tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72807650521810400002024-03-13T05:46:12.391-06:00Dust On The Tracks. .East Of The Rockies.alberta railfaning & train blog.jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-67213574629369878372011-06-03T21:39:00.003-06:002011-06-03T21:39:00.336-06:002816 Shakedown Trip To Carseland - Part 1<div style="text-align: justify;">
If you wish to follow along in Google Earth, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2011-05-14_2816_shakedown_run_-_part-1.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">May 13th, 2011</span></span></div>
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Sleep was restless!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">May 14th, 2011</span></span></div>
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I arrived at the Canadian Pacific Railway Pavilion at 09:55 on the corner of 9th Ave and 1st Street SW. When I entered, I was greeted by two CP employees who directed me to walk up the main corridor. I have viewed this building only from the outside on numerous occasions in the past, but this day I would excitedly view the pavilion from the inside.</div>
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The interior of the pavilion’s main hall section was more spacious than I had expected. There is also a long portion of the building that is not viewable from the street but can be seen from the parkade where I parked my car. Yes, I parked on the top most level to view it from above, but was in a rush and did not take a picture.</div>
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The interior is all exposed structural steel construction with an aluminum curtain wall façade and dome in the main area. All the design specific structural steel and curtain wall mullions are painted black with a few gold accented decorative elements. Most of all other building elements are painted with flat off white which blends nicely in the background as to not detract your eye from the main elements of focus being the structural steel.</div>
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The design of the steel work in the pavilion is reminiscent of early train stations and gives you a feeling of being there back in time. This is especially noticeable when looking down the pavilion platform with the early CP coaches and business cars to each side of the central walk giving you a feeling of being on the platform boarding a train to a destination left to the imagination.</div>
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Here is the roster of all the coaches and business cars that were in the pavilion.</div>
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<tr border="1"><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col">NO.</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="110">NAME</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="130">TYPE</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="80">BUILDER</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="60">DATE</th><th bgcolor="#333333" colspan="2" scope="col">NOTES</th></tr>
<tr><td>74</td><td>Mount Stephen</td><td>Business</td><td>CP</td><td>12/1926</td><td rowspan="5">other notes can be found in the Canadian Trackside Guide</td></tr>
<tr><td>85</td><td>Craigellachie</td><td>Dining Car</td><td>CC&F/CP</td><td>08/1931</td></tr>
<tr><td>78</td><td>Royal Wentworth</td><td>Business</td><td>CP</td><td>08/1926</td></tr>
<tr><td>77</td><td>Van Horne</td><td>Business</td><td>CP</td><td>05/1927</td></tr>
<tr><td>82</td><td>Strathcona</td><td>Business</td><td>CP</td><td>11/1927</td></tr>
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<tr border="1"><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col">NO.</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col">NAME</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col">TYPE</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col">BUILDER</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col">DATE</th><th bgcolor="#333333" colspan="2" scope="col">NOTES</th></tr>
<tr><td>79</td><td>N.R. Crump</td><td>Stateroom</td><td>CC&F/CP</td><td>10/1930</td><td rowspan="5">other notes can be found in the Canadian Trackside Guide</td></tr>
<tr><td>84</td><td>Banffshire</td><td>Stateroom</td><td>NSC/CP</td><td>09/1926</td></tr>
<tr><td>71</td><td>Killarney</td><td>Business</td><td>Pullman</td><td>??/1916</td></tr>
<tr><td>73</td><td>Mount Royal</td><td>Business</td><td>CP</td><td>10/1927</td></tr>
<tr><td>95</td><td>unamed</td><td>Generator/Baggage</td><td>CC&F</td><td>11/1952</td></tr>
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We boarded the train at 10:55 and after backing up and switching over to the main line, we were heading east.</div>
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The unfortunate part of the trip is that I never took one shot of the interiors of the coaches and others cars. My head really was not on straight that day and I really kick myself in the butt for that. Hopefully another opportunity will present itself in the future.</div>
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On our way out of the downtown core, I took a few pictures of the shoo-fly over 4th Steet SE. CP has relocated the yard that was here to just off the Manchester lead on the southbound line from the wye at 12th Street Tower. I will post more on this in a future post. Two of the lines have now been re-routed back to their original location which we were on one of them.</div>
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I attempted to catch 2816 on the curve coming out of the Depot from the downtown core, crossing the Elbow River and also crossing 8th Street SE. As you can see I have an issue with holding my camera straight when hanging out of the baggage car doors. My timing was also a bit late shooting the photo. We were now heading into Alyth Yard.</div>
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There were quite a few things to see once we were in Alyth Yard and viewing from the train gave an interesting perspective that one does not get to see very often if at all.</div>
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First up was one of the wye leads coming from the Manchester Lead on the south line heading to the Depot and west to BC. The building to the left in the first photo is called LocalMotive. It is an office building with several tenants and it was one of the design projects done by the firm I work with. The second photo is of the other wye lead coming from the Manchester Lead on the south line heading into and through Alyth eventually heading east. In the second photo, you can just see the 12th Street Tower on the far right. In the distance you can see the Calgary Tower in the left center and the new Bow Tower still under construction in the right center.</div>
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Next we came up to a trackside industry called <a href="http://canadamalting.com/">Canada Malting</a>. They produce, well simply put, malt for alcoholic beverages. You can see in the second photo that the facility is fairly large with several silos on one side and several large malt producing buildings on the other side. If anyone reading is a model railroader, this could be a good industry to model on a home layout if you have the room. I again show off my superior camera horizontalness holding abilities in the first photo. I guess the fact that I’m rocking back and forth in the baggage/observation car doesn’t help either.</div>
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The next industry we rolled past was <a href="http://www.adm.com/en-US/worldwide/canada/Pages/default.aspx">ADM Milling</a> which is not as large a facility as Canada Malting but still large enough. ADM produces wide variety of products from baking goods to confectionery ingredients to nutritional ingredients for snack foods. Again this could be a good industry to model on a home model railroad layout.</div>
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After the ADM facility rolled by I moved over to the other side of the baggage/observation car to see how the view was looking into Alyth Yard. Thankfully it was pretty open near the Pulldown Tower after we cleared a mixed freight train. It was interesting to see the innards of the yard or at least in part.</div>
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In the first photo below, you can see the mixed freight train that we cleared and what appears to be some kind of runaway train prevention system in yellow on the rails which I noticed on several tracks. The second photo shows the Pulldown Tower, the end of P yard, the end V yard and the end of the classification yard in the distance. Further back is N yard but it is not visible from this far back. In the last two photos you can see three SD40-2’s which consist of a former SOO locomotive 6609 to the left, 5731 and 5795 and to the right of them, CEFX 1039 which is an AC4400. You can barely make out the tracks of the Class Yard in the third photo beyond the old baggage car. I was not able to get any reporting marks for it. Between the baggage car and the white CP truck is V Yard and P Yard in the foreground which we were coming out of on P1 track I believe.</div>
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Something to note that is not seen in the above photos, there is a small yard with four or five tracks behind the Pulldown Tower which is mainly used to interchange with CN. The intermodal train that was behind the tanker train, on the far track in front of the Pulldown Tower, was coming in off of the wye from the north on the Red Deer Sub and running through Alyth and heading east. Those particular tracks are often used for this purpose.</div>
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If I remember correctly, the tank car train in front of the intermodal train had just pulled out of the Class Yard with two SD40-2’s pulling, 6002 and newly painted 6610 which is a former SOO unit. I think both trains were waiting for us to pull out of the yard.</div>
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In the first photo below, the bridge that is barely visible in the background from between the containers is on the interchange line connecting CN’s Sarcee Yard to CP’s Alyth Yard. CP also uses the line to service clients up in the Foothills Industrial area. The two lead units on the intermodal train were two SD90MACs numbered 9145 and 9104 at the front.</div>
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At that point we were just around the bend from Ogden Shops Yard, but you will have to read about it in part two!</div>
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Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2011-05-14_2816_shakedown_run_-_part-1.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div>
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Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-54297128437090146472011-06-02T20:59:00.001-06:002011-06-04T09:13:53.524-06:00New Book To Buy: Trackside With VIA<div style="text-align: justify;">
There is a new VIA Rail book available for purchase to one and all! The book is titled <a href="http://newviarailbook.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post.html">Trackside With VIA: The First 35 Years</a> and it is self-published by Eric Gagnon. If you wish to purchase a copy of the book, the price of this <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: white;">White</span> & <span style="color: yellow;">Yellow</span> gem</span> is $25 CDN and ships free within Canada. Just print a copy of this <a href="http://newviarailbook.blogspot.com/2011/05/order-form.html">Order Form</a>, fill it out and drop it in the mail.</div>
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Mine is happily on its way to me! <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Get yours Today!</span></span></div>
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Eric is also the author an outstanding blog called <a href="http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/">Trackside Treasure</a> where you can find a plethora of information and pictures from last few decades up to today.</div>
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Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-20188988503006409332011-05-13T23:10:00.000-06:002011-05-13T23:30:54.915-06:002816 Shakedown Ride<div style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, it appears that I will not be chasing 2816 on her shakedown run to Carseland and back to Calgary. I will however be going along for the ride! A friend of mine asked if I wanted to join him as he is allowed to bring along a guest...</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">...I did not refuse.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">In the words of Balki Bartokomous:<br />"Now we are so happy, we do the Dance of Joy! HEY! Dia, dia, dia, dia, da-dia, da-da-da-dia! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!"</div><br />
Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-76102075841232289462011-05-06T23:43:00.001-06:002011-06-02T20:59:30.988-06:002816 Shakedown Run<div style="text-align: justify;">
Two little birdies told me that CPR's 2816 steam train will be coming out for a shakedown run on May the 14th. She will leave the CPR Pavilion in downtown Calgary at about 11:00 and will most likely make her way to Carseland and back to Calgary after turning around on the wye. I'm not 100% on the trip destination but it is the most logical.</div>
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That is the word so far!</div>
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Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-65889787046290753502011-03-04T19:13:00.004-07:002011-03-19T21:21:41.742-06:00C46, The Only Train On The Brooks Sub<div style="text-align: justify;">
If you wish to follow along in Google Earth, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-06-12_c46_the_only_train_on_the_brooks_sub.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">June 25th, 2010</span></span></div>
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Back in June, the model railroad group I’m with was thinking of making an appearance at an event in Carseland. I figured I would head out there early to do a bit of railfaning there. Unfortunately we were not able to attend the event due to various reasons. Unfortunately I had not read my emails for a bit as I was busy with other things so I unfortunately did not get the memo saying that we were not attending. I was out there…alone…quite literally as matter of fact.</div>
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After I found out via a reply to my questioning email to another group member on my Blackberry, I figured I might as well continue railfaning while I was there. Unfortunately I did not have my scanner so I could not get advanced notice of arriving trains. So I sat there in the heat waiting and waiting for the trains that would not come.</div>
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I also unfortunately failed to remember that there was no traffic on the Brooks Sub due to washouts and floods near Medicine Hat. So unfortunately there would be no through traffic on the Brooks Sub. At that point I decided to leave.</div>
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Unfortunateness is unfortunately unfortunate. Holy Shitballs Batman, say that three times fast!</div>
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Instead of following Highway 24 North, I continued West onto Township Road 221. A bit of fortune was with me this time. I could see the local switcher, train C46 which runs out of Alyth, on the West Carseland Spur switching cars for the Orica and Agrium plants which I <a href="http://dustonthetracks.blogspot.com/2008/07/friday-off-meets-weekday-railfaning.html">posted about these two industries</a> previously. The locomotive used this time to do the switching was 8886, an ES44AC.</div>
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After a few minutes of switching it headed into the Agrium plant. It was coupled to five covered hoppers with a bulkhead flat car on the tail end.</div>
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The first three covered hoppers marked JTSX are apparently owned by <a href="http://www.djj.com/VideoDefault.asp">David J. Joseph Company</a> (DJJ). They are in the metal, alloys and scrap metal recycling brokering business. Among their <a href="http://www.djj.com/profile/">various services</a>, they happen to own and manage a <a href="http://www.djj.com/logistic/fleet.asp">private fleet</a> of open gondola railcars and operate a <a href="http://www.djj.com/whatwedo/leasing.asp">rail equipment leasing group</a> with bulkhead flat cars, covered hoppers, aggregate hoppers, flat bottom gondolas and mill gondolas. Almost forgot to mention that they do <a href="http://www.djj.com/whatwedo/rail.asp">railcar scraping and railcar parts reclamation</a> as well.</div>
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<tr><td>DJJ</td><td>JTSX 55373</td><td>Covered Hopper</td></tr>
<tr><td>DJJ</td><td>JTSX 46152</td><td>Covered Hopper</td></tr>
<tr><td>DJJ</td><td>JTSX 130753</td><td>Covered Hopper</td></tr>
<tr><td>ACF Leasing</td><td>ACFX 59197</td><td>Covered Hopper</td></tr>
<tr><td>PLM International</td><td>PLMX 129090</td><td>Covered Hopper</td></tr>
<tr><td>CN</td><td>CN 22341</td><td>Bulkhead Flat</td></tr>
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After they pulled into Agrium they sat there for about 15 minutes, so I decided to resume my travels into Calgary to Alyth to see the new yard that CP built. That is another story.</div>
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Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-06-12_c46_the_only_train_on_the_brooks_sub.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div>
