Trackside Treasure

Here are a couple of grain boxcar train consists from 1982, when the use of grain boxcars was beginning to decline: A westbound CP train of...

Boxcars were the freight car of choice for grain transportation from the early 1900's until they were replaced by gravity-discharge al...

Here are a couple of additional Cavalier consists that tie together previous posts about these trains and Christmas, since these two consist...

The Cavaliers featured interesting and sometimes crazy consists, with a caveat - one had to be nocturnal to enjoy them. With a leisurely sch...

Nineteen years ago this month, massive cuts to VIA's national network included the overnight trains on the Kingston Sub, the Cavaliers....

This is undoubtedly a season of peace and goodwill, which pervades our greetings to each other in our daily activities. On the street, in s...

Not only is railway work hazardous, round-the-clock-and unpredictable, it's also subject to the adherence to numbers books of rules suc...

Elvis sang "I'll have a blue Christmas..." How about a VIA blue-and-yellow Christmas? Bing Crosby sang "I'm dreaming ...

Looking for more Churchill train photos, I found several of Thompson to Winnipeg Train No 90, at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Here's on...