An Ontario man who was riding on the locomotive of a train and allegedly filmed it for “social media content” was fined $500 in Brandon provincial court on Thursday.

“If this was all about creating social media content, you need to give some serious thought to what could have gone wrong here,” Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta said.

Jonathan Hart, 25, pleaded guilty to the charge of trespassing on railway property under the Railway Safety Act.

Crown attorney Ron Toews told the court that on Oct. 11, the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Police Service received a report of a “possible train rider.”

The train was travelling east from Saskatchewan. The man was believed to be riding on the “middle remote locomotive,” Toews said.

A locomotive is a self-propelled engine that provides power to move the

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