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Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-39210300950182953852011-02-18T20:07:00.179-07:002011-02-18T20:07:00.294-07:00Haircut and Trains<div style="text-align: justify;">
If you wish to follow along in Google Earth, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2011-02-05_haircut_and_trains.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">February 5th, 2011</span></span></div>
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I usually try to book my bi-annual haircut on a Friday after work as it is only ten minutes from the office, but this time I had to settle for Saturday. This meant having to make an unplanned trip into Calgary, but I would also do some unplanned railfaning. I was already close to being late so that meant no time to stop and take of any train I came across on the way.</div>
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As luck would have it, I did see three trains on the way and did manage to take notes of what I saw on the way in. First, there was a mixed freight train leaving Aldersyde heading south. Once in Calgary, there was a grain train waiting on the tracks at Zoo waiting to get into Alyth and further up at Beddington there was a mixed freight train leaving Calgary. The Zoo and Beddington stations are on the Red Deer Subdivision at Mile 1.3 and Mile 8.3 respectively.</div>
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I did manage to arrive on time with 5 minutes to spare. After the ritual chopping was done, I decided at the “spur” of the moment to head to Country Hills Boulevard. I don’t know why I decided this because I was not familiar with the area at all; I only knew that it crossed over the tracks at some point. As I drove over and past the tracks, I looked south to see if there were any trains around and there was. I drove on and turned around a couple intersections further down.</div>
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The gamble had paid off!</div>
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On my way back, there was a mixed freight and intermodal train pulling up northbound at a slow pace on the north side of Country Hills. On the south there was a cut of tank cars. Just when it seemed like I missed the train, it stopped and went into reverse very slowly. I spied a street on the west side of the tracks that looked like there would be a good vantage point to setup my mobile observational headquarters and headed in the direction trying not to violate any forward momentum crippling obstacles, at least not by much.</div>
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I ended up on Covington Road which runs parallel to the tracks for a bit and is also fairly elevated. There is also sufficient place to park the car on the side of the road and also plenty of space for one to setup a train observation post. I chose my spot, turned on the scanner, and snapped a few shots of the train backing up under the overpass at about 12:20 and then waited. Locos on this train were 9528 and 8536 both AC4400’s.</div>
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In a <a href="http://dustonthetracks.blogspot.com/2011/01/hour-at-alyth.html">previous post</a> I mentioned that the trucks could be used as an identifier between the AC4400 and the ES44AC locomotives. I don’t know exactly why I said this, maybe because the photos that I referenced in my library showed it to be so. As you can see in the image below, these two AC4400’s use the two different truck types.</div>
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Finally at about 12:45 the voices on the scanner indicated that they were ready to head out. They received their instructions to advance to Harmatton at Mile 48.5 on the Red Deer Sub, wait for another train and restore switch positions when arriving and leaving. I was able to count 120 cars on this train plus 2 locomotives. It is unfortunate that weather conditions were not so good, there was blowing snow and it made the photos a tad blurry and hazy. In the last photo you can barely see the locomotives passing under Stoney Trail which is part of the new ring road.</div>
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After that I scouted out a few of the other side roads then figured I should head down to Alyth and see what was happening there.</div>
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When I pulled in to my usual look out spot at about 14:20, there was a grain train pulling in but in reverse. They backed in to track P3 and the crew disembarked. This could have been the train I saw earlier in the day, come in off the wye from the Red Deer Sub, back in and be ready to head out either west or south. The Locomotives on this train were CP 8855 and CEFX 1035, an ES44AC and an AC4400.</div>
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Here are a few shots of some of the more interesting hoppers on this train, in no particular order.</div>
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A few minutes after the crew drove away a trio pulled up on P2 and slowed down beside 8855. The three were CP 8709, CEFX 1023 and SOO 6057, an ES44AC, AC4400 and a SD60. They pulled up and headed around the wye to come back in on one of the far tracks and headed out of sight behind the grain train lead by 8855.</div>
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Sitting on the far siding were a few locomotives. The first three coupled together were 3035, 1125 and 8205, a GP38-2, GP35 and a GP9 respectively. 8205 is a former StL&H locomotive.</div>
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Here is a bit of interesting information about 3035 and 1125, they are is referred to as mother and daughter mated. 1125 is a control cab slug with its engine removed and replaced with ballast. Power for its traction motors come from 3035. The cab is also fully functional for control purposes.</div>
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Also back there coupled together were 1641, 1154, and 401034, a GP9, SW1200RS and a snowplow. 1154 is a control cab similar to 1125 but it is not permanently mated to another locomotive. This trio has been hanging around for at least two weeks now.</div>
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Behind them were 3069, GP38-2, and another locomotive which I could not get the number of but it was a GP9. You can see the top of its cab behind 1154 in the picture above.</div>
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A few minutes went by and the snow started blowing in and then at 15:05 a pair of CP locomotives types that I have not seen run in a while came out from somewhere near the diesel shops. They were a couple SD90MAC’s.</div>
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They disappeared just as quickly as they appeared.</div>
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As they were retreating, the hump was pulling out with 6611 and 6614 both form SOO SD40-2’s.</div>
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I took a couple shots of some hoppers and of a really weathered tank car in the hump.</div>
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After that I headed straight for home as the weather was turning bad with cold and blowing snow.</div>
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Here is a listing of the trains I saw that day.</div>
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<tr border="1"><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="40">TIME</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="175">TYPE</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="60">LENGTH</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="80">DIRECTION</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col">STATION/LOCATION</th></tr>
<tr><td>10:45</td><td>mixed freight</td><td>N/A</td><td>southbound</td><td>leaving Aldersyde</td></tr>
<tr><td>11:10</td><td>grain</td><td>N/A</td><td>southbound</td><td>Zoo into Alyth</td></tr>
<tr><td>11:20</td><td>mixed freight</td><td>N/A</td><td>northbound</td><td>Beddington</td></tr>
<tr><td>12:50</td><td>mixed freight/intermodal</td><td>120 cars</td><td>northbound</td><td>Beddington</td></tr>
<tr><td>14:25</td><td>grain</td><td>N/A</td><td>northbound</td><td>Alyth</td></tr>
<tr><td>15:00</td><td>hump</td><td>N/A</td><td>pull out</td><td>Alyth</td></tr>
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Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2011-02-05_haircut_and_trains.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div>
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Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-75275390464192177452011-02-15T21:12:00.001-07:002011-02-16T21:16:27.265-07:00Snowplow and Spreader Info update<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">February 15th, 2011</span></span></div>
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After a comment left on my <a href="http://dustonthetracks.blogspot.com/2011/02/snowplow-spreader-soo.html">Snowplow, Spreader, SOO</a> post by Steve Boyko from the blog <a href="http://blog.traingeek.ca/">Confessions of a Train Geek</a>, I figured I should take a peek in my 2007 Trackside Guide and see what info there is in there about these two pieces of equipment. This is something I should have done in the first place. Oh well, better late than never I guess!</div>
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According to the guide, CP snowplow 401034 is a single track plow with wings and was built in November 1950 at CP Angus Shops in Montreal. Apparently all CP snowplows were built there. It was assigned to duty in Revelstoke.</div>
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The CP spreader 402853 was built in February 1928 by O.F. Jordan Company with Serial Number 698. It was built as a standard air-operated spreader type B for Ballast Spreader. The guide also says that it is assigned to Alyth(stored). It was numbered 406253 until 1930.</div>
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the CP snowplow 401022 that was to be sold for scrap/surplus on CP's website, it was built in October 1930 as a single track plow with wings. It was assigned to duty in Red Deer.Here is a <a href="https://www8.cpr.ca/enetp72/snp/Pages/ViewTender.aspx?Tender=2407">link</a> to the auction page. I can not guarantee how much longer it will be active.</div>
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Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-12296219346252485792011-02-04T19:53:00.002-07:002011-02-04T19:53:00.133-07:00Snowplow, Spreader, SOO<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">January 28th, 2011</span></span></div>
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That Friday after work on my way to my watering hole, I spotted something of interest in the yard at Alyth so I decided to stop to check it out. It was a CP snowplow and spreader.</div>
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The light was not good, so the pictures are a bit blurred and I tried to compensate as much as possible without increasing my ISO too high to prevent any graininess.</div><br />
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When I arrived at my observational headquarters, the hump was just pushing past my objective. On the hump were 6611 and 6614, both were SD40-2’s and both former SOO locomotives having retained their numbers when repainted with CP colours.</div>
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On the far siding were a few items of interest, some more than others.</div>
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For beginners, idling on the siding were SOO 6617 and CP 6609 which is a former SOO loco. Both are SD40-2’s and both were coupled together.</div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUd7BilNiUI/AAAAAAAABXc/Y3r7YPWEMwY/s1600/DSC_0019.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUd7BilNiUI/AAAAAAAABXc/Y3r7YPWEMwY/s320/DSC_0019.jpg" height="142" width="208" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUd7CrL_tsI/AAAAAAAABXg/v_QwKjexONg/s1600/DSC_0020.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUd7CrL_tsI/AAAAAAAABXg/v_QwKjexONg/s320/DSC_0020.jpg" height="142" width="208" /></a></td></tr></table><br />
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Next in line was bulkhead flat car number CP 421202 that was coupled to the nose of 1641 which is a GP9. Coupled on the back of 1641 was a GMD SW1200RS numbered 1154.</div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUd7XiqRh1I/AAAAAAAABXs/KquPfDQwQWc/s1600/DSC_0024.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUd7XiqRh1I/AAAAAAAABXs/KquPfDQwQWc/s320/DSC_0024.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUd7vVkV7ZI/AAAAAAAABXw/C1LSeAEloFg/s1600/DSC_0013.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUd7vVkV7ZI/AAAAAAAABXw/C1LSeAEloFg/s320/DSC_0013.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUd7w_RZXHI/AAAAAAAABX0/Lv_LVLugHjU/s1600/DSC_0008.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUd7w_RZXHI/AAAAAAAABX0/Lv_LVLugHjU/s320/DSC_0008.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td></tr></table><br />
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After that were the most interesting items there that evening, a snowplow and a spreader. The snowplow is numbered CP 401034. After seeing an identical snowplow, CP 401022, on CP’s website that was dated 1930 and being sold as scrap, I’m assuming that this one is also 1930’ish. The spreader was number 402853 and the interesting part about it was that there was no cab on it.</div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td>
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After that the light was quite insufficient for anymore pictures, so I headed towards my favourite watering hole for some prime rib, a cold beer, some pool and random chit chat with friends.</div>
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Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-82667023396359032112011-01-29T04:22:00.000-07:002011-01-29T04:22:34.574-07:00CAT Heavy Equipment At Alderside<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">January 15th, 2011</span></span></div><br />
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On the afternoon of the 15th, I was heading out to visit some family in Turner Valley. As I was driving down highway 2A, I was scanning the horizon to the east as I usually do when I drive that stretch. The MacLeod Sub parallels the highway down into and past High River to almost Azure, but CP only runs regularly up to the Cargill plant to do some switching. When I got near Aldersyde, something caught my eye immediately and it suddenly occurred to me that I had left my camera at home.</div><br />
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What I saw was 13 flat decks with some heavy equipment on them. There really was no point in stopping as I had nothing to view them with from a distance. So I figured I would grab a few shot on the following day and on my way home that night I made sure that they were still there. I was happy to see the silhouettes barely visible in the moonlight indicating that they had not moved.</div><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">January 16th, 2011</span></span></div><br />
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A bit after lunch time, I headed out to Aldersyde to see if I could get a few snap shots of the CAT equipment. So I went straight to the grade crossing at Aldersyde took a picture of 5954, an SD40-2, sitting on the storage track idling. The bad thing about it being winter with lots of snow around this area, you can’t just walk out into the field to get a half decent shot. Oh well, just have to wait until summer for the "half decent shot" season.</div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtLvg8FOI/AAAAAAAABV8/qsV9diHH288/s1600/DSC_0336.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtLvg8FOI/AAAAAAAABV8/qsV9diHH288/s320/DSC_0336.jpg" height="142" width="208" /></a></td></tr></table><br />
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I then headed back to the highway and take some shots of the CAT equipment from there. Thank heavens for a 300mm zoom lens. I was able to get some decent shot and was also able to read some of the reporting marks and equipment model numbers. I would have to come back another day to try and get the reporting marks that I could not see. There were a total of 13 flat cars with various pieces of equipment.</div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtMcBvwyI/AAAAAAAABWA/xE1mhflXR3k/s1600/DSC_0337.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtMcBvwyI/AAAAAAAABWA/xE1mhflXR3k/s320/DSC_0337.jpg" height="142" width="208" /></a></td><td rowspan="2"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtM486EjI/AAAAAAAABWE/VIvkpwjosLI/s1600/DSC_0338.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtM486EjI/AAAAAAAABWE/VIvkpwjosLI/s320/DSC_0338.jpg" height="142" width="208" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtNcYzrEI/AAAAAAAABWI/Y537h3HYNa0/s1600/DSC_0339.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtNcYzrEI/AAAAAAAABWI/Y537h3HYNa0/s320/DSC_0339.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtN3caipI/AAAAAAAABWM/NXwG1nptbAk/s1600/DSC_0340.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtN3caipI/AAAAAAAABWM/NXwG1nptbAk/s320/DSC_0340.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtOomu7NI/AAAAAAAABWQ/I31IS5XSxAE/s1600/DSC_0341.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtOomu7NI/AAAAAAAABWQ/I31IS5XSxAE/s320/DSC_0341.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtPLI6BFI/AAAAAAAABWU/fBbwaU7XYKg/s1600/DSC_0342.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtPLI6BFI/AAAAAAAABWU/fBbwaU7XYKg/s320/DSC_0342.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtPxCUdEI/AAAAAAAABWY/3VVUZlRO5WU/s1600/DSC_0343.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtPxCUdEI/AAAAAAAABWY/3VVUZlRO5WU/s320/DSC_0343.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtQYCYeeI/AAAAAAAABWc/TyhNiy-bbQc/s1600/DSC_0344.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtQYCYeeI/AAAAAAAABWc/TyhNiy-bbQc/s320/DSC_0344.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtRBj7TmI/AAAAAAAABWg/MIYyiKiM3RM/s1600/DSC_0345.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtRBj7TmI/AAAAAAAABWg/MIYyiKiM3RM/s320/DSC_0345.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td></tr></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" summary=""><tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtRpnJwBI/AAAAAAAABWk/4G1CP9QzKCk/s1600/DSC_0346.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtRpnJwBI/AAAAAAAABWk/4G1CP9QzKCk/s320/DSC_0346.jpg" height="61"width="95" /></a></td><td rowspan="2"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtSyITMYI/AAAAAAAABWs/uRCD5eRWsDQ/s1600/DSC_0348.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtSyITMYI/AAAAAAAABWs/uRCD5eRWsDQ/s320/DSC_0348.jpg" height="142" width="208" /></a></td><td rowspan="2"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtTquYtJI/AAAAAAAABWw/f8YzXZySvB4/s1600/DSC_0349.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtTquYtJI/AAAAAAAABWw/f8YzXZySvB4/s320/DSC_0349.jpg" height="142" width="208" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtSBCgP0I/AAAAAAAABWo/Ssa_fydzGyc/s1600/DSC_0347.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtSBCgP0I/AAAAAAAABWo/Ssa_fydzGyc/s320/DSC_0347.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td></tr></table><br />
