OCS Train Videos

10/26/2026

This is a video filmed from October 13, 1995 to December 30, 1995 from Southern Ontario at famed Bayview Junction in Burlington, Ontario on CN’s Oakville Subdivision. Also, trains are shown on CP’s Galt Subdivision at Wolverton and at Aberdeen Yard in Hamilton on the Hamilton Subdivision. As well as a CP local is captured on the Goderich Subdivision returning from Guelph, as it heads to Guelph Jct. Plus CN trains are filmed on the CN Dundas Subdivision in Paris and cars are seen being rolled over the hump at CN’s MacMillan Yard in Toronto. Also a meet between two passenger trains is captured at Mosborough, which is a located at Mile 53.9 on the CN Guelph Subdivision. One is the International, which operated between Chicago and Toronto utilizing both VIA Rail and Amtrak equipment. As well, the video documents the day that several old CN MofW boxcars were scrapped in Kitchener. These 40-foot boxcars had sat across from the VIA Rail station for many years and were used as storage cars by CN.

This is a video filmed from October 13, 1995 to December 30, 1995 f...

10/23/2026

A GIO Rail crew with LDSX GP9RM 4100 is pictured beginning it’s day by switching the large HOPA Niagara Port Services facility in Thorold, Ontario on the Coniagas Spur. GP9RM 4100 is former CN 4100. July 17, 2026.

10/15/2026

This is a video filmed entirely on October 13, 1995 from Southern Ontario at famed Bayview Junction in Burlington, Ontario on CN’s Oakville Subdivision. Several CN Rail and CP Rail trains are captured passing through the junction that day with now vintage GMD and MLW power, including operating on locals and work trains complete with still active cabooses. Also Amtrak’s Maple Leaf is filmed heading to Niagara Falls and onto New York as well as VIA Rail passenger trains.

This footage was captured by former CN employee, railfan, videographer, photographer and model railroader Al Wendt and is copyrighted and used with permission.

This is a video filmed entirely on October 13, 1995 from Southern O...

10/13/2026

CN SD40u 6020, SD40-2 5379 and SD40-2(W) 5250 are pictured switching another cut of cars to be sorted over the hump at CN’s MacMillan Yard in Vaughan, Ontario. June 20, 2026.

10/02/2026

This is a video filmed from September 30, 1995 to October 7, 1995. The video begins with capturing mainline railway action from Southern Ontario at famed Bayview Junction in Burlington where some morning CN trains are filmed. From there the footage shifts to CP’s Aberdeen Yard in Hamilton where several brand new CP AC4400CW’s are seen having just been delivered from the GE plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. These units were part of an order numbered 9500-9582 that were delivered from August-October 1995 and were painted in the duel flags paint scheme. The video continues with scenes on CP’s Galt Subdivision at Guelph Jct. and then a return to Bayview Junction a week later as well as the town of Paris on CN’s Dundas Subdivision.

This footage was captured by former CN employee, railfan, videographer, photographer and model railroader Al Wendt and is copyrighted and used with permission.

This is a video filmed from September 30, 1995 to October 7, 1995. ...

09/30/2026

CN GP9 Slug 236 and GP9RM 7256 are viewed sorting cars at CN’s MacMillan Yard in Vaughan, Ontario. The view is from the Highway #7 overpass. June 20, 2026.

09/29/2026

This is a video filmed from September 9, 1995 to September 30, 1995. The video begins with capturing mainline railway action from Southern Ontario at Hamilton West in Hamilton where several CN trains are filmed on the Dundas Subdivision. The footage continues on CN’s Guelph Subdivision at Kitchener where CN train 431 is filmed climbing the grade out of the city. Then on September 11, a morning westbound is seen at the same location with CN extra 9595 west moving preserved 4-6-4 “Hudson” class steam locomotive 5700 from the previous weekend CN Family Day events at MacMillan Yard in Vaughan, Ontario where it was displayed. The vintage steamer was returning to its home in St. Thomas at the historic Elgin County Railway Museum across the Guelph Subdivision to London. The train is filmed at Kitchener, west of New Hamburg crossing the highway to Stratford and then at the historic Stratford station. At Stratford, 5700 was stopped at the station beside local CN job 516. Here, the steam engine received some maintenance before continuing west. It also allowed our videographer, Al Wendt, to tour the cab and even take a couple minutes to sit in the engineer’s seat before the train departs the festival city.

