C-GTPL - F2TH (087) - Teterboro - 4th April 2019

Built in June of 1948 by Lima for the C&O, this 4-8-4 "Greenbriar" was the last commercially produced 4-8-4 to be built. It was built to pull the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway’s premier express passenger trains, The George Washington and The Fast Flying Virginian between Richmond and Chicago over the eastern continental divide formed by the Allegheny Mountains.

Being produced so late into the steam era, the locomotive sported many of the latest & greatest features that could be found, like roller bearing drivers & rods to name a couple, allowing it to be an instant success. Its reliability, power and speed enabled the railroad to increase the size of the trains it pulled and at the same time shortened scheduled running times between destinations. Despite the success of the design, though, the transition to diesel was already well underway & it was put into storage in 1952 in a Kentucky roundhouse, where she sat for more than two decades. In the fall of 1956, before it was official retired, it was actually renumbered 611. The C&O had a power shortage and as a result, leased a number of 4-8-4’s from the RF&P, including their 614. To alleviate confusion, a paint brush and chisel were taken to the 614, since the original C&O 611 had already been retired.

In 1976, she was cosmetically restored and donated to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 1979, the locomotive was sold to railroad enthusiast and entrepreneur Ross E. Rowland, Jr., who oversaw a crew of 15 mechanics and some 100 volunteers to rebuild it to operation on the Chessie Safety Express after Reading 2101 was critically damaged when the roundhouse in Silver Grove, KY it was being stored in caught on fire, damaging it to the point where it would need a complete overhaul. The project took 18 months to complete at a cost of $1.5 million. During the restoration, modifications were made to enable it to pull a 25-car passenger train all day without having to stop for any type of service.

It pulled those trips in 1980 & 1981, then sat in storage until January of 1985, when it was used as a test vehicle for the ACE 3000 project, which was Ross Rowland's attempt to design a modern steam locomotive. As part of the early testing, it was assigned to pull coal trains between Huntington & Hinton, WV for several weeks. Ultimately, the railroads decided to stay with the diesel-electric design & the project was scrapped.

The engine's most recent assignment was powering a series of excursions from Hoboken, NJ to Port Jervis, NY over NJ Transit’s Bergen County, Main and Conrail’s (now Metro-North Railroad) Southern Tier lines in the fall of 1996, 1997 & 1998. These 180 mile round-trip “Iron Horse Rambles” and “Erie Limited” excursions saw the engine pulling 25+ car trains as fast as 79mph, providing for some jaw-dropping performances. Since then though, it has sat dormant in multiple locations & has even been put up for sale at one point while Ross has made several attempts to have the engine run again. 11-5-20

C-FGAJ - Boeing B-767-223ER/F - CargoJet Airways

(leased from Cargo Aircraft Management Inc. - CAMI)

at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)

c/n 22.319 - built in 1985 for American Airlines as pax-aircraft (N317AA)

converted to Cargo in 2008 and leased to CargoJet Airways -

The last remaining "short" B-767 in the CargoJet fleet -

Retired and returned to lessor 31.12.2018 - ferried YHM-PHX-GYR 04.01.2019

C-GUJA - Canadair CRJ-200ER - Air Canada express (operated by JAZZ)

at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)

New scheduled service YHM - YUL

Don't see these at PDX too often

C-FMSK - Cessna C-208 Caravan - Jetport Inc.

on amphibious floats

at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)

left Jetport in 2013 - now reg. C-GFIA with Winterland Aviation Holdings

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C-FJAS - Embraer EMB-545 Legacy 450 - AirSprint

at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)

c/n 55010022 - built in 2017

AirSprint maintains the largest fractional fleet of private aircraft in Canada and is currently selling fractional interests in the Embraer Legacy 450, Cessna Citation CJ2+ and the Citation CJ3+.

C-GKAX - Beechcraft D-18S - private - reg. to Peter Byl, Medicine Hat

at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)

c/n A-952 - built in 1952 -

imported to Canada 25.11.2019 -

currently based YHM - operating out of the Jetport-facility

C-FGRY - de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8 - JAZZ (operating for Air Canada)

at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)

c/n 212 - built in 1990 for Air Ontario -

later operated by Air Alliance, Air Nova, Air Canada Regional

merged into JAZZ 2002 - still in JAZZ orange colours

Taken at wincanton

WestJet B737-8CT C-GAWS (# 100 Boeing 737 NG) Landing On RWY 22L

C-FWVJ Westjet

Boeing 737-8CT

Cancun International, Mexico

16th November 2015

C-GUAJ - Boeing B-767-35EER (BCF) - CargoJet Airways

(leased from Guggenheim Aviation Partners)

at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)

c/n 26.063 - built in 1992 for GECAS and operated by EVA Air -

converted to freighter 2014 -

leased to CargoJet 09.10.14

C-FEXY - Cessna C-208B Cargomaster - FedEx Feeder (operated by Morningstar Air Express)

at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)

C-GWJE - Boeing B-737-7CT/W - Westjet

(leased from BOC Aviation)

at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)

c/n 35.078 - built in 2007 -

stored 03/2020 - returned to lessor and cancelled 2021-11-16 -

to Canadian North as C-FHNN in 01/2022

Harbour Air's carbon offsetter landing at Vancouver South

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C-GWSQ - Boeing B-737-7CT/W - WestJet (leased from BOC Aviation)

at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)

c/n 37.091 - built in 2009

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C-GSAS - Cessna C-208 Caravan - Seair Seaplanes

at Vancouver International SPB (CAM9)

c/n 20800341 - built in 2001

All aircraft moving between the Fraser River and the ramp at Vancouver airport have to pass a public road

C-FGEO departing runway 16 Zurich 11/09/2016

C-FUWS - Boeing B-737-7CT/W - WestJet

at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)

c/n 32.765 - built in 2004 - FIN 228

C-GWEF - Bombardier DHC-8Q-402 - WestJet Encore

at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)

c/n 4487 - built in 2014

Viewfinder of a Kodak Hawkeye Model C

C&NW Train 2, the eastbound Kate Shelley 400 paused at DeKalb, Illinois on Dec. 28, 1964. It was not 7:00 a.m. yet. She left Clinton, Iowa well over an hour before where she slept the night and had about an hour to go to arrive in Chicago. She had a diner lounge car and coaches. Her run was 138 miles. E-unit 5015A and its steam generator seemed to be working fine on this cold college-break morning. She was an E7A built in September 1947 and retired in August 1971.

C-FPIJ - Boeing B-767-33AER/SF - CargoJet Airways

(white tail - CargoJet titles)

at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)

c/n 27.918 - built in 1996 for SALE - leased to Alitalia as I-DEIG - converted to freighter by IAI in 2014 -

registered to CargoJet since 06.11.2014

C-FWJS - Boeing B-737-8CT/SW - WestJet

at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)

c/n 39.076 - built in 2014

now with Split-Scimitar - wingslets fitted

C-FWSE - Boeing B-737-8CT/W - WestJet

at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)

C-FHDX - Taylor Coot A - private

at London/ON International Airport (YXU)

CAR Standard 549 - Amateur Built Aircraft

wrapped up for the winter

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C-GUJZ - Bombardier DHC-8Q-402 - Air Canada express (operated by JAZZ)

at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)

Défi Photo N&B de ( A-Z 2015 ) lettre C, pour clocher

C-FGKJ - Boeing B-757-223BCF/W - CargoJet Airways

at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)

c/n 25.298 - built in 1992 for American Airlines and operated until 2011 -

converted to freighter and registered to CargoJet since 30.12.2014

still in incomplete colours -

and the first B-757-freighter with winglets in the CargoJet-fleet