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I also took a few overall shots, but didn’t hang around too long as it was cold with a good wind chill. I was out there for about 3 minutes and my hands and face were frozen.</div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtUPm_tYI/AAAAAAAABW0/qZKGjs_0BNg/s1600/DSC_0350.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtUPm_tYI/AAAAAAAABW0/qZKGjs_0BNg/s320/DSC_0350.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtUgQjPNI/AAAAAAAABW4/Jn8M_1XAWvk/s1600/DSC_0351.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtUgQjPNI/AAAAAAAABW4/Jn8M_1XAWvk/s320/DSC_0351.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtVi4-nkI/AAAAAAAABXA/WmVSH9m-pJE/s1600/DSC_0353.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtVi4-nkI/AAAAAAAABXA/WmVSH9m-pJE/s320/DSC_0353.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtWEhkixI/AAAAAAAABXE/55GR8bNJzuY/s1600/DSC_0354.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtWEhkixI/AAAAAAAABXE/55GR8bNJzuY/s320/DSC_0354.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtVMlKOMI/AAAAAAAABW8/h0dNMfCmZl0/s1600/DSC_0352.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPtVMlKOMI/AAAAAAAABW8/h0dNMfCmZl0/s320/DSC_0352.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td></tr></table><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">January 18th, 2011</span></span></div><br />
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The evening of the 18th, while on my way home from work, I was driving down Highway 2 and noticed the headlights of a train at Aldersyde. I had to drive all the way down to the Mazeppa turn off to turn around. When I finally got to the grade crossing CP 5954 and CP 9547, an AC4400, were shunting some of the hopper and tankers. As they were doing so, some of the flat decks went by and I quickly wrote down reporting marks, but still was not able to get all of the ones I was missing.</div><br />
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One flat deck with an interesting reporting mark did catch my eye. It was TZPR 300004.</div><br />
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After they pushed the flat decks back into the storage siding, they headed to the Cargill plant with several cars to do some shunting there. I headed home as it was dark and I was hungry.</div><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">January 20th, 2011</span></span></div><br />
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On the way home from work the evening of the 20th, I stopped by Aldersyde to see what was happening. This time I remembered to bring my scanner with me. It was dark and 5954 and her crew were nowhere in sight. I could hear a bit of crackle on the scanner which meant that they were already down by the Cargill plant. As for the CAT equipment, all I could see were some silhouettes on a siding on the east side of the mainline. It seemed as though they were on a downhill siding that I did not realize was still there. I wondered if that was where the equipment was to be unloaded.</div><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">January 22nd, 2011</span></span></div><br />
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Late that afternoon, I headed out to see if the flat decks were still around which they were but without their loads. I pulled out my note book and looked at my notes to see which flat decks I was missing numbers for. Two were missing numbers and two were missing a single digit. So I pulled out my camera, zoomed in and with the process of elimination was able to complete the inventory chart listed below.</div><br />
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<tr border="1"><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="135">RAILROAD</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="120">REPORTING MARK</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col">LOAD</th></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>HTTX 93504</td><td>336D EXCAVATOR</td></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>HTTX 93862</td><td>345D EXCAVATOR</td></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>HTTX 93156</td><td>336D EXCAVATOR & 938H LOADER</td></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>HTTX 93035</td><td>938H LOADER & 336D EXCAVATOR</td></tr>
<tr><td>TAZEWELL & PEORIA</td><td>TZPR 300004</td><td>336D EXCAVATOR & 336D EXCAVATOR</td></tr>
<tr><td>TAZEWELL & PEORIA</td><td>TZPR 300030</td><td>336D EXCAVATOR & 336D EXCAVATOR</td></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>HTTX 97440</td><td>627G SCRAPER</td></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>HTTX 97461</td><td>627G SCRAPER</td></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>TTHX 97159</td><td>D9T DOZER</td></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>TTHX 92698</td><td>D9T DOZER</td></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>TTHX 97190</td><td>D9T DOZER</td></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>TTHX 98223</td><td>D6T DOZER</td></tr>
<tr><td>TTX</td><td>TTHX 92584</td><td>D9T DOZER</td></tr>
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Here are some pictures of the flat decks I was missing the reporting marks for and another shot of 5954.</div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPvJieKb7I/AAAAAAAABXI/HutGnc4c64U/s1600/DSC_0001.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPvJieKb7I/AAAAAAAABXI/HutGnc4c64U/s320/DSC_0001.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPvKdambjI/AAAAAAAABXM/NSmTIqZ4s4s/s1600/DSC_0004.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPvKdambjI/AAAAAAAABXM/NSmTIqZ4s4s/s320/DSC_0004.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPvLPQslII/AAAAAAAABXQ/Yxp2JCjk1Hs/s1600/DSC_0005.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPvLPQslII/AAAAAAAABXQ/Yxp2JCjk1Hs/s320/DSC_0005.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPvLm_OQPI/AAAAAAAABXU/hKD2aPbJrtY/s1600/DSC_0006.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPvLm_OQPI/AAAAAAAABXU/hKD2aPbJrtY/s320/DSC_0006.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPvMKdc7CI/AAAAAAAABXY/b1POGXhCNhQ/s1600/DSC_0039.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TUPvMKdc7CI/AAAAAAAABXY/b1POGXhCNhQ/s320/DSC_0039.jpg" height="61" width="95" /></a></td></tr></table><br />
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All but two of the flat decks were TTX owned. The reporting marks for six of them started with HTTX and the other five started with TTHX. With a little bit of research, I found the differences between the two flat deck types although they generally serve the same purpose.</div><br />
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The HTTX flat decks are “equipped with 38 heavy duty chains, with snubbers and turnbuckles, each secured to movable and retractable tie-down winches in 4 longitudinal channels, for transporting large earth moving equipment” and the TTHX flat decks are “equipped with heavy duty chains anchored to removable stake pocket castings. When tie-downs are removed, car becomes same as 60' car stencilled MTTX".</div><br />
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I quoted these explanations from a website that I recently found called <a href="http://www.nakina.net/index.html">Canadian Freight Cars</a> and it has pretty extensive listings for CNR, CPR, Canadian, Private and Other. I found the definitions for the <a href="http://www.nakina.net/other/report/reportttx.html">HTTX and TTHX</a> flat decks in the "Other" category. There is a ton of information to be found on this site.</div><br />
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Another website that I refer to quite frequently to identify freight cars is called <a href="http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/markindex.pl">Canadian Freight Car Gallery</a>. I like this database because there is a Reporting Marks Index which is very useful if you do not know who owns the freight car. After you find the reporting mark you are looking for, it brings you to another listing of freight cars for that reporting mark. Each listing here brings you to a page with a photo and other relevant info about that particular freight car such as manufacturer, year built and also the photographer, location spotted and date spotted.</div><br />
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The other two lat decks that are identified with the TZPR marks are from the <a href="http://www.gwrr.com/operations/railroads/north_america/tazewell_peoria_railroad.be">Tazewell and Peoria Railroad</a> which is a shortline that runs about 24 miles of track in Peoria County and Tazewell County in Illinois. It was acquired by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. in 2004. There is some information that can be found on their <a href="http://www.gwrr.com/operations/railroads/north_america/tazewell_peoria_railroad.be">website</a> and there is also a short blurb on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazewell_and_Peoria_Railroad">Wikipedia</a>.</div><br />
Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-56237815609972311882011-01-22T13:07:00.004-07:002011-01-23T00:22:13.151-07:00Macleod Sub Auto Rack Storage - Part 3<div style="text-align: justify;">
If you wish to follow along in Google Earth, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-09-06_macleod_sub_auto_racks-part3.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">September 6th, 2010</span></span></div><br />
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This is the conclusion of the three part series of the Macleod Sub Auto Rack Storage. In <a href="http://dustonthetracks.blogspot.com/2010/10/macleod-sub-auto-rack-storage-part-2.html">part 2</a>, I posted about the first 27 auto racks that were stored on the MacLeod Subdivision. Unfortunately for part 3, I am only able to show pictures and complete info for 2 auto racks and road names for most of the remaining 12 cars. </div>
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Back in September I was attacked by a hawk which prevented me from photographing the last few auto racks of the 39 in the second block. My intention was to wait until the first weekend of November. I figured that the hawk would be gone by then. I also wanted to get back out there to finish the job before the first snow fall, but a combination of time, work and scheduling did not permit this to happen. I had driven by a couple times after work to make sure that they were still there and figured I could knock off the last few over the Christmas holidays regardless of snow or not.</div>
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I drove out there late afternoon one day after Christmas to check the conditions and snow build up, but as I came over the hill they were all gone. I was not overly thrilled at this discovery. All the signs indicated that they were moved sometime in December when the snow was on the ground and probably not too long before the holidays at that.</div>
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It’s too bad that I did not get to finish this “inventory” as it was kind of fun to do. I had also intended to do the same to a few blocks of coal hoppers other rail cars that were stored on the Lomond Spur out by Herronton, but they were all taken away back in late September.</div>
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Here is the partially completed list of what the last few auto racks.</div>
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<tr border="1"><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="100">RAILROAD</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="175">REPORTING MARK</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="90">TYPE</th></tr>
<tr><td>BNSF</td><td>TTGX 997504</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>NS</td><td>NS 110274</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>FERROMEX</td><td>TTGX ?</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>NS</td><td>TTGX ?</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CONRAIL</td><td>TTGX ?</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>?</td><td>TTGX ?</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>NS</td><td>TTGX ?</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>?</td><td>TTGX ?</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX ?</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CSX</td><td>TTGX ?</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX ?</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CSX</td><td>TTGX ?</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
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Here are the last two pictures that I have of the auto racks that were stored on the MacLeod Sub. The Norfolk Southern car is a bi-level articulated AutoMax carrier. That was the first time I ever saw one in real life.</div>
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As a final thought, the next time I set out to do something like this I'll think back to this experience and finish the job as quickly as possible.</div>
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Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-09-06_macleod_sub_auto_racks-part3.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div><br />
Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-62951460174243278102011-01-14T20:16:00.055-07:002011-01-14T20:16:00.901-07:00An Hour At Alyth<div style="text-align: justify;">
If you wish to follow along in Google Earth, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-04-02_an_hour_at_alyth.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">April 2nd, 2010</span></span></div>
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One Sunday back in April, I was observing some action at Alyth at my usual location. I was only there for about an hour, but did manage to see the hump backing in, one train arriving from Edmonton, two trains leaving Calgary heading west, and a few locos hanging around.</div>
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I arrived at around 16:30 and as I was arriving, the Hump in the process of pushing a train over the hump into the classification tracks. Someday I would like to be able to see a hump operation in action, but I know that my chances are very slim. The lead on the hump was 6612 with 5795 both SD40-2's. An interesting bit of info is that 6612 use to be a former SOO locomotive.</div>
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As the hump was pushing in, a train lead by 9635 started pulling out heading west. There were a few auto racks at the front and the remainder of the train was intermodal. About halfway through was 9540 and that was all for locomotives on this train. It wasn't an overly long train which would explain only two locos. I would assume that the train would probably pickup another locomotive or two somewhere along the way before they reached the spirals at Field in British Columbia. Both locomotive were AC4400's.</div>
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After it had gone by, I spotted a familiar paint scheme. Over by the diesel shops were FP9A's 4107 & 4106 and F9B 1900. 4106 & 4107 are the main power for the Royal Canadian Pacific passenger train. Also by the shops were CEFX 1050, CP 9753 and CP 8275, two AC4400's and a GP9. And further into the yard you could see the hump still working and another set of SD40's waiting, but they never came out while I was around and was not able to identify road numbers. Notice the blue sign indicating that track P$ if closed as there are people either inspecting or working on some of those tankers, or some other reason.</div>
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From out nowhere a team of locomotives, 8646 and 8837, in reverse were on the track heading into the wye and more than likely to turn around to latch up to a westbound train. Here is an opportunity to identify the differences between an AC4400 and an ES44AC locomotive as the two look very similar. If you look at the second picture, there are two major differences between the two locomotives. The first is the trucks and the second is the radiator hood. You can also notice the rear headlight is a single on 8646 and double on 8837, but this may not be for all railroads as some have their own preferences for headlights. There may be a few other subtle differences, but the trucks and the radiator are the two visibly major ones.</div>
