Back on August 23 I saw a couple of trains in the late afternoon. First I saw CN 199 heading out of town, with CN 8874 and BCOL 4601. I saw it just short of mile 10 at first...
I headed west on Wilkes and got ahead of it before it reached Diamond. I set up the video camera and then took this pan shot as they came by. Note the weird clean panel on the ex BC Rail unit.
After that I headed out on the Perimeter. As I approached the crossing where the CP La Riviere subdivision cuts across the highway, I saw a long grain train heading south. I crossed and then headed down highway 330 a bit. I pulled across the track and waited for the train to roll along. It was doing a fair speed, with big engines CP 9662 and CP 8777 doing the work.
Here's the train heading south down toward La Salle and beyond.
It's nice to see big power on the La Riviere subdivision. Usually all I see are the GP38 / slug pairs of CP 3028/1128 or 3027/1127.
I'm so far behind in cataloguing my train photos. I've been busy on a bunch of other (non-train) stuff and yet I keep taking train photos, so my virtual "to be filed" stack gets larger and larger. I know, I know, it's not a bad situation to be in... so here is a dump of some photos I've taken recently, without much commentary.
On July 31, I shot an eastbound intermodal at Diamond in the late afternoon. CN 2248 was the sole engine on the head end and CN 2338 was farther back in the train.
On August 14, two SD60s brought CN 781 west out of Winnipeg. CN 5548 was the lead engine, followed by CN 5516. I quite like how this one turned out.
On August 21, I took the kids for a drive because we were all bored. We ended up in and around Transcona and saw a few trains. First, we saw BCOL 4607 sitting by itself in the CN Transcona yard. I don't know whether it was dropped by a train or was left as additional power for a soon-to-arrive train, but it was all alone.
I drove up to CEMR's yard to see what was up. On the way I saw CEMR 4002 pushing a set of tank cars back toward their yard. Technically CEMR was on the Pine Falls subdivision, so that was the first time I'd seen a train there.
In behind CEMR's shop, the hulk of CCGX 4010 is being slowly stripped. Here it is, clearly showing half of the 16 cylinder holes.
CCGX 4010's hood lay on the ground nearby.
Finally, we have CN 199 heading out of Winnipeg on August 23. First, here it is just west of Carman Junction with CN 8874 leading.
Ex BC Rail unit BCOL 4601 was trailing. Note the shiny clean section on 4601... wonder why?
I got ahead of them and shot them approaching Diamond. I decided to do a bit of a pan shot for this one.
I shot some video of 199 here.
As a little extra, here are some crossing gates at sunrise. This was shot just south of the floodway on the CP Emerson subdivision.
