Steve Boyko

The automated inspection portal at Vivian, Manitoba was inspecting this eastbound container train in great detail on September 22, 2025. These AIP structures capture high resolution images of every rail car that passes through. These images are analyzed and problems can be detected.

Sunrise from my birthday last month... near Dugald, Manitoba.

No food today.
Lang, SK this past Saturday.

GO Transit ready to depart Kitchener toward Toronto, yesterday just before noon.

Manitobans were plagued with forest fires this summer, and apparently even Americans were complaining about the smoke and how they couldn't put a tariff on it. In the midst of July I photographed this short yard job rolling into the east end of CPKC's Winnipeg yard on a hazy afternoon.

Back in July I rode my bike under the CN bridge in St. Norbert, Manitoba and into the woods for some forest path biking. The bridge crosses the La Salle River and hosts a couple of trains per day on average.

Right!

a group of men are sitting in a garage with a sign that says uptown girl . ALT: a group of men are sitting in a garage with a sign that says uptown girl .

You go, then! 😂

What do you call the area around King Street, Charlotte Street, etc.?

I haven't lived in New Brunswick for more than 15 years, but I'd have to give it to Fredericton for the uptown. I can't think of where the "uptown" is in Saint John and Moncton's is too stretched out. They all have great downtowns.

The Central Manitoba Railway ran a ballast train yesterday down the Carman subdivision... spotted yesterday leaving Winnipeg.

AMTK 736 somewhere in the San Francisco area, 2000.

I saw this wonderful old house last weekend in New Brunswick and had to stop to make a photo. I love that there are still curtains in the window upstairs.

Let's go back 18 years (!) and a bit to August 3, 2007. I was out in the wilds of New Brunswick at Deersdale, when CN 308 came rolling around the curve with an SD60F leading, 5519, followed by 5368 and 5375 and 6021. It was worth the wait.

Early morning on March 30, 2018 finds a westbound train heading out of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Railfanning from Tim Hortons - the VIA Rail "Ocean" rolling into Halifax this evening.

Last night I bought a sub and a Diet Pepsi in Sackville, NB, then since you shouldn't eat a sub and drive, I paused at Aulac to watch the sun set on the Tantramar Marshes. Because why not.

The aurora didn't show up last night near Winnipeg, but we did get a light show of a different kind.

Mirror, mirror.

I'm very proud of my image of CN 5704 on the cover of the latest CN LINES magazine. Thanks to Kevin J Holland for making it look great as a cover image, and to Alan Lill for suggesting it!
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Also, I should straighten my glasses.

Oakville, Manitoba on a lovely fall morning last year.

Set the wayback machine to around 2000-2001... Regina, Saskatchewan... CN irritating motorists on Albert Street but delighting this railfan.

Every town had a "hot 100" radio station, 100.5 on your FM radio dial in Winnipeg! Here's CPKC's "hot 100", train 100 rolling eastward out of the city under smoky skies on July 27, 2025.

Day or night, the trains keep moving.

Rounding the bend at mile 16, eastbound CN 2241 breaks the eerie silence along CN's main line just west of Winnipeg.

I never get tired of the big skies.
(near Rosser, Manitoba)

Sometimes you have to get a little muddy.

Black and white photo of a factory wall featuring the lettering Canadian Tool and Die Ltd.

Canadian Tool and Die was founded in Winnipeg in 1947 and is going strong, 78 years later.

"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm." - Albert Camus

I have been blogging about trains for 20 years!