The video footage continues of a CN re-routed laser train heading west through Kitchener and train 431 heading west, before shifting to Hamilton West once again as well as famed Bayview Junction in Burlington where several CN and CP trains are filmed.

This footage was captured by former CN employee, railfan, videographer, photographer and model railroader Al Wendt and is copyrighted and used with permission.

This is a video filmed from September 9, 1995 to September 30, 1995...

09/24/2026

This is a video filmed from September 4, 1995 to September 9, 1995. The video begins with capturing mainline railway action from around Southern Ontario on CP’s Galt Subdivision at Campbellville at Guelph Junction and Puslinch. From here, an eastbound CN work extra and train 333 are filmed at Georgetown (Silver) on the Halton Subdivision.

The footage continues on CN’s Guelph Subdivision at Breslau as a westbound light power move is filmed. Then on September 6, an evening eastbound is seen arriving at Guelph Jct at Alma Street in Guelph with CN extra 9595 east moving preserved 4-6-4 “Hudson” class steam locomotive 5700 to the upcoming weekend CN Family Day events at MacMillan Yard in Vaughan, Ontario. The vintage steamer was travelling from its home in St. Thomas at the historic Elgin County Railway Museum across the Guelph Subdivision from London. The train takes the siding in downtown Guelph and waits for a meet with a VIA Rail train across from the station. The footage continues at famed Bayview Junction in Burlington and Hamilton West where several CN, VIA Rail and Amtrak trains are filmed.

This footage was captured by former CN employee, railfan, videographer, photographer and model railroader Al Wendt and is copyrighted and used with permission.

This is a video filmed from September 4, 1995 to September 9, 1995....

09/15/2026

This is a video filmed on August 9, 1995 of a cab ride onboard the CN 15:30 Kitchener Job as it journeys on the weedy Waterloo Spur from Kitchener, Ontario to the town of Elmira. Powering the assignment was a CN GP9RM with engineer Dennis Fleet at the throttle and brakeman Brad Toomath. In the video the job has just entered the Waterloo Spur in Kitchener as it approaches Weber Street and heads north to Elmira with a short train. The local traverses downtown Waterloo and Waterloo Park. At that time, the nearby CP Waterloo Subdivision was previously abandoned into Waterloo during 1993, and both railways crossed the intersection of Caroline and Erb streets side by side. However, in this video some of the former CP trackage was still visible on the other side of the crossing near Waterloo Park. The video continues as the CN local travels through the industrial area of north Waterloo and then past the farmers market and into the village of St. Jacobs.

Here the train passes the future Waterloo-St. Jacobs Railway’s (WSJR) first piece of passenger equipment they had acquired. At this point, WSJR’s planned excursion service was still almost two years away from commencing operations on the spur during the summer of 1997. More than 30 years later, today the car still calls the Waterloo Spur home, now in the employ of the Waterloo Central Railway. It is former CN track geometry car #15000 and was built by CC&F in 1923 as sleeper car #1570- “Jellicoe.” In July 1973, CN had converted it into a track geometry car.

Eventually, the train reaches the end of the line in Elmira where the crew would get to work, running around their train before switching the industries, including Sulco, Nutrite and Uniroyal Chemical.

This footage was captured by former CN employee, railfan, videographer, photographer and model railroader Al Wendt and is copyrighted and used with permission.

This is a video filmed on August 9, 1995 of a cab ride onboard the ...

09/11/2026

This is a video filmed from August 28, 1995 to August 31, 1995. The video begins with capturing mainline railway action from around Southern Ontario on CP’s Galt Subdivision at Campbellville, Guelph Jct and Milton. The footage continues with evening trains on the CN Guelph Subdivision at Stratford, where CN 421 is filmed departing for London as well as Goderich-Exeter Railway’s GP9 178 and westbound VIA Rail train 89.

From here, the video covers a CP meet at Wolverton on the Galt Subdivision before shifting to the CN Oakville Subdivision at Aldershot East and famed Bayview Junction in Burlington where CN trains and a CP eastbound exercising trackage rights are filmed. One notable CN eastbound is seen powered with two brand new SD70I’s that were just released that same month from the GMDD plant in London.

This footage was captured by former CN employee, railfan, videographer, photographer and model railroader Al Wendt and is copyrighted and used with permission.

This is a video filmed from August 28, 1995 to August 31, 1995. The...