Ontario Northland’s Kapuskasing subdivision

This the full video chasing freight 313 from Cochrane to Hearst Ontario. The Kapuskasing subdivision was constructed in the year 1903 by the government and was ultimately integrated into CNR around 1920. The National Transcontinental Railway (NTR) was a government-built railway from Winnipeg, via Sioux Lookout, Kapuskasing, Cochrane and Québec City, to Moncton. The main reason of the NTR’s construction is to promote the colonization of Northern Ontario and to make another connection from Est-West Canada. In the year 1993 Canadian National Railway sold a part of the subdivision to Ontario Northland and abandoned the rest of the line on the Eastern part of Ontario. This was the Kapuskasing subdivision who got another chance at life, the Kapuskasing subdivision runs from Cochrane to Calstock(10 miles West of Hearst). In early 2000’s the Kapuskasing subdivision was in horrible condition with most sections being overgrown and subject to a 10MPH speed limit. Nowadays the Subdivision has finally been cared to and is now one of the Important Subdivision connecting CN and ONR freight from the Western side to the rest of the system.
It was also restricted to 4 axle units for most of its life under the ownership of Ontario Northland but just recently last year letting SD40’s and SD75i’s pull the heavy freight of Hearst.
I hope you enjoy this video, part 2 chasing 514 with 2202 on the lead will be released eventually when I get the time to edit it. This is definitely an interesting 136 mile chase not a lot of people have had the chance to do.
Train I’d: 313
Locomotives: 2101 2202 1806
Locations: Cochrane to Hearst
Subdivision: Kapuskasing

[@NorthShoreRails]

Great shots. Thanks!

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@Jonah_Prefasi]

Amazing video!

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

Thank you!

[@NorthernChevron]

Nice catches! I like how you titled your video the exact same as mine

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

Thank you! I’ve probably watched your video about 6 times and never realized I used the same title as your video.

[@lashendawest7509]

Great catches awesome chase and nice video

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

Thank you!

[@lashendawest7509]

You're welcome

[@BinaryRetroClips]

Great Work.

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

Thank you!

[@JacksTracks-jw5mv]

Great video!!!

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

@@JacksTracks-jw5mv thank you!

[@CNGP9]

Great chase

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

@@CNGP9 thanks!

[@GEVOlutionCPKC]

Another breaking it friend 🚂👍🏼✔️🔝👌🏼

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

Thanks!

[@Polandfan277]

I saw that train today

[@bobblundell2281]

They need to get rid of the bolted rail, and smooth out some section before they have cars rock and rolling off the rails

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

Yes I definitely agree that ONR needs to fix their rail but it’s 100% better than what it was 20 years ago. The Kap, KL, and a couple sections of the others had horrible track conditions. But thankfully ONR had really been working hard on fixing rail, bridges and upgrading their rail to CWR, It’s a very long process when you have about 600Miles of track to maintain.

[@mybadluckcharm]

Oh yes, ONR did a *lot* of work there, the rocking you see here is nothing compared to what it was in the '90s.
The train from Cochrane to Kap used to rate 2 GP9s, sometimes 3, and another train handled the run from Kap to Hearst, with 2 SW1200RS's. The run to Hearst would barely crawl along, and had *far* less cars than you see here. CN ran the line, back then.

[@mybadluckcharm]

Well i'll be. A 6-axle locomotive running through Kap. Huh!

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

Yessir it’s definitely something I would never imagine seeing. They have been doing SD40-2’s for a while now but just recently they have brought a SD70M on the lead of 313… it’s never going to be the same again.

[@ONR-gk4rh]

wow
hi alec

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

Wow Hi Auden

[@40.3detector]

[@ontario.northland.railfan]

Lmao