May 25th, 2013
We stopped for two in Newtonville on our way through breaking a very long trainspotting drought, and then stumbled across the Toronto Railway Historical Association's Doors Open display when we got downtown, which we were not expecting.
Belleville, Ontario
(map) CN and CP are roughly parallel through Belleville. The CN Kingston sub and the CP Belleville sub head through the city, crossing just East of the city where the Belleville sub swings North to Smiths Falls.
Newtonville, Ontario
(map) This community is about an hour East of Toronto. Through the area the CP Belleville sub from Toronto to Montreal, and the CN Kingston sub on the same routes run parallel.
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A CP ethanol unit train heads west through Newtonville.
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A CP stack train heads west through Newtonville.
Toronto, Ontario
(map) The capital of Ontario, this city has a number of very busy lines and yards on both the CP and CN networks.
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Toronto downtown's only tourist train makes the rounds at Doors Open.
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The Toronto Historical Railway backs its power onto the turntable at the end of the day at Door's Open Toronto.
July 16th, 2013
After a day exploring Hong Kong and taking the city's cable car ride, we took the train up to Tai Po and back to see what we could see.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is technically a part of China on the south coast.
July 17th, 2013
We went up to Tai Po to find the China-Hong Kong trains that run on the line through that part of Hong Kong. There is a covered pedestrian bridge with open sides a few hundred metres from the train station that provided excellent cover for the strong, driving rain. After, we headed to Tai Wo (the next station) and stumbled across the Hong Kong Railway Museum before going back to Hong Kong Island for a tram ride.
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Not far from Tai Po station in northern Hong Kong is a covered pedestrian/cycle bridge over the tracks.
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Not far from Tai Po station in northern Hong Kong is a covered pedestrian/cycle bridge over the tracks.
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Not far from Tai Po station in northern Hong Kong is a covered pedestrian/cycle bridge over the tracks.
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Not far from Tai Po station in northern Hong Kong is a covered pedestrian/cycle bridge over the tracks. Here a roughly once-per-hour Hong Kong-to-China train passes.
August 3rd, 2013
A high school classmate gave us a ride from downtown Seoul to the Yongsan Electronics Market. I saw a cement-carrying train from the highway and a bit of passenger traffic, but didn't ave any more time in Seoul to explore.
Seoul, South Korea
Seoul is the sprawling capital of South Korea.
