also known as "cold smoke".
Got out the 'ol liquid glow plugs! :-)
They don't have glow plugs. Direct injection
@@strobx1 liquid = starting fluid
Need one really big can of Cosby sauce 👍👍👌👌
Nice work. We used to get these 1800s up in Havelock all the time back in the day
Havelock as in Lincoln Nebr
There's something very Miyazaki about a solo red, rusty, old loco moving around through the grass quietly pulling a half a dozen cars under white fluffy clouds.
That all gone now
Nice work Peter!
Great Catches
This is a fantastic video. Switching videos are the best
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Thank you very much!!
Good work!
should totaly come by and see the sumas sub near the washington border
Bet you wish you could have stayed a day or two longer!
Thanks for the great coverage! Nice to see a woman brakeman at Moyie. Is that the old CPR water tower in Cranbrook at the far left of the first scene?
What is that Old Saying? "If it ain't Broke, Don't Fix it?" Yeah, that phrase should be taught to ALL railroad companies. Why may you ask? So that they can understand that even "Old and Outdated" units can still be utilized for modern day operations. Companies like Amtrak are Harshly guilty in this. They should have been taught that they should take Units that don't work properly, and get them fixed so they do work properly, so that, in the future, they could be preserved and have the potential to be utilized again. I call it, preserving some of the past to Prepare for the Future.
Thanks very much for capturing this unique railway operation on video. It was featured in Branchline magazine a few years ago but video sure beats still photos. I like the grade and especially the side-of-street running, not to mention your fine captions.
This is great to see this kind of operation. Like it. Awesome video too! ;)
Just wondering. Is this port colborne?
Yes, part of the video is around Feeder and Dain City, but most of it is in Port Colborne (Robin Hood elevator is east of Elm St.)
Outstanding video!! Great use of trackside and drone shots provide an excellent example of rural branchline railroading. Thanks a lot for filming and sharing this.
Do you know which date was this?
Oops, forgot to add this... 7/14/2023.
Awesome video! When is part 2 gonna drop? Lol
If all goes to plan, sometime over the holiday break; I've got it maybe 2/3 edited so far.
Part 2 is up!: czcams.com/video/uZZnJ7REmKs/video.html
was walking on those tracks.. then suddenly the engine appears,.. had to jump into the bush to avoid detention
Awesome 💫 captures 🆕 subscribe 🤝🏽🆗💯🔝
When is Gio Rail going back to Courtland as promoted.
What a difference from the picture at 6:03 and at 6:10.
Will the Wafer Still be on CN 3309
Interesting
I'd Like to see a video of a drone view of the dash 8s in the facility, all in all very neat.
I honestly think these Dash 8s (ESPECIALLY the cowls) should've been saved by either a shortline or museum
"I needs ditch lights" "Holup" *one trip to home depot later* "Bam."
excellent !!!
The BC Rail locomotives deserve better
Great catches!
As much as I am an OSR Fan, It is good to see a Newer setup building. With the 1 locomotive, I hope to see more videos of this railroad and its growth... I think I am going to be a GIO Fan also..
Can I use a few small clips of this in a documentary I'm doing, giving a nod to these units, and a final Farwell
you will be credited
which train show did u go to
Very nice footage documenting the early days of the Canadian Pacific Kansas City CPKC