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Sitting there all alone on one of the far tracks was an Alberta grain hopper number ALPX 628373 with the "Take an Alberta Break...visit Medicine Hat" slogan. It must have been a bad order or something. You can find a fairly extensive list of all the Alberta grain hopper at <a href="http://www.barraclou.com/rail/cars/alberta.html">Barraclou.com</a></div>
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About ten minutes later, a container train came in off of the wye from the north. A couple AC4400's, CEFX 1047 and CP 8604, were in the lead of this one.</div>
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I took several shots of some of the containers as well for modeling references.</div>
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After quite a few well cars there were a few box cars and hoppers and a block tankers of which I also photographed for modeling references.</div>
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As the train was going by, 8646 and 8837 showed up reversing to somewhere in the yard out of sight.</div>
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About another ten minutes later, another train was leaving the yard heading west with 8834 and 8606 pulling, and 8524 at some point in the middle. This train was all intermodal. As the train was pulling out, a couple other railfans showed and we chatted for a bit.</div>
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On one of the maintenance tracks on the far side, there were 6 locomotives that had been sitting there since my arrival. They were 5793, 3110, 3084, 9779, StL&H 1625, and 1696. Their types were SD40-2, GP38-2, AC4400, GP9 and GP9. Steve Boyko from the blog <a href="http://blog.traingeek.ca/">Confessions of a Train Geek</a> saw <a href="http://blog.traingeek.ca/2011/01/units-at-winnipeg-diesel-repair-shop.html">1625 in Winnipeg</a> at the diesel shop there and posted a picture on his blog. He updates his blog frequently, so there is no shortage of good info to read and videos to watch.</div>
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As I chatted with the other railfans, they mentioned that there was a KCS unit around the back side of the diesel shops. They said that there were a couple clean SD70's at Sarcee Yard. I said my goodbyes and headed out to see if I could find the KCS unit.</div>
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When I did find the KCS locomotive, I couldn't get a really clear view of it. The three pictures below are the best I could get. KCS 2500 is a GP40.</div>
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Apparently KCS 2500 was on loan to CP as a test unit. It and 27 other SD40's and GP40's were converted to SD22ECO Locomotives and refitted with the 710ECO diesel engine. The EMD 710 engine was used for its "record of reliability and service ability in rugged locomotive applications" as is stated in a KCS news release. You can read details on the <a href="http://www.kcsi.com/en-us/Media/Pages/NewsReleases.aspx?release=466">KCS website</a>.</div>
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After that I headed up to CN's Sarcee Yard for <a href="http://dustonthetracks.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-new-cnery.html">Some New CNery</a> to spot those SD70's.</div>
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Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-04-02_an_hour_at_alyth.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div>
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Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-77265341723670565842011-01-09T09:23:00.010-07:002011-01-09T21:20:32.619-07:00Some New CNery<div style="text-align: justify;">
If you wish to follow along in Google Earth to see my stops and travels, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-04-02_some_new_cnery.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">April 2nd, 2010</span></span></div>
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After having spent an hour around Alyth, I headed to CN’s Sarcee Yard up oon 50th Ave to follow up on a sighting tip. While I was at Alyth, a few other railfans had showed up and told me that there were a couple nice new and clean SD70’s and a couple dirty ones.</div>
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I parked in a corner of the Esso Truck Stop parking lot and couldn’t have timed it better. As I was parking the car, the 50th Ave crossing signals were already flashing. Coming from the north were three locos and and string of about 20 rail cars. Leading was 8867 with 8885 and 7078 close behind, two SD70M-2’s and a GP9.</div>
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I found it pretty odd that three locomotives were used to pull some 20 cars. A multitude of scenarios ran through my head as to why, and the best I could think of was they arrived with a much longer train and performed a few switching manoeuvres before the end of the shift.</div>
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As they went by, I snapped a few shots of the stacked containers, you know, for modeling purposes.</div>
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They pulled up past me to clear the second switch down leading into the yard for which they were blocking traffic on Barlow Trail. Once the switch was thrown, they proceeded to back into the yard. I assumed that they were dropping the string at the intermodal part of the yard since they were pulling a few stacks.</div>
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I decided to change location and a place to park somewhere closer to the other locomotives I had seen further into SarceeYard when I first arrived. So I ended up parking in a driveway on 3oth street and walk down from there. Sitting there on the tracks were a GP9 and two SD70M-2’s numbered 7077, 8890 and 8912 respectively. The SD70’s were so clean and shiny. The sign of use was a bit of dirtiness on 8890’s rear nose.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Of all the more recent locomotives from the past decade, i have to say that the SD70's are one of my favorites. To be more specific, those with the newer style nose, the SD70ACE and SD70M-2.</div>
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A few minutes later the loco trio that I saw when I first arrived pulled up on the far track and sat idling. At that point, I figured that the action was done and I had seen what I wanted to see, so I headed straight to my usual watering hole for a satisfying cold one to end a satisfying afternoon of railfaning.</div>
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Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-04-02_some_new_cnery.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div>
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Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-38294793977239810502011-01-03T08:48:00.013-07:002011-01-03T08:48:00.053-07:00Lunch Time Track Work<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">October 5th, 2010</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />I decided to head down to Alyth Yard at lunch to see what was going on for train traffic. When I got there, there was no hump and no waiting trains. There was however a track maintenance crew working on the ballast down from the 12th Street Tower. I pulled out my camera and started shooting.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />There was no action coming from the tamper so I turned to the ballast regulator who was spreading and, well, obviously regulating newly dumped ballast. Those suckers sure make a hell of a lot of noise. The attachment on the front is basically used to spread the ballast. Inside are many long rubber rods, I think they are rubber, that are attached to a spinning shaft. And as you can see in the second picture, rocks bounce around as it was spreading the ballast more evenly for the tamper. In the third picture the driver is making use of one of the “wing” plows to spread ballast.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Further up past 12th Street Tower were 3 ballast dumpers. I couldn’t get the complete reporting marks for all three, but the first one is CP 455162, the second is CP 4553## and the third is CP 455###.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />These two pictures show the difference in the newer ballast and the existing lighter ballast.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />The ballast regulator had stopped what it was doing for a few minutes and I saw that the tamper revved up and started moving towards me, so I walked down to meet up with it. In the background of the first picture, the two guys standing are the surveyors. One is behind the tamper’s laser levelling equipment and is holding the receiver of an RTK GPS surveying system. The little white space ship above his head is the GPS receiver mounted on a surveying rod. The control pad is out of sight. In picture two, the tamper is about to vibrate the ballast into place at one of the many switches in Alyth Yard. In the last picture the rods are still vibrating as they are pulled out and lowered a second time.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Shortly after that, an intermodal train came through from BC heading to the Sheppard Intermodal facility. In the lead was CP 8873 followed by CP 9732, an ES44AC and AC4400 respectively. Bringing up the rear was CP 8517 which was an AC4400.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />I took several shots of some of the containers and also a few of some of the couplers as they flew by. The last two pictures of the couplers are interesting. They are used to keep sets of three well cars always coupled together. I knew they existed but never really noticed them before or ever thought of looking for those particular types of well cars. That is until I bought a set of Walthers 3 unit CP well cars when I was attending the Edmonton model train in September with my model railroad group.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />As the train was going by, one of the supervisors that was talking with the tamper crew, walked over to me and said that rail traffic was really busy that day. Before he could escape me I took the opportunity to ask what exactly they were doing. He told me that they were doing preventative maintenance before winter on the track ballast and raising it up by 6 inches to raise the switches out of the “holes” or the low areas. This is so water does not collect and freeze at the switch leads and operators. As some may know, because of the chinooks, Calgary goes through some pretty drastic freeze-thaw cycles, sometimes a couple in the matter of a few hours. Temperatures can below 0 Celsius in the morning, 15 Celsius in the afternoon and back to below 0 again. After the ballast work is done, a surveying crew surveys the rails to make sure that the rails are at the right elevations.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />I then asked him why the ballast was a different colour that the current ballast and where did it come from. He explained to me that with all the derailments and washouts that apparently there is a serious shortage of ballast, so the ballast that they were using that day was recycled ballast. It was just dirty from being dug up and would wash off after a couple rainfalls. As they dig up old ballast from removing unused switches and abandoned lines, they run it through sifters to remove the small unwanted rock, then ship it to where it is needed. By that time the train had gone by and he then indicated that he had to go check up on the other crew.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />There were two locations that came to mind immediately as to where that ballast probably came from and both are on the MacLeod Subdivision. Some of it is probably from near the Azure grain elevator where they’ve removed the rail ties and dug up the ballast. This happened sometime between May 2010 and September 2010. The other location I’m thinking about is further south on Highway 2 near Nolan. Back in July I was heading to a wedding in Lethbridge and noticed that there were work crews digging up ballast and sub-roadbed.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />The following two pictures taken back in September show the reclaimed grade crossing near Azure. The first photo is heading towards High River and you can see the auto racks I posted about back in September and October. The second is looking towards Azure and you can just see the top of the grain elevator.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Just before I left I took a shot of some of the workers driving spikes after the tamper had gone by.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />At that point I was running out of time and headed back to the office.</div>
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Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-35709639348948721082011-01-01T13:21:00.003-07:002011-01-02T21:35:24.803-07:00Happy New Years!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">January 1st, 2011</span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Happy New Years! I hope everyone has had a safe New Years Eve and for the year 2011 to be to good for all.</div><br />
Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-79824107433076296812010-10-10T21:01:00.000-06:002010-10-10T21:01:01.673-06:00My Camera Gear And Other Stuff<div style="text-align: justify;">I figured I should write up an entry about what gear I have and carry around when I'm out photographing trains or other train and railroad related subjects.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">My Camera body is a Nikon D80 10.2Mpx. It is a great camera and I've had no problems so far. Since I shoot in RAW only, I do wish the buffer was a bit bigger up to 9 or 10 compared to 6 or 6+1 as I like to call it. There is a small pause between the 6th and 7th shot. The D80 uses SD cards so my main card is a Sandisk Extreme III 8GB that holds near 800+ shots in RAW even though the display initially shows 655. I also have a Sandisk Extreme III 2GB card and Sandisk Ultra II 1GB card.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">I own 3 lenses at the moment. My first lens is a Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-70mm 3.5-4.5 G ED, which came in a kit with the body. My second lens is a Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-300mm 4.5-5.6 G ED VR II. At the time, this lens was about $525 CAD and is a pretty good investment if you're looking for a fairly decent zoom lens. My most recent purchase is a Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 12-24mm 4 G ED, although I don't expect to take very many train shots with this lens. I bought more for the wide angle feature for photographing landscapes and buildings like grain elevators. Maybe I'll try to catch a prairie train shot with it. This one was just over $1000 at the time of purchase.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">I also have the MB-D80 vertical grip with two batteries which gives a combined estimation of 5000 shots before I have to recharge the batteries. I usually average between 3000 and 3500 depending how long I leave the camera on, if I'm using the flash, do alot of playback, or playing around with settings in the menu. Cold is also a factor on charge life and reduces the life of the batteries fast. They do regain some of their charge if you can warm them up. Although the MB-D80 does add weight with the extra battery, it is handy for it's vertical grip functions making it less awkward to shoot and of course the extra power longevity.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">One purchase that I'm happy about is my Uniden TrunkTracker III model number BC246T. It is capable of holding 2500 channels on average. It depends on how much information I use in the tag to identify the frequency. It was a bit more than what I wanted to pay, but was worth it in my opnion. Besides it was the only choice I had that was decent.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Other items of interest are a Kenko 67mm circular polarizer, an infrared remote shutter release Nikon ML-L3, a pair of compact binoculars, some cleaning supplies, extra Sandisk SD cards.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">All of the above fits neatly into my Crumpler Six Million Dollar Home carry bag.<br />
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Two other items that I would not be able to live with out is my tripod and ball head. Apart from their normal positions, the legs can be spread out to almost flat. Although I do have to slide out the neck all the way and switch it to a horizontal position. In a stand up position with the neck fully extended, I can just manage to look through the view finder and can barely read the control display on the top.<br />
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The list:<br />
<ul><li>Nikon D80</li>
<li>Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-70mm 3.5-4.5G ED, 67mm diameter<br />
</li>
<li>Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-300mm 4.5-5.6G ED VR II, 67mm diameter</li>
<li>Nikon AF-S Nikkor 12-24mm 4G ED, 77mm diameter Aspherical</li>
<li>Manfrotto 055X Pro tripod</li>
<li>Manfrotto 488RC2 ball head<br />
</li>
<li>Kenko 67mm circular polarizer</li>
<li>MB-D80 vertical grip</li>
<li>2 Nikon EN-EL3e batteries<br />
</li>
<li>Sandisk Extreme III 8GB SD card</li>
<li>Sandisk Extreme III 2GB SD card</li>
<li>Sandisk Ultra II 1GB SD card</li>
<li>Nikon ML-L3 infrared remote shutter release<br />
</li>
<li>Uniden TrunkTracker III BC246T</li>
<li>Extra AA batteries for scanner.<br />
</li>
<li>compact binoculars</li>
<li>cleaning supplies</li>
<li>Crumpler Six Million Dollar Home carry bag</li>
<li>Canadian Trackside Guide 2007 Edition</li>
<li>2 different map books of Alberta</li>
<li>A black journal spiral bound notebook</li>
<li>Pens<br />
</li>
