I decided to shoot it along Wilkes Avenue, so we arrived around mile 8.0 at about 12:00. There was a CN hollow weld gang setting up on one of the two tracks near us. Thankfully they were only blocking the one track, so trains could go around them on the other track.
At about 12:30 I heard a train horn blow, and within a minute the Hudson Bay rolled by. It had VIA 6455 leading baggage 8600, coach 8120, coach 8110, diner YORK, Chateau LEMOYNE, and Chateau RIGAUD.
I waited around for a while, and I was just about to pack up when I saw headlights approaching from the west. It turned out to be CN 314 rolling into Winnipeg with old CN 2449 leading and CN 5773 trailing, at 13:01.
We got a nice wave from the engineer - always appreciated.
We pulled up stakes and headed into town at that point. I drove around for a bit, and finally settled on the diamond where the CP La Riviere subdivision crosses the CN Rivers subdivision. CN 304 rolled through at 14:08. This was a very long train, with CN 8822 and another unit leading, and CN 2292 as DPU about 2/3 through the train. The train was almost entirely paper loads.
The CP line is in the foreground.
We went home after that to get the rest of the family for Folklorama. Not a bad first railfan outing since moving here!
1 comment:
Nice shots, Steve...you've wasted no time getting trackside in your new city. Hope the unpacking goes well and thanks for sharing...that VIA shot could be out on the prairie; hard to believe it's in Winnipeg.
Eric
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