detour days
Four years ago today — on February 14th, 2020 — it was the ninth day of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation rail blockade in Ontario. A day after CN announced it would "shut down its Eastern Canada network", a handful of trains took the scenic route over the Ontario Northland Railway to reach their respective destinations of Toronto (southbound) and Northern Quebec (northbound). Here, detoured CN stack train no. 149 is seen racing southbound along ONR's Temagami Subdivision at Latchford and by the line's gorgeous namesake station at Temagami.