Recent Videos

Here are some videos I took recently.

First, CN 2541 West from Thursday December 17. This was a long intermodal train with CN 2541, sergeant stripe CN 2401 and shiny CN 2291.


The second video is also from December 17. CN 2306 and CN 8846 pulled a train that was mostly empty centerbeam flat cars, with some pipe loads on the head end and a few tank cars here and there.


The third video shows the distributed power (DPU) train from Friday December 18. CN 8865 was on the head end, and CN 8862 was pushing on the rear.

DPU Friday

I did a quick trip to the CN mainline next to Wilkes Avenue at noon today, just in the off chance a train was coming. Sure enough, I saw headlights down by CN Waverley. Within a couple of minutes, a fast intermodal blew by.

CN 8865 was the sole unit on the head end. To me, this meant there had to be a DPU unit stuck somewhere in the train. I watched the containers roll by, but no unit, no unit... there's the end of the train... aha! Sister SD70M-2 CN 8862 was pushing on the rear.

CN normally puts the DPU unit(s) somewhere in the train, not at the rear, so this was new to me. CP often has a pusher on the end of its intermodal trains.

Right after they went by at 12:06, I saw BNSF 2001 pushing its train to Fort Rouge, and then a CP southbound freight rolled over the diamond at St. James Junction. Noon is a busy time around here.