</ul>Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-35245949598958656912010-10-02T10:20:00.015-06:002011-01-15T14:05:50.921-07:00Macleod Sub Auto Rack Storage - Part 2<div style="text-align: justify;">If you wish to follow along in Google Earth to see my stops and travels, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-09-06_macleod_sub_auto_racks-part2.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">September 6th, 2010</span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Last time I posted about the first block of auto racks in storage on the MacLeod Subdivision. This post will list the first 27 out of the 39 auto racks from the second block further south. I’m only posting about the first 27 cars because when I was out there taking pictures and writing down notes, I was attacked by a very agitated hawk. I wrote about this back on <a href="http://dustonthetracks.blogspot.com/2010/09/open-season-on-people-hawk-attack.html">September the 6th</a> about my experience that day.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">I started at the south end of the block and worked my way north from Township Road 182 (594th Ave) on foot. There are a few clumps of trees along the way which made difficult to take pictures of some of the auto racks. It had rained the day before and the grass had not had time to entirely dry out in the thicker areas, so by the time I got to where I stopped, I was soaked from the knees down.</div><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Below are my notes in list format of the railroad name, reporting marks and type for the first 18 auto racks. The order of the list depicts the order of the auto racks as they are on the track starting with the first auto rack north of Township Road 182 with UP TTGX 995204 and ending with BNSF TTGX 965095.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="0" style="width: 365px;"><tbody>
<tr border="1"><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="100">RAILROAD</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="175">REPORTING MARK</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="90">TYPE</th></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 995204</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 604313</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 991678</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>NS</td><td>TTGX 996582</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 991757</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CN</td><td>CNA 712721</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 991277</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>NS</td><td>TTGX 980664</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CSX</td><td>TTGX 253344</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 255721</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CP RAIL</td><td>TTGX 981526</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 516921</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 965046</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 982758</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CONRAIL</td><td>TTGX 963142</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CONRAIL</td><td>TTGX 970789</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CSX</td><td>TTGX 931189</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 159847</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>TFM</td><td>TTGX 994737</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CONRAIL</td><td>TTGX 603753</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>FERROMEX</td><td>TTGX 158413</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>TFM</td><td>TTGX 995796</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>TFM</td><td>TTGX 995651</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CSX</td><td>TTGX 152538</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 994965</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>BNSF</td><td>TTGX 997339</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>BNSF</td><td>TTGX 965095</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">The following photos of the auto racks are ordered similar to the list above in a left to right, up and down direction.</div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW0WPrqJBI/AAAAAAAABH8/cDlKKIZQ1JM/s1600/DSC_0001.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW0WPrqJBI/AAAAAAAABH8/cDlKKIZQ1JM/s320/DSC_0001.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW0YU02ZfI/AAAAAAAABIE/xMP40x1_3xI/s1600/DSC_0002.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW0YU02ZfI/AAAAAAAABIE/xMP40x1_3xI/s320/DSC_0002.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW0qQsph4I/AAAAAAAABIU/Hlx8bNLOPK4/s1600/DSC_0003.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW0qQsph4I/AAAAAAAABIU/Hlx8bNLOPK4/s320/DSC_0003.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW0bCK7mXI/AAAAAAAABIM/WoNVLHJcsug/s1600/DSC_0004.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW0bCK7mXI/AAAAAAAABIM/WoNVLHJcsug/s320/DSC_0004.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW0v5dvuuI/AAAAAAAABIc/CSu-TxfUwXQ/s1600/DSC_0005.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW0v5dvuuI/AAAAAAAABIc/CSu-TxfUwXQ/s320/DSC_0005.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW29xZWa7I/AAAAAAAABIk/O9kSMY6iSCo/s1600/DSC_0007.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW29xZWa7I/AAAAAAAABIk/O9kSMY6iSCo/s320/DSC_0007.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW3u2l5TzI/AAAAAAAABIs/9VaomwLOLPg/s1600/DSC_0010.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW3u2l5TzI/AAAAAAAABIs/9VaomwLOLPg/s320/DSC_0010.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW3xS6UxOI/AAAAAAAABI0/WrRJ3XxzJm4/s1600/DSC_0011.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW3xS6UxOI/AAAAAAAABI0/WrRJ3XxzJm4/s320/DSC_0011.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW30UtWNuI/AAAAAAAABI8/BJ2xXBjpkN0/s1600/DSC_0012.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW30UtWNuI/AAAAAAAABI8/BJ2xXBjpkN0/s320/DSC_0012.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW33TpQiMI/AAAAAAAABJE/HW9e1FcXR54/s1600/DSC_0013.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW33TpQiMI/AAAAAAAABJE/HW9e1FcXR54/s320/DSC_0013.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW36YvKu3I/AAAAAAAABJM/INcpuRpWWHU/s1600/DSC_0014.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW36YvKu3I/AAAAAAAABJM/INcpuRpWWHU/s320/DSC_0014.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW39NZmnVI/AAAAAAAABJU/aDkFKRKQXjU/s1600/DSC_0015.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW39NZmnVI/AAAAAAAABJU/aDkFKRKQXjU/s320/DSC_0015.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6KMKOXxI/AAAAAAAABJc/egqpkxSnQDQ/s1600/DSC_0016.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6KMKOXxI/AAAAAAAABJc/egqpkxSnQDQ/s320/DSC_0016.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6MQmmNaI/AAAAAAAABJk/gPHsL5Gtv_A/s1600/DSC_0017.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6MQmmNaI/AAAAAAAABJk/gPHsL5Gtv_A/s320/DSC_0017.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6QLzjLhI/AAAAAAAABJs/W6ZcCcRI8qM/s1600/DSC_0018.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6QLzjLhI/AAAAAAAABJs/W6ZcCcRI8qM/s320/DSC_0018.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6S_KhPYI/AAAAAAAABJ0/2-4DtXvTy_I/s1600/DSC_0019.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6S_KhPYI/AAAAAAAABJ0/2-4DtXvTy_I/s320/DSC_0019.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6WH7DwwI/AAAAAAAABJ8/2X1HaMz0d7Q/s1600/DSC_0020.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6WH7DwwI/AAAAAAAABJ8/2X1HaMz0d7Q/s320/DSC_0020.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6aYVDscI/AAAAAAAABKE/XBdG5PS1uM8/s1600/DSC_0021.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6aYVDscI/AAAAAAAABKE/XBdG5PS1uM8/s320/DSC_0021.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6c3z7lmI/AAAAAAAABKM/IM6cMwcrsIM/s1600/DSC_0022.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6c3z7lmI/AAAAAAAABKM/IM6cMwcrsIM/s320/DSC_0022.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6fQgoFbI/AAAAAAAABKU/6VNkeZ9_X7Y/s1600/DSC_0023.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6fQgoFbI/AAAAAAAABKU/6VNkeZ9_X7Y/s320/DSC_0023.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6ii-gz4I/AAAAAAAABKc/ZluYxCysUgk/s1600/DSC_0024.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6ii-gz4I/AAAAAAAABKc/ZluYxCysUgk/s320/DSC_0024.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6lJZIW9I/AAAAAAAABKk/VllGGgPDo1Q/s1600/DSC_0025.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6lJZIW9I/AAAAAAAABKk/VllGGgPDo1Q/s320/DSC_0025.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6pao7IeI/AAAAAAAABKs/2KXTpTG8ABE/s1600/DSC_0026.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6pao7IeI/AAAAAAAABKs/2KXTpTG8ABE/s320/DSC_0026.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6yOMhNTI/AAAAAAAABK0/TI4c5UZvkdo/s1600/DSC_0028.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW6yOMhNTI/AAAAAAAABK0/TI4c5UZvkdo/s320/DSC_0028.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW61H3OjSI/AAAAAAAABK8/t9RMt0QVVpI/s1600/DSC_0029.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW61H3OjSI/AAAAAAAABK8/t9RMt0QVVpI/s320/DSC_0029.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW64d0csGI/AAAAAAAABLE/C5grcIDrMUE/s1600/DSC_0030.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW64d0csGI/AAAAAAAABLE/C5grcIDrMUE/s320/DSC_0030.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW67FfucmI/AAAAAAAABLM/_zAsbsyg668/s1600/DSC_0031.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW67FfucmI/AAAAAAAABLM/_zAsbsyg668/s320/DSC_0031.jpg" height="113" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">You will notice that in the last photo the doors facing me on either end of the auto rack are opened. It appeared to be the same for the remainder of the auto racks.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Soon after those 27 auto racks, the agitated hawk was starting to get aggressive so I high tailed it out of there to come back later in the fall when nesting season is done and he’s gone for the winter.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-09-06_macleod_sub_auto_racks-part2.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div><br />
Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-39230519333026287612010-09-18T10:01:00.050-06:002010-10-05T20:23:24.111-06:00Elevator Music - Azure<div style="text-align: justify;">If you wish to follow along in Google Earth, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-05-09_elevator_music_-_azure.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">May 9th, 2010</span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Back in May while I was out driving around looking for something to photograph.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Back in May I took a drive out in the Southwest area of High River looking for something to photograph and that is when I first saw the auto racks. Since I had yet to investigate anything train related south of town I decided to do so. I never took any pictures of the auto racks that day. At that time the rails south of Township Road 182 (594th Ave) had been removed but the ties remained. In the distance peeking over the crest of a hill I saw recognizable shape, got distracted and went to photograph it instead.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">That shape turned out to be the Azure grain elevator. According to the blog <a href="http://vanishingsentinels.blogspot.com/search?q=azure">Vanishing Sentinels</a>, this elevator was built in 1927 for the Alberta Pacific Grain Company. It was closed in 1962 and is now privately owned.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Here are a few pictures of the Azure grain elevator.</div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW9-rwFjKI/AAAAAAAABLU/2kDu8xC1hrY/s1600/DSC_0092.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW9-rwFjKI/AAAAAAAABLU/2kDu8xC1hrY/s320/DSC_0092.jpg" height="142" width="208" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW-Bp2AabI/AAAAAAAABLc/n6-8mrKQ0Ek/s1600/DSC_0096.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW-Bp2AabI/AAAAAAAABLc/n6-8mrKQ0Ek/s320/DSC_0096.jpg" height="142" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW-Dbi__8I/AAAAAAAABLk/wqkmQatBTFw/s1600/DSC_0101.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW-Dbi__8I/AAAAAAAABLk/wqkmQatBTFw/s320/DSC_0101.jpg" height="142" width="95" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW-Fhi-8UI/AAAAAAAABLs/_axIpjHsb-4/s1600/DSC_0113.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIW-Fhi-8UI/AAAAAAAABLs/_axIpjHsb-4/s320/DSC_0113.jpg" height="142" width="95" /></a></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Here are a couple more shots from the base of the elevator in sepia.</div><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-05-09_elevator_music_-_azure.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div><br />
Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-36724646484590395472010-09-12T12:30:00.001-06:002010-09-12T12:30:00.253-06:00Yellow Near Sparwood<div style="text-align: justify;">If you wish to follow along in Google Earth, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-06-20_yellow_near_sparwood.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">June 20th, 2010</span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Back in June I was in Elko British Columbia for a weekend long bachelor party for one of my friends. I was aware that the Cranbrook Sub was close to where we were going to be, but I had not made any plans to do any serious railfaining as we were all going to be pretty busy having so good fun that the best man had in store for us.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">On the second day, we were on the Jaffray golf course and I was taking pictures of everybody, I'm not much of a golfer. I knew there was a rail line in the area but didn't know that it was so close to the golf course. As we were on the fourth or fifth hole, I could see the top part of the first distinctively yellow UP locomotive come out from behind the trees. I don’t recall how many there were or if they were all UP locomotives. I do know there was more than one. The weird thing is I never heard the train coming which is what surprised me the most. Unfortunately I never got a picture of the train as I was busy trying to photograph action shots of some of the other guys swinging their clubs.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">On my way back home, just past Sparwood I saw the tail end of a stationary potash train. When I got to the lead end, I saw five yellow Union Pacific SD90 locomotives. I just had to turn around and take some pictures.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">The interesting thing that I noticed as I was taking pictures, was that the locomotives were identified on the cabs as SD9043AC which apparently are SD90MAC’s produced with the smaller prime mover as I later found out from a friend. Also on the cab were the words “UNDER WARRANTY”.</div><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">After doing a bit of research, I found some info on Wikipedia about these particular SD90’s which is quite interesting. EMD introduced the SD90MAC in 1995 with the 6250hp (4660kW) 16 cylinder H engine which proved to have some technical problems. So EMD shipped the locomotives with the 4300hp (3210kW) 16 cylinder 710G engines and assigned the model SD90/43MAC. Apparently railroads were given the option to upgrade to the 6250hp engines, but rarely done because of reliability issues with the engine. You can read more about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_SD90MAC">SD90/43MACs</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_SD90MAC">SD90MACs</a> on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_SD90MAC">Wikipedia</a> page.</div><br />
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<tr> <th align="left" bgcolor="#333333" colspan="2" scope="row">UP SD9043AC</th> </tr>
<tr> <th align="left" scope="row">EMD Designation</th> <td>SD90/43MAC</td> </tr>
<tr> <th align="left" scope="row">Prime Mover</th> <td>EMD V16 710G3B</td> </tr>
<tr> <th align="left" scope="row">Power Output</th> <td>4300 hp (3210 kW)</td> </tr>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some individual photos of the five SD9043AC locomotives. The Locomotive numbers are 8306 in the lead, 8268, 8260, 8289, 8277. Notice that 8306 is the only one with the trapezoid window shade and the other four have rectangular shades. Also, 8260 was the only locomotive not facing forward.</div><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Here is a shot of all five locomotives hooked up to the potash train.</div><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">It is very exciting to see locomotives from other railroads that you would not otherwise see without having to travel, most times, a fair distance from home.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-06-20_yellow_near_sparwood.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div>Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-37629229099603468132010-09-06T16:40:00.002-06:002010-09-06T20:07:28.847-06:00Open Season on People - Hawk Attack<div style="text-align: justify;">I was out railfaning this morning on the MacLeod Sub and while I was photographing some autoracks and taking down reporting marks I heard this hawk screaching up in the sky. He would glide towards me at about 50 feet from the ground and turn around. I never thought anything about it cause he was also circling ovehead. I thought maybe there was some critter in the tall grass that he was trying to catch. I went along with my business but was keeping an eye on him.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">As I was getting closer to this clump of trees further ahead, it was about 6 auto racks ahead of me, he was getting more agitated and more screechy. I figured that I was probably getting close to a nest or something. He was circling and sort of doing some swooping now. This was starting to get pretty serious. I got to about 2 rail cars away from the clump of trees, and noticed that that he was coming towards me at about 20 feet off the ground, I thought to myself, "Shitballs Batman! This guy is very pissed!" and he dove at me in the blink of an eye. I ducked and put my note book over my head. He came so close that I heard the wind rush by from his swoop. Guess what I did? I took my last picture, wrote down the reporting marks, and got the hell out of Dodge!</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">He must of figured that I was leaving cause he immediately ceased his attacks and flew into the clump of trees with a couple final screeches and was quiet. I'll have to go back later this fall when nesting season is done. I still have 11 auto racks to photograph.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Let this be a lesson to all you railfans out there or to anyone for that matter, if you hear a noisy hawk, observe what he does. If he seems to be agitated by your presence, don't piss him off, get the hell out of there and come back another day.</div><br />
Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-80834623391382671952010-09-05T18:15:00.000-06:002010-09-05T18:15:20.162-06:00Macleod Sub Auto Rack Storage - Part 1<div style="text-align: justify;">If you wish to follow along in Google Earth, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-09-04_macleod_sub_auto_racks-part1.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">September 4th, 2010</span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">CP has pretty well abandoned most all of the MacLeod Sub south of the junction with the Aldersyde Sub near Aldersyde except for about 16 or 17 kilometers of track to service a couple industries and to use as storage for some auto racks south of High River.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Apparently the auto racks were being stored near Cayley, I assume due to the economic crisis a couple years ago. This is according to some info from a friend and to an article last year in the local newspaper The High River Times. The way I read it, they were moved further north on or around July 30th of last year I believe. I’m guessing it was probably because CP wanted to remove a section of rails from Cayley heading north which they did to about up to Township Road 182 (594th Ave).</div><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Back in May I took a drive out in the Southwest area of High River looking for something to photograph and that is when I first saw the auto racks. Since I had yet to investigate anything train related south of town I decided to do so. I never took any pictures of the auto racks that day. At that time the rails south of Township Road 182 (594th Ave) had been removed but the ties remained. In the distance peeking over the crest of a hill I saw recognizable shape, got distracted and went to photograph it instead.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Thursday after work, I drove out to see if the auto racks I spotted back in May were still in storage on the remnants of the MacLeod Sub south of town. I was in luck! They were still there.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday morning I had plans to first go photograph something I’ve been wanting to photograph for some time in the morning sun East of High River, but unfortunately the morning sun was not cooperating. Instead I drove south out of High River on Range Road 291 (88th Street East), heading towards the stored auto racks.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">There are two blocks of auto racks there, the first block consists of 18 cars and the second further south has 39 cars. Yesterday I only took notes and photos of the first block located South of Township Road 184 (562nd Ave) and West of Range Road 291 (88th Street East). Below are two photos of the first 18 cars stored on the MacLeod Subdivision south of High River.</div><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Below are my notes in list format of the railroad name, reporting marks and type for the first 18 auto racks. The order of the list depicts the order of the auto racks as they are on the track starting with the first auto rack immediately south of Township Road 184 with NS TTGX 975698 and ending with UP TTGX 974468.</div><br />
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<tr border="1"><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="100">RAILROAD</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="175">REPORTING MARK</th><th bgcolor="#333333" scope="col" width="90">TYPE</th></tr>
<tr><td>NS</td><td>TTGX 975698</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 981886</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>ETTX 908451</td><td>Tri-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>BNSF</td><td>ETTX 801284</td><td>Tri-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>ETTX 201504</td><td>Tri-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>SOO</td><td>SOO 515802</td><td>Tri-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CONRAIL</td><td>ETTX 908796</td><td>Tri-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CSX</td><td>ETTX 802335</td><td>Tri-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>SP 516572</td><td>Tri-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>SP</td><td>SSW 80650</td><td>Tri-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 930194</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CSX</td><td>TTGX 603491</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 982516</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 979691</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>CPR</td><td>TTGX 988453</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>BN</td><td>TTGX 940983</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 973463</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
<tr><td>UP</td><td>TTGX 974468</td><td>Bi-Level</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The following photos of the auto racks are ordered similar to the list above in a left to right, up and down direction.</div><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
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<tr><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQRqDw-tbI/AAAAAAAABFA/7RPwleeTdlY/s1600/DSC_0035.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQRqDw-tbI/AAAAAAAABFA/7RPwleeTdlY/s320/DSC_0035.jpg" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSLWzmBcI/AAAAAAAABFI/AYl-pb1aQTE/s1600/DSC_0036.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSLWzmBcI/AAAAAAAABFI/AYl-pb1aQTE/s320/DSC_0036.jpg" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSOTIk8kI/AAAAAAAABFQ/eXEiS6wHxfU/s1600/DSC_0041.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSOTIk8kI/AAAAAAAABFQ/eXEiS6wHxfU/s320/DSC_0041.jpg" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSkKLb-bI/AAAAAAAABFY/9DfAImodcOU/s1600/DSC_0042.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSkKLb-bI/AAAAAAAABFY/9DfAImodcOU/s320/DSC_0042.jpg" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSmWPZn1I/AAAAAAAABFg/jsXl-StevEo/s1600/DSC_0043.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSmWPZn1I/AAAAAAAABFg/jsXl-StevEo/s320/DSC_0043.jpg" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSpR6r_ZI/AAAAAAAABFo/WwltGlJ3JMg/s1600/DSC_0045.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSpR6r_ZI/AAAAAAAABFo/WwltGlJ3JMg/s320/DSC_0045.jpg" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSr6TpNnI/AAAAAAAABFw/7CF3fYMoNUc/s1600/DSC_0050.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSr6TpNnI/AAAAAAAABFw/7CF3fYMoNUc/s320/DSC_0050.jpg" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSubT-w_I/AAAAAAAABF4/4bN_UuOkojY/s1600/DSC_0051.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSubT-w_I/AAAAAAAABF4/4bN_UuOkojY/s320/DSC_0051.jpg" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSw6eGfCI/AAAAAAAABGA/AwYiN_NQPqI/s1600/DSC_0052.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSw6eGfCI/AAAAAAAABGA/AwYiN_NQPqI/s320/DSC_0052.jpg" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSzHAsNkI/AAAAAAAABGI/rokQLSGJ69A/s1600/DSC_0053.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQSzHAsNkI/AAAAAAAABGI/rokQLSGJ69A/s320/DSC_0053.jpg" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQS3PDCAfI/AAAAAAAABGQ/PC4E2Dk5Jr0/s1600/DSC_0054.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQS3PDCAfI/AAAAAAAABGQ/PC4E2Dk5Jr0/s320/DSC_0054.jpg" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQS5R7jAeI/AAAAAAAABGY/DizRbNK03Uo/s1600/DSC_0055.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQS5R7jAeI/AAAAAAAABGY/DizRbNK03Uo/s320/DSC_0055.jpg" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQS7_6yUqI/AAAAAAAABGg/KPjXy0iHRUQ/s1600/DSC_0056.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQS7_6yUqI/AAAAAAAABGg/KPjXy0iHRUQ/s320/DSC_0056.jpg" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQS-Iv5OgI/AAAAAAAABGo/sxRjj7EllY8/s1600/DSC_0057.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQS-Iv5OgI/AAAAAAAABGo/sxRjj7EllY8/s320/DSC_0057.jpg" width="170" /></a></td><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQTCLaQS_I/AAAAAAAABGw/IIs-vvjkVak/s1600/DSC_0058.jpg"><img height="113" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/TIQTCLaQS_I/AAAAAAAABGw/IIs-vvjkVak/s320/DSC_0058.jpg" width="170" /></a></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">After I finished with the first 18 auto racks I decided to do the other 39 another day and drove a bit further south past Township Road 182. I noticed that since my last wanderings back in May of this year, sometime between then and now, all the rail ties have been removed south of Township Road 182 (594th Ave). Prior to May, only the rails had been removed.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2010-09-04_macleod_sub_auto_racks-part1.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div><br />
Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-30064825214269623932010-01-02T21:12:00.001-07:002010-01-02T21:12:00.277-07:00Happy New Year!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Month 00th, 2009</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Happy New Years to all! I hope that everyone had enjoyable and safe celebrations.</div><br />Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-43613221736553900772009-12-28T23:30:00.000-07:002009-12-28T23:30:00.611-07:00Lengthy Absence From The Blog<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">December 28th, 2009</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">2009 has not been a good year for me in the way of railfaning and blogging. I had 29 posts in 2008 and only 6 in 2009 including the “Happy New Years” and this one. I’m not going to get into details about my personal life on here, but I will say that I was a little down in the dumps for a while, reduced my extra driving a bit to save some money, and also bought and moved into a condo in High River about a month ago.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Although I did not get around to railfaning very much this year, I did get out to do some photography closer to home on several occasions. I do feel like I’ve let those who have been reading this blog down this year with the lack of posts. To you the readers I apologize. I do have about a dozen or so posts that I need to finish up in the back log including my expedition of the Mayland Height Spur. In 2010 I do hope to get back on track (pun absolutely intended) and get things going again. Hopefully by then I’ll have been settled in my new place and have everything sorted.</div><br />Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-28528800275405312612009-10-05T22:00:00.004-06:002010-05-06T21:17:33.698-06:00Hang Out At Alyth<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">October 2nd, 2009</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">On Friday I did something that I haven’t done in several months. Railfanning! Man did it feel good to do it too. I wasn’t flying around the county side chasing down some train, I was just casually hanging out at Alyth yard checking what was going on.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I got there around noon, parked my car, grabbed my camera and walked along a grassy area on the backside of a warehouse parallel to the tracks. I got near the end and there was a guy sitting in a CP pickup truck, I think he was a yard foreman. When I came near he asked me if I was out take train pictures and I said yes. He went on to explain that he was waiting for container train to come in so he could take readings on the fuel tanks to determine how much fuel the train had consumed from its previous stop in Fields.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">He explained that CP had been experimenting with longer trains lately. I know not the reason why except to move more freight. Earlier this summer, they experimented with 10,000 foot long grain trains. Now they are experimenting with 10,000 foot and longer container trains.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The day before, Thursday October 1st, train 110 came through and was a 12,000 foot container train on it’s way to St Paul, Minnesota via Winnipeg from Vancouver. It had five locomotives total, two at the front, one about a third in, the other about a third from the end, and one pushing at the rear. On Friday the 2nd, I got to see train 110 roll by, a 10,500 foot container train, which was the one that the yard foreman was waiting for, with four locomotives total. There were two at the front, one about half way and the fourth pushing in the rear. This train had the same destination as the train 110 from the previous day.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The locomotive roster was 8702 in the lead, an es44ac, followed closely by 9824, an ac4400, then lagging further back were 9750 midway and 8514 pushing, both being ac4400’s. In the first photo, the building you see in the distance to the left is 12th Street Tower. I wish I would of thought of getting a car count on this train. I’ll have to keep my open for the next 10,000 foot 110.</div><br /><!-- begin layout 05c --><table summary="" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqt_kB1DWI/AAAAAAAAA_c/VTfMG_gcwwo/s1600-h/hoaa_002.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqt_kB1DWI/AAAAAAAAA_c/VTfMG_gcwwo/s200/hoaa_002.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389311211616931170" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqt_5vubbI/AAAAAAAAA_k/c1c_TEo5Uw4/s1600-h/hoaa_003.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqt_5vubbI/AAAAAAAAA_k/c1c_TEo5Uw4/s200/hoaa_003.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389311217446579634" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsquAuzSt7I/AAAAAAAAA_0/FGOd8IMEYQg/s1600-h/hoaa_006.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsquAuzSt7I/AAAAAAAAA_0/FGOd8IMEYQg/s200/hoaa_006.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389311231688619954" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsquAYjP9CI/AAAAAAAAA_s/WaNyjEZHaVs/s1600-h/hoaa_005.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsquAYjP9CI/AAAAAAAAA_s/WaNyjEZHaVs/s200/hoaa_005.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389311225715749922" width="95" height="61" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 05c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Shortly after that, the hump made its appearance at about 12:30. At the lead end was 6603 and 5795, both SD40-2’s, then there was 75 cars in the string and 6612 at the end another SD40-2.</div><br /><!-- begin layout 05c --><table summary="" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqwHjTvt3I/AAAAAAAABAU/8zf79Mmrfss/s1600-h/hoaa_007.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqwHjTvt3I/AAAAAAAABAU/8zf79Mmrfss/s200/hoaa_007.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389313547885852530" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqwHdpC95I/AAAAAAAABAM/S5GmmJiYj-I/s1600-h/hoaa_008.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqwHdpC95I/AAAAAAAABAM/S5GmmJiYj-I/s200/hoaa_008.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389313546364581778" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqwGZH4zmI/AAAAAAAAA_8/-Ed5Vqh81pU/s1600-h/hoaa_010.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqwGZH4zmI/AAAAAAAAA_8/-Ed5Vqh81pU/s200/hoaa_010.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389313527971892834" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqwGzyDhuI/AAAAAAAABAE/YpbaxA6xqX0/s1600-h/hoaa_009.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqwGzyDhuI/AAAAAAAABAE/YpbaxA6xqX0/s200/hoaa_009.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389313535128078050" width="95" height="61" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 05c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When it stopped half way on its return in and didn’t move for a while, I decided to get and oil change and tire rotation done on my car.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When I returned shortly before 16:00, the hump was already pulled out. I didn’t get a car count but it was well over 70 cars judging by were the two lead locos were and the fact that I couldn’t see the other locomotive at the end.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I walked down to the end of the grassy area again, and on my way back I saw some headlights coming down. It was a loco trio with a sandwiched SOO unit. Locomotive 3124 was the first, then SOO 4420 and then 3115 at the end. All three were GP38-2’s. They went several times doing some switching. From what I could tell it seemed like they were making a train or two.</div><br /><!-- begin layout 04b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqzUFlkLqI/AAAAAAAABA8/5ejOC6OB8gI/s1600-h/hoaa_011.