Vidéos de trains

Un vendredi après-midi passé sur les subdivisions ARPA et Laterrière du chemin de fer Roberval-Saguenay. J'ai déjà visité plusieurs des emplacements montrés dans ce vidéo, mais ils ont été filmés sous des angles différents.

Entre autres, depuis le chemin de la Grande-Anse, on peut voir la jonction de la toute nouvelle voie ferrée qui desservira le port de Grande-Anse. Ce port, qui est un point stratégique de transit et qui manipule un tonnage important annuellement, verra son volume augmenter avec l'apparition de ce nouveau tronçon long de 13 kilomètres. Du minerai de fer et de l'intermodal pourront circuler sur la subdivision ARPA et la nouvelle voie dans un avenir proche. La compagnie qui assurera le transport de ce nouveau tonnage entre le port et l'interchange Canadien National / Roberval-Saguenay à Arvida n'est pas encore déterminée au moment d'écrire ces lignes; ce pourrait être le Canadien National, la Roberval-Saguenay, ou une nouvelle compagnie à être créée qui serait liée à Ports Saguenay. La voie n'est pas encore en opération, mais on devrait y voir de la circulation sous peu, et vous pouvez être assurés que je surveille cela de près.

Deux emplacement que je n'avais jamais filmés avant sont introduits dans le vidéo :

- Un champ agricole près de l'embranchement qui dessert l'usine Proco, une entreprise spécialisée dans les structures métalliques. L'embranchement a conservé l'ancien nom de l'usine, MDF. Des trains de la Roberval-Saguenay vont y livrer des wagons, mais très rarement et aléatoirement. Bien que je me trouvais près de la jonction avec l'embranchement, il n'est pas visible dans le vidéo.

- Le mille 14.25 de la subdivision ARPA, qui se trouve en plein coeur d'une pente extrêmement raide du grand virage en fer à cheval. Le train qui y a été capturé monte la pente avec cinq locomotives dans un grand effort.

Shot at a variety of locations. Most of the locomotives shown are no longer in service.

Vaughan, ON: CN GP40-2L(W) 9408 leads a short eastbound train with a caboose. CN 2016 C-630M and CN 2308 M-636 handle a welded rail train. Then a local with six units goes west.

Islington Avenue, North Toronto: 4 westbound CN trains pass, led by an assortment of MLW and GMD locomotives, all with cabooses

West Toronto Junction: A representative sample of the types of traffic and motive power found on CN, CP, VIA, and GO Transit at the time.

Mimico, ON: Two GO Transit trains pass, first a westbound and then an eastbound.

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CSX's Montreal Subdivision, located in Southern Quebec, was once Conrail's route to Montreal. The trackage from Massena to Huntingdon PQ was once Canadian National's Massena Subdivision. Trackage from Huntingdon up through Valleyfield to Beauharnois and up to Adirondack Jct on CP Rail was once the New York Central's Adirondack Division from Remson NY to Montreal PQ.

Over the years, pieces of both routes would fall away and be abandoned. The Huntingdon to St. Isadore PQ trackage on CN's Massena subdivision would be abandoned and the Massena to Huntingdon track would be sold to Conrail, (who had trackage rights on that track. Established by the NYC in 1961 after the Rutland was abandoned. Trackage rights on Rutland track from Norwood to Malone NY was given up as track was torn up soon after) in 1993. The NYC track south from Huntingdon to Malone NY was abandoned in 1980.

When Conrail was in existance, the trackage from Massena to Adirondack Jct., was called the Montreal Branch. After the Conrail split in 1999, CSX got control of the Montreal Branch. The branch became the Montreal Subdivision in 2002. Then in 2004, CSX put the trackage from just north of Beauharnois PQ to Adirondack Jct. out of service. This was after a couple of incidents between the Peacekeepers at Kanawake and CSX where CSX tried to run trains through the Native Reserve without permission or notification. Conrail, in prior years, had respected this agreement.

Today, CSX's Montreal Subdivision lives on with two daily freights and a handful of locals. Just like years gone by, CN and the NYC used to run a couple of passenger trains and a handful of freights.

Track speeds are much lower from earlier years, but the trains are much heavier and longer today.
In 1954, NYC freight trains ran at 40mph and passenger trains ran at 55mph from Athelstan PQ (Hinchbrooke) to Adirondack Jct. This was even before the St. Lawrence Seaway was built.
Today, only freight trains run at 25mph, with some speed restrictions at certain locations.

Enjoy this little movie of CSX's Montreal Subdivision. Taken on a warm, humid summer July day in 2009.

Continuing coverage of CP MLW's in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.  These scenes are from visits in 1991 and 1993, and there is some overlap with some of my other videos, with about half being new material to YouTube.  A span of just two years brought several changes including locos painted without the Multimark, the disappearance of cabooses and reduction of crew size to three men, the elimination of white flags due to the replacement of timetable/train order operation with track warrants, and the appearance of double stacks and subsequent reduction of the number of trailers on the intermodal trains.  Once again most locations are captioned, although repeated scenes are only captioned once.

Un aperçu des activités du chemin de fer Québec-Gatineau (QGRY), sur la subdivision Trois-Rivières, entre Québec et Trois-Rivières..

Durant ces séances, bien des événements inattendus se sont produits, pour mon grand plaisir, et probablement pour le vôtre également.

D'anciennes prises de 2012 ont été reprises, dans un souci d'être le plus complet possible.

On September 28, 1996 Canadian American Railroad assumed ownership of CP Rail's Sherbrooke Sub from Farnham, Quebec to Sherbrooke.  This video documents CP's last day of operations, starting in Farnham with locals being assembled, the last Newport Sub train departing, the arrival and departure of the last eastbound which we chased to Sherbrooke, followed by the last westbound departure for Montreal.  The CP power remained at Sherbrooke on short term lease to CDAC.

Footage taken on two of my frequent visits to the Welland Canal, in 1995 and 1999 showing CN operations around Thorold before CN sold the cluster of lines to Trillium Railway.  Covered are the Canal, Fonthill, NS&T, Thorold and Townline Spurs, with a glimpse of the Pine St. Lead.  Power is CN GMD SW1200RS units.

Un portrait du Train du Grand Nord qui relie Sept-Îles à Schefferville, du camp vert Esker, et de la sécurité du transport ferroviaire dans le Nord.

QUEBEC CENTRAL RAILWAY – 7 APRIL 2004- Thetford Mines, MP 70.8 QC Vallée Subdivision, with the train arriving from Sherbrooke, with locos GG3 (model GP11), and JMG1 (Model U 23B), doing some ‘switching’ at Thetford, and then leaves for Vallée Jct, with 21 cars.
Then, a few pics taken at the Sawmill in Daaquam (MP 70 Chaudière Sub), with its switcher GS9 (Model S-2)

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This is the Sartigan Railway and this line connects Levis to Vallée-Junction, via Scott, in the province of Quebec.

Link of the crossing: https://www.google.com/maps/@46.49810...