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Date: March 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National/Amtrak Description: Just as a CN train passes the VIA station, the daily Amtrak/VIA train rolls in. |
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Date: March 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Amtrak/VIA Description: After picking up and dropping off passengers, the daily VIA #97, using Amtrak equipment, starts to accelerate on its way to Niagara Falls. |
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Date: March 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Norfolk Southern Description: NS C40-9W #9409 leads an unusual lineup: two locomotives, one car. |
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Date: March 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: VIA Rail/Amtrak Description: Passengers load and unload as the daily Amtrak/VIA train makes it's stop in St. Catharines. |
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Date: April 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: A CN freight train heads west over the interlocking bridges that cross the Welland Canal. Directly behind the bridges are the Welland Canal Flight Locks, operated by the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority. |
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Date: April 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: A CN GP9u, #7054, runs long hood forward and light through Merritton. |
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Date: April 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: An excavator does some digging in the ballast, then piles what it takes into the air-dump gondolas on the track next to it. |
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Date: April 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: CN construction crews work on the Grimsby Sub. The north track was removed for a stretch, and crews lowered the ballast so that the track would be able to accept double-stacked containers without hitting the Merritt Street overpass (where I'm standing to take this photo). |
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Date: April 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: Looking like Atlas Flex-Track, a large section of the Grimsby Sub north track was removed and placed on top of the siding next to it. |
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Date: April 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: Looking east at crews working to lower the north track of the Grimsby Sub. The bridge in the photo is the Merritt Street Bridge. The track is being lowered so that double stack containers will fit under the bridge. |
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Date: April 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: At the west end of track relining, this is where the track was separated. |
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Date: April 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: A CN freight train, led by Dash 8-40CM #2412, passes Merritton Yard and the ongoing construction. |
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Date: June 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: Some of the near complete trackwork being done at the small Merritton Yard. |
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Date: June 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: Some of the near complete trackwork being done at the small Merritton Yard. |
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Date: June 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: Some of the near complete trackwork being done at the small Merritton Yard. |
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Date: June 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National Description: Some of the near complete trackwork being done at the small Merritton Yard. |
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Date: September 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Amtrak/VIA Rail Canada Description: Amtrak #268 pulls 5 coaches approaching the Welland Canal Flight Locks in St. Catharines, Ontario, on a sunny September day. |
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Date: September 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Amtrak Description: An Amtrak train passes over the Welland Canal Flight Locks after having to wait a few minutes for the M/V Cartierdoc to enter the first lock. |
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Date: October 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Amtrak Description: An Amtrak train heads around a curve just past the Welland Canal Flight Locks, heading for Niagara Falls. |
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Date: October 2001 Location: St. Catharines, Ontario Railroad: Canadian National/Trillium Description: The converging tracks and turnout of a track switch near CN's mainline and Trillium's Merritton Yard. |