Railfanning Napanee Ontario - August 5 2010

Railfanning Napanee Ontario.

Located 198.9 miles from Montreal's Central Station, Napanee is in the heart of Lennox and Addington County. A small town close to the Bay of Quinte. Napanee was once the crossroads of two major rail lines. The Grand Trunk Railway from Montreal to Toronto and the Canadian Northern Railway from Ottawa to Toronto. The two lines crossed west of today's Centre St. The Canadian Northern mainline was abandoned in pieces after 1923, after the Canadian Government merged CNOR, GTRR and other properties into today's CNR in 1918. The CNOR mainline still exists to Newburgh Ontario to serve a Goodyear plant. A spur once survived until the 1990's towards Deseronto serving a feed mill.

Today, CN and VIA trains travel down the GTR alignment. The present double tracked Kingston Subdivision. One of the original Grand Trunk stations still survives in town. Located off John St. Still a stop for VIA Rail. For how long? We will never know as the towns of Belleville and Kingston are major stops for VIA and people rather board trains from those stations.

East of the station is the large, 382ft viaduct, crossing the Napanee River. A great place to sit by the water, pick up a chip or hotdog, skate at a skateboard park and watch the parade of trains crossing overhead.

East of the Napanee River bridge is Palace Road. A bridge crosses above the CN mainline. From here, you can see the challenge Grand Trunk Railway builders had to contend with as there was no easy way to build a railway through this area. Couldn't go south as it was close to the water. Couldn't go north as the terrain is too steep. Big cuts and fills had to be done to get the railway through town.

There is one little climb east of Napanee and that can slow a heavy train down but for the rest it's a breeze. What delays a train today? Construction of a new third track west of Napanee to Belleville. More trains will be passing through Napanee in the future.

Please enjoy this video of Railfanning Napanee. Where four trains were filmed within one hour. From the Palace Road overpass. On a hot and breezy day in August 2010.


Mile 198.34 CN Kingson Subdivision

August 5 2010

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[EroticKeys]

Great Video. Just wondering what kind of camera or camcorder you use. Thanks.

[ConrailSD70MAC]

@EroticKeys - Sony DCR- SR67 digital standard definition camcorder

[chrisvazquez7]

Great video man! And I love reading your history descriptions! It's awesome :)

[ConrailSD70MAC]

@chrisvazquez7 - thanks Chris! If there are some historical facts about the areas I visit, I add them in. Some people just put a brief description (or none) and alot of tags to get a video noticed.

As a very amateur videographer of trains, I want to capture viewers attention with good composition, creativity in selecting certain angles/perspectives, subject matter, relevance of the locations I visit, and much more.

I'm glad that people like you appreciate my railfanning movies.

[drumzac]

Fantastic video! I think I might have to hit up these locations, since I am only a few minutes from Napanee.

[ConrailSD70MAC]

@drumzac - There are many good places to railfan from between Napanee and Kingston. Even towards Belleville. With all the construction going on west of Napanee, you should get some good vids in.

[ConrailSD70MAC]

@VIA909 - thanks! 

[VIA909]

nice catches and location