Sperry at Diamond

On June 9 I was heading home from work, and decided to detour out to Diamond just west of Winnipeg to see if there was any CN action. I did see something on the rails as I approached, and it turned out to be a Sperry truck, SRS 863, on the north track. I also saw a CN train approaching, and it turned out to be CN 314 led by engine CN 8820.



After 314 went by, I took a few shots of the Sperry truck before it headed west.


A little detail from the above photograph:

CN 346

Just a quickie post... I heard CN 346 was leaving the CN Symington Yard onto the Sprague subdivision, so I caught it at Deacon's Corner just south of the bridge crossing Winnipeg's all-important floodway.

CN 8883 and CN 8820 were the power on the head end.


About mid-train, CN 2684 and CN 2332 were the distributed power (DPU). I'm not sure I've ever seen two DPU units stuck together on a CN train before.


The head end of the train was grain hoppers, with a few miscellaneous cars mixed in, and a collection of empty autoracks on the tail end.

I've shot CN 346 twice before.

I think I'm getting to know the CN engines around here a bit too much. Of the four engines on this train, I've seen three of them before!

I Want To See Three Trains, Daddy

I was off work on Thursday, and my son and I were out and about in the afternoon. I figured we could go see a train or two on the CN mainline on Wilkes Avenue. My son was all for this and wanted to see three trains. I promised I would do my best but we had a limited time.

I came off the Perimeter at Wilkes and headed in toward town. Soon I saw a headlight to the east, and I turned around to grab the first train. It was paired SD70M-2 units 8820 and 8855 leading a train with empty centerbeam flats and potash cars at 14:40.


After that blew by, we headed back into town... to see another set of headlights! This time it was ES44DC CN 2233 and SD70M-2 CN 8825 leading a solid intermodal train at 14:50.


We were running out of time, so we had to head down Kenaston. We saw a single CP GP38 working the cement plant off Kenaston, so I guess that was our third train!