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqzUFlkLqI/AAAAAAAABA8/5ejOC6OB8gI/s200/hoaa_011.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389317061780713122" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqzT1RKEcI/AAAAAAAABA0/INiHhuLjNM8/s1600-h/hoaa_012.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqzT1RKEcI/AAAAAAAABA0/INiHhuLjNM8/s200/hoaa_012.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389317057400148418" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqzTRY3GmI/AAAAAAAABAs/k3rcGYjL1wo/s1600-h/hoaa_013.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqzTRY3GmI/AAAAAAAABAs/k3rcGYjL1wo/s200/hoaa_013.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389317047768783458" width="170" height="113" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 04b --><!-- begin layout 04b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqzSwUD2OI/AAAAAAAABAk/XLmZnTiItT0/s1600-h/hoaa_014.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqzSwUD2OI/AAAAAAAABAk/XLmZnTiItT0/s200/hoaa_014.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389317038890277090" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqzSgOPvbI/AAAAAAAABAc/wml-PVbxLl0/s1600-h/hoaa_015.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SsqzSgOPvbI/AAAAAAAABAc/wml-PVbxLl0/s200/hoaa_015.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389317034570923442" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqz1RigMMI/AAAAAAAABBc/Y6nJx1Z7eY4/s1600-h/hoaa_016.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqz1RigMMI/AAAAAAAABBc/Y6nJx1Z7eY4/s200/hoaa_016.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389317631924777154" width="170" height="113" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 04b --><!-- begin layout 04b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqz02k_F_I/AAAAAAAABBU/pwwG9ZwO6To/s1600-h/hoaa_017.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqz02k_F_I/AAAAAAAABBU/pwwG9ZwO6To/s200/hoaa_017.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389317624687433714" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqz0j-AFSI/AAAAAAAABBM/AMoVdK73yDo/s1600-h/hoaa_018.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqz0j-AFSI/AAAAAAAABBM/AMoVdK73yDo/s200/hoaa_018.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389317619692082466" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqz0NrL4ZI/AAAAAAAABBE/ZL40D-G3BNM/s1600-h/hoaa_018b.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssqz0NrL4ZI/AAAAAAAABBE/ZL40D-G3BNM/s200/hoaa_018b.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389317613707583890" width="170" height="113" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 04b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There was a crunched up Government of Canada grain car in the hump.</div><br /><!-- begin layout 01b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq0TInDlEI/AAAAAAAABBs/cDsXWrusd4Y/s1600-h/hoaa_019.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq0TInDlEI/AAAAAAAABBs/cDsXWrusd4Y/s200/hoaa_019.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389318144924030018" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq0SihOueI/AAAAAAAABBk/-OGi2spFNAo/s1600-h/hoaa_020.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq0SihOueI/AAAAAAAABBk/-OGi2spFNAo/s200/hoaa_020.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389318134699047394" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As the hump made another stop as it was pulling in, 8217 pulled up from around the wye. It stopped and waited for the switch to be thrown so it could make its way up and around the hump to end up on the eastern side of the yard and head towards the diesel shop.</div><br /><!-- begin layout 01b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq1uwks0lI/AAAAAAAABB8/JowLP3g8MAo/s1600-h/hoaa_021.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq1uwks0lI/AAAAAAAABB8/JowLP3g8MAo/s200/hoaa_021.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389319719019663954" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq1uiDmKzI/AAAAAAAABB0/rL7ZVatCQhA/s1600-h/hoaa_022.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq1uiDmKzI/AAAAAAAABB0/rL7ZVatCQhA/s200/hoaa_022.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389319715122719538" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">At 16:10 the hump that was already out was finally on its way in. Pushing the cars into the hump were 6611 and 6065, both are SD40-2’s.</div><br /><!-- begin layout 03a --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq22jLS3mI/AAAAAAAABCk/c5GFB1s2JKs/s1600-h/hoaa_023.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq22jLS3mI/AAAAAAAABCk/c5GFB1s2JKs/s200/hoaa_023.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389320952374025826" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq22cDvN6I/AAAAAAAABCc/dLmqaKiDDKA/s1600-h/hoaa_024.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq22cDvN6I/AAAAAAAABCc/dLmqaKiDDKA/s200/hoaa_024.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389320950463281058" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq212NHuBI/AAAAAAAABCU/AVWqZcAilP8/s1600-h/hoaa_025.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq212NHuBI/AAAAAAAABCU/AVWqZcAilP8/s200/hoaa_025.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389320940302088210" width="95" height="61" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq21tuzIUI/AAAAAAAABCM/_cM-E9e8tR0/s1600-h/hoaa_026.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq21tuzIUI/AAAAAAAABCM/_cM-E9e8tR0/s200/hoaa_026.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389320938027426114" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq21Cab6qI/AAAAAAAABCE/nLemgzxmIo4/s1600-h/hoaa_027.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq21Cab6qI/AAAAAAAABCE/nLemgzxmIo4/s200/hoaa_027.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389320926399294114" width="95" height="61" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 03a --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">At 16:20, a local switcher was coming in from the north line with 7 tankers. The locomotives were two GP-9’s numbered 8232 and 1568. The north line comes in on the far side of the hump track. Most of the switches in the yard are controlled from the tower, so they waited a minute and were on their way to the yard that is near the downtown core to which the name eludes me at the moment.</div><br /><!-- begin layout 04b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq88xaHiiI/AAAAAAAABDE/FxTzV7toCek/s1600-h/hoaa_028.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq88xaHiiI/AAAAAAAABDE/FxTzV7toCek/s200/hoaa_028.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389327656343276066" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq88VMuGHI/AAAAAAAABC8/jN86uLNYHYo/s1600-h/hoaa_029.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq88VMuGHI/AAAAAAAABC8/jN86uLNYHYo/s200/hoaa_029.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389327648770889842" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq876a5JyI/AAAAAAAABC0/XMJpeiwKTPo/s1600-h/hoaa_030.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq876a5JyI/AAAAAAAABC0/XMJpeiwKTPo/s200/hoaa_030.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389327641582577442" width="170" height="113" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 04b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">About ten minutes later, a couple locos came out from the classification yard. They rolled back and switched around the hump to end up in one of the diesel shop tracks to be prepped for the next shift. The two locomotives were a GP38-2 numbered 3066, and 3013 being a GP38AC.</div><br /><!-- begin layout 05c --><table summary="" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq97GGJNQI/AAAAAAAABDk/NZ-AA26KMR4/s1600-h/hoaa_031.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq97GGJNQI/AAAAAAAABDk/NZ-AA26KMR4/s200/hoaa_031.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389328727048533250" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq96-Gr9QI/AAAAAAAABDc/jlIWJKX-97g/s1600-h/hoaa_032.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq96-Gr9QI/AAAAAAAABDc/jlIWJKX-97g/s200/hoaa_032.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389328724903326978" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq96IG2bqI/AAAAAAAABDM/560SRU0q9bI/s1600-h/hoaa_034.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq96IG2bqI/AAAAAAAABDM/560SRU0q9bI/s200/hoaa_034.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389328710408498850" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq96Qg-i_I/AAAAAAAABDU/Kiam9MYxKSY/s1600-h/hoaa_033.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq96Qg-i_I/AAAAAAAABDU/Kiam9MYxKSY/s200/hoaa_033.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389328712665566194" width="95" height="61" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 05c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There was no action for about twenty minutes, then another hump being pulled out by a familiar looking 6603 and 5795 came rolling by. I can only assume that 6612 was probably on the other end. I could only count 71 cars visible to me. This trio pulled out a hump in my presence earlier that afternoon.</div><br /><!-- begin layout 04b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq-x4t0UvI/AAAAAAAABD8/HmrhCYqbIIk/s1600-h/hoaa_035.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq-x4t0UvI/AAAAAAAABD8/HmrhCYqbIIk/s200/hoaa_035.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389329668349645554" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq-xrOrFSI/AAAAAAAABD0/2RPHLiFnFdQ/s1600-h/hoaa_036.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq-xrOrFSI/AAAAAAAABD0/2RPHLiFnFdQ/s200/hoaa_036.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389329664729355554" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq-xba6nEI/AAAAAAAABDs/QpcetQ7Sqxo/s1600-h/hoaa_037.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/Ssq-xba6nEI/AAAAAAAABDs/QpcetQ7Sqxo/s200/hoaa_037.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389329660485737538" width="170" height="113" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 04b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When they didn’t move for a good length of time, I decided to call it quits and said my good byes to a fellow railfanner and his wife who showed up about an hour prior. I then finished my day with a visit to my watering hole for some friendly chit-chat, a game of stick, a hot bite to eat, and a cold one down the gullet.</div><br />Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-4807536449453218432009-02-02T22:37:00.003-07:002009-02-02T22:52:11.607-07:00Yard Shots, NBEC 587 And VIA Ocean 15<div style="text-align: justify;">I was going to go into Calgary on Saturday and photograph the switch derail and industries along the Mayland Heights spur that runs across the street from my place of work, but as I was checking my gear and getting ready, I noticed that one of my batteries was at 0% and the other was at 4%. It takes about two and a half hours to charge each battery. So I'm postponing my expedition until next Saturday. As a substitute, I bring you another installment from my holidays in New Brunswick this past summer. I hope you enjoy.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">August 20th, 2008</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">It was Wednesday afternoon at around 15:30 and overcast. I wasn't really trying to catch a train that day, I was just wandering around taking pictures of the Bathurst Yard area which is on the Newcastle Subdivision. So I started off at the Golf Street crossing and the first couple I took were of the line heading towards Nepisiguit Junction.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The left track is the main line and the two right tracks are mostly used as storage sidings. Eventhough the middle track does continue on up to the other end of the yard, there is a switch on the station side of Golf Street to bypass this portion of the track back onto the main line. The crossing shown in the first photo is at Squire Green Drive. From what I have observed, the portion of the middle track west of Golf Street is mostly used for storage and temporary staging. The portion east of Golf Street is used to make up trains departing Bathurst heading east, as well as dropping off trains or blocks of cars that may be destined to go to Brunswick Mines, Belledune, Beresford or Chaleur Sawmills.</div><!-- begin layout 01b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-JFcozgI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/-wY1j5uT8Ko/s1600-h/DSC_0001.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-JFcozgI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/-wY1j5uT8Ko/s200/DSC_0001.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298412549915069954" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-JAJ9_jI/AAAAAAAAA8I/I6ERDdbLwSo/s1600-h/DSC_0002.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-JAJ9_jI/AAAAAAAAA8I/I6ERDdbLwSo/s200/DSC_0002.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298412548494589490" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">My next two shots are directed into the main yard area. From my observations, the switch in the foreground is used mostly as the entrance point into the main yard sidings and also divides the middle track in two. The switch is located just east of Golf Street. The siding in the first photo going off to the left, use to be the shop track back in the CN days. I have no idea if that shop building is still there today. The track also leads to a couple other sidings that seem to be used for storage as well. There use to be a scale on the siding between the switch and NBEC 1851, but that is no longer there apparently. In the second photo you can see two other sidings that are also used for storage.</div><!-- begin layout 01b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-I0MoyaI/AAAAAAAAA8A/kv-zCSVi-Vo/s1600-h/DSC_0003.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-I0MoyaI/AAAAAAAAA8A/kv-zCSVi-Vo/s200/DSC_0003.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298412545284557218" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-IxvfKrI/AAAAAAAAA74/R72kMqhtJqw/s1600-h/DSC_0004.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-IxvfKrI/AAAAAAAAA74/R72kMqhtJqw/s200/DSC_0004.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298412544625420978" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The next photos are taken near the VIA station and show the main area of the yard. You can see in the background of the first photo, some cars on the back sidings. You can clearly see in the third photo that the main yard is four sidings deep plus the main line. The AOK hoppers are bound for Brunswick mines full of cement to back fill the stopes with a mixture of taillings. The covered gondolas are also bound for the mines and will be filled with extracted ore and sent to the smelter for final processing.</div><!-- begin layout 04b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-7i4hZlI/AAAAAAAAA8o/DEopRlrZ8io/s1600-h/DSC_0005.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-7i4hZlI/AAAAAAAAA8o/DEopRlrZ8io/s200/DSC_0005.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298413416810112594" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-7nuQfyI/AAAAAAAAA8g/A1TVY9U7yOA/s1600-h/DSC_0006.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-7nuQfyI/AAAAAAAAA8g/A1TVY9U7yOA/s200/DSC_0006.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298413418109239074" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-7Xy6fvI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/VQOyGq7SZmA/s1600-h/DSC_0007.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe-7Xy6fvI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/VQOyGq7SZmA/s200/DSC_0007.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298413413833801458" width="170" height="113" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 04b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">From this point on I'd like to mention that the remainder of my photos are out of chronological order when shot and may appear that I've jumped back and forth from one spot to another.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">My next three shots are just east of the VIA station. The first photo shows the retaining wall where I was standing for my next few pictures. The second photo is looking west towards Golf Street. There is a NBEC office in the VIA station and it is beyond the wall where the big white Bathurst sign is. The third photo is a close up of the second. This is just speculation, but it seems that at some point in the past that there may have been a siding beside the retaining wall which was possibly used to off load some local freight.</div><!-- begin layout 04b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe_9mUX9uI/AAAAAAAAA9A/JQK3bSi3DKw/s1600-h/DSC_0008.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe_9mUX9uI/AAAAAAAAA9A/JQK3bSi3DKw/s200/DSC_0008.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298414551603607266" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe_9qJj2EI/AAAAAAAAA84/iHTs9bIzccQ/s1600-h/DSC_0009.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe_9qJj2EI/AAAAAAAAA84/iHTs9bIzccQ/s200/DSC_0009.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298414552631990338" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe_9fWmu8I/AAAAAAAAA8w/wbF1UPYzSJY/s1600-h/DSC_0010.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYe_9fWmu8I/AAAAAAAAA8w/wbF1UPYzSJY/s200/DSC_0010.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298414549733915586" width="170" height="113" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 04b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For these next three shots I'm still on the top area of the retaining wall. In the first photo it shows the main yard extending up to the bridge over College Street where it narrows down to two tracks. You can also see a couple of sidings which only the one on the right is still in use and is used to store locomotives. The second photo shows a close up of the two of three remaining sidings. The third photo shows the now dismantled third siding. I remember this siding being used in the CN days to fill gondolas with scrap metal which was loaded from the platform you see in the foreground.</div><!-- begin layout 04b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfAiZxCpFI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/-qSNuWjdGow/s1600-h/DSC_0011.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfAiZxCpFI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/-qSNuWjdGow/s200/DSC_0011.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298415183889343570" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfAifL_J-I/AAAAAAAAA9Q/1AGcs3mEWCM/s1600-h/DSC_0012.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfAifL_J-I/AAAAAAAAA9Q/1AGcs3mEWCM/s200/DSC_0012.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298415185344538594" width="170" height="113" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfAiPeaLtI/AAAAAAAAA9I/L5a5MZ0BJNk/s1600-h/DSC_0013.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfAiPeaLtI/AAAAAAAAA9I/L5a5MZ0BJNk/s200/DSC_0013.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298415181126840018" width="170" height="113" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 04b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For this next series, I had walked further down towards the College Street bridge to photograph the switches leading to these sidings. The first photo shows where the bridge is and the switch on top of it. In the second photo, you can see that the frog has been removed and replaced with solid rail, but the points leading to the nearest siding have been left behind. In the third photo you can now see the remnants of the third siding. The frog and points are still in place but the rail has been removed. The last two photos are of the sidings and the yard heading back toward the station.</div><!-- begin layout 07 --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfBO24HImI/AAAAAAAAA-A/Q4Jfu_mSdH0/s1600-h/DSC_0014.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfBO24HImI/AAAAAAAAA-A/Q4Jfu_mSdH0/s200/DSC_0014.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298415947617870434" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfBOZSTALI/AAAAAAAAA94/urJTbWPSCXg/s1600-h/DSC_0015.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfBOZSTALI/AAAAAAAAA94/urJTbWPSCXg/s200/DSC_0015.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298415939674636466" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfBOCiyXKI/AAAAAAAAA9w/D-ASM0Sya-I/s1600-h/DSC_0016.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfBOCiyXKI/AAAAAAAAA9w/D-ASM0Sya-I/s200/DSC_0016.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298415933569784994" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfBOMuJaUI/AAAAAAAAA9o/rLlOlo7HJ_Q/s1600-h/DSC_0017.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfBOMuJaUI/AAAAAAAAA9o/rLlOlo7HJ_Q/s200/DSC_0017.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298415936301787458" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfBNzY76yI/AAAAAAAAA9g/JLkm_mU-N88/s1600-h/DSC_0018.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfBNzY76yI/AAAAAAAAA9g/JLkm_mU-N88/s200/DSC_0018.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298415929501936418" width="95" height="61" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 07 --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">These next two photos are from one of my previous New Brunswick postings. and the third photo was taken 11 days after this outing. The photos were taken from the St. Anne Street bridge towards the College Street bridge. I'm using them here since they show the west end of Bathurst Yard. This part of the yard has three sidings. The one to the far right is used for storage/staging and the middle track is used for staging for outbound trains heading west. If you look closely in the second shot, you can see a switch at the far end. Shortly after that is the College Street bridge. The third shot is another angle of the sidings before the bridge. Without the view interrupted by freight cars, you can see the beginning of the third siding in the western part of the yard. You can also see part of the St. Anne Street bridge in the background.</div><!-- begin layout 04e --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SMwfkHEoQAI/AAAAAAAAAWI/vFLyfe0NK1c/s1600-h/DSC_0147.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SMwfkHEoQAI/AAAAAAAAAWI/vFLyfe0NK1c/s200/DSC_0147.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245602371214000130" width="95" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SMwfkfsv1NI/AAAAAAAAAWY/434xAkJpBv8/s1600-h/DSC_0153.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SMwfkfsv1NI/AAAAAAAAAWY/434xAkJpBv8/s200/DSC_0153.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245602377824720082" width="95" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfPIv7xHsI/AAAAAAAAA-I/Y6rzZDBZrjI/s1600-h/DSC_0019.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfPIv7xHsI/AAAAAAAAA-I/Y6rzZDBZrjI/s200/DSC_0019.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298431235837730498" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 04e --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">That afternoon at around 16:45, NBEC 587 returned from it's trip to the Irvco Spur. with a load of cars. Locomotives 1868 and 1813, both RS18's in case you did not know, were the power for this train. The car you see immediately behind 1813, is one of the ore hopper destined to head to brunswick mines for a load.</div><!-- begin layout 04a --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfPm0Cq27I/AAAAAAAAA-g/MOSwWnzvZjQ/s1600-h/DSC_0020.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfPm0Cq27I/AAAAAAAAA-g/MOSwWnzvZjQ/s200/DSC_0020.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298431752336497586" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfPmtNZQzI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/RE_vVCrjq2k/s1600-h/DSC_0021.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfPmtNZQzI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/RE_vVCrjq2k/s200/DSC_0021.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298431750502433586" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfPmlzughI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/6nhd6lHKzfc/s1600-h/DSC_0022.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfPmlzughI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/6nhd6lHKzfc/s200/DSC_0022.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298431748515725842" width="95" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 04a --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After that I went home for supper, but I did end up going to Nipisiguit Junction to catch the the VIA Ocean 15. Unfortunately the light was diming due to the overcast sky and my pictures ended up blurry.</div><!-- begin layout 09a --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfQlCwVa-I/AAAAAAAAA_A/d-In1KTCUCo/s1600-h/DSC_0023.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfQlCwVa-I/AAAAAAAAA_A/d-In1KTCUCo/s200/DSC_0023.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298432821438016482" width="123" height="82" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfQlJe74ZI/AAAAAAAAA-4/d_ONA2mVE-8/s1600-h/DSC_0024.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfQlJe74ZI/AAAAAAAAA-4/d_ONA2mVE-8/s200/DSC_0024.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298432823244087698" width="123" height="82" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfQkx-YWDI/AAAAAAAAA-w/MJyDNktsGH4/s1600-h/DSC_0025.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfQkx-YWDI/AAAAAAAAA-w/MJyDNktsGH4/s200/DSC_0025.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298432816933525554" width="123" height="82" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfQk0wfmlI/AAAAAAAAA-o/wseSd7XsOb4/s1600-h/DSC_0026.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SYfQk0wfmlI/AAAAAAAAA-o/wseSd7XsOb4/s200/DSC_0026.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298432817680587346" width="123" height="82" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 09a --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Well that's it for this one. Hopefully you enjoyed this one. I think I have one or two more posts of my New Brunswick holidays, so stay tuned.</div><br />Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7280765052181040000.post-47199672827074169622009-01-25T21:12:00.001-07:002011-05-13T23:31:50.836-06:00Super Saturday Surprise<div style="text-align: justify;">If you wish to follow along in Google Earth to see my stops and travels, here is the <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2008-05-03_cpr_2816_Indus.kmz">kmz</a> file for download.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">May 3rd, 2008</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I had wanted to get up bright and early to try and maybe catch a couple of trains in the early morning sun. Unfortunately, I only woke up at around 7:30. By the time I got my coffee and bagel at Tim Horton’s in Okotoks, it was 8:30. I still had not made up my mind as to where I wanted to go at this point. I was about to turn south to head towards Vulcan and suddenly changed my mind and head towards Shepard. CPR has an intermodal yard in Shepard, so I figured I would try to catch some eastbound trains.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I drove north on Highway 2, east on 22x and then north on Shepard Road. As I arrived in Shepard at about 9:20, an Eastbound was already on it’s way out. I decided not to chase this one down and head for the intermodal yard. I turned west on 114th Ave, parked my car at the corner of 68th and 112th Ave and walked the rest of the way up the dirt lane. I took a couple of minutes to take a picture of some ducks in a pond. Notice some of the Canadian Tire containers in the background. There was probably close to two hundred of them there at the depot.</div><!-- begin layout 01c --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0Ku1z00HI/AAAAAAAAA4o/E8RkaENSl6o/s1600-h/DSC_0044.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0Ku1z00HI/AAAAAAAAA4o/E8RkaENSl6o/s200/DSC_0044.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295400536692281458" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I took a few pictures looking down into the yard and also looking towards Shepard. There were 5 trains waiting to be unloaded and an auto carrier train in the distance.</div><!-- begin layout 01b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0LZ11terI/AAAAAAAAA44/V3Mi9wwXLio/s1600-h/DSC_0046.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0LZ11terI/AAAAAAAAA44/V3Mi9wwXLio/s200/DSC_0046.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295401275434564274" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0LZandgvI/AAAAAAAAA4w/thGraE48bEI/s1600-h/DSC_0051.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0LZandgvI/AAAAAAAAA4w/thGraE48bEI/s200/DSC_0051.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295401268127040242" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As I was taking my pictures, when one of the yard workers drove by on a quad and stopped. At that point I thought I was in trouble, cause I was a little further up on the access road to get a good view for my photographs. We exchanged greetings and then to my absolute surprise he asked me if I was looking for the “steam train”. I was unaware that 2816 was going to be out and about that day. He told me that 2816 was going to leave Alyth yard at approximately 13:00.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This was absolutely great news!</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since I had a few hours to spare, I decided to go roaming around the Shepard Industrial Park area for a bit. The track coming from Ogden Shops follows the irrigation canal and into Shepard Yard. I ended up at a grade crossing on Shepard Road just off of Barlow Trail. I took some pictures of the double tracks heading to Shepard Yard and also heading towards Ogden Shops and Alyth Yard. I was also snapping some pictures of a switch on a spur leading past a chain link fence gate to an unknown industry. I was trying to be creative with the shots of the switch, you know, practicing a bit.</div><!-- begin layout 06b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0PEqOOilI/AAAAAAAAA5g/cX7cKL1H1Gk/s1600-h/DSC_0056.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0PEqOOilI/AAAAAAAAA5g/cX7cKL1H1Gk/s200/DSC_0056.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295405309585427026" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0PEvydxSI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/x85-UCMMWX8/s1600-h/DSC_0059.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0PEvydxSI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/x85-UCMMWX8/s200/DSC_0059.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295405311079597346" width="95" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0PEXaLBvI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/DafzewFBeYM/s1600-h/DSC_0062.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0PEXaLBvI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/DafzewFBeYM/s200/DSC_0062.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295405304535254770" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0PD-rIn-I/AAAAAAAAA5I/SA3KN6CnkGc/s1600-h/DSC_0073.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0PD-rIn-I/AAAAAAAAA5I/SA3KN6CnkGc/s200/DSC_0073.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295405297895514082" width="95" height="142" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0PD4vpdJI/AAAAAAAAA5A/tLTmd7BDBCw/s1600-h/DSC_0077.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0PD4vpdJI/AAAAAAAAA5A/tLTmd7BDBCw/s200/DSC_0077.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295405296303830162" width="95" height="61" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 06b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Has I was snapping my pictures, I heard the distinct sound of a train horn. I managed to catch a container train lead by 8893 followed by 9122 heading East at 10:25 with 8758 on the push. The pictures are a bit blurry.</div><!-- begin layout 01b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0ccMLMuQI/AAAAAAAAA5w/FuUsxMlmPCY/s1600-h/DSC_0087.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0ccMLMuQI/AAAAAAAAA5w/FuUsxMlmPCY/s200/DSC_0087.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295420007487682818" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0ccBz9xhI/AAAAAAAAA5o/rKDk4Ypm_KU/s1600-h/DSC_0090.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0ccBz9xhI/AAAAAAAAA5o/rKDk4Ypm_KU/s200/DSC_0090.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295420004705879570" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">CN was also at work on the other side of the irrigation canal. Unfortunately I was not able to get the engine numbers.</div><!-- begin layout 01c --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0c24fDA5I/AAAAAAAAA54/HAsIQW5mz9E/s1600-h/DSC_0071.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0c24fDA5I/AAAAAAAAA54/HAsIQW5mz9E/s200/DSC_0071.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295420466058691474" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I made my way to a spot along Alyth Yard just off of Blackfoot Trail. A freight train led by 8534 and 9525, rolled by at 10:50 heading southbound towards Lethbridge. A couple GP9’s came by at 11:20 heading downtown. At 11:35, a container train left heading west probably towards Vancouver. This was lead by 9615 and 9546. I didn’t get any pictures of these trains unfortunately as I was looking in my map books trying to figure out the best location to catch the steam train.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">At around 12:00, I figured that I should start heading out and get into position. On my way out of town, I made a quick stop at Ogden Shop for a few minutes to see if there was anything interesting around the yard. I managed to see some rather old coaches on a siding, and I also caught a glimpse of a couple of F units in the yard. Both locomotives were in the tuscan & grey paint theme. The first was CP 1400 a FP7A and the second CP 1900 a F9B.</div><!-- begin layout 01c --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0deHC6drI/AAAAAAAAA6A/IhxEIL7lBlo/s1600-h/DSC_0097.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0deHC6drI/AAAAAAAAA6A/IhxEIL7lBlo/s200/DSC_0097.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295421139982120626" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I knew there was an overpass on 22x over the tracks, and I knew that this was where I wanted to be. I arrived there at about quarter to one and shortly after my arrival as I started to pick the perfect spot on the hillside, a stack container train came rolling by. The power was 9117 in the front and 9107 close behind. Both locomotives are SD90MAC’s, and pretty grimy looking as well.</div><!-- begin layout 01c --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0duYGY7RI/AAAAAAAAA6I/2RwW6fWVcKo/s1600-h/DSC_0105.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0duYGY7RI/AAAAAAAAA6I/2RwW6fWVcKo/s200/DSC_0105.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295421419438009618" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then I waited, and waited, and I was getting hot, and also started getting thirsty.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally at 14:22, I could hear the whistle of 2816 in the distance near Shepard. Behind her tender was another FP7A locomotive CP 1401.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is the photograph I took of 2816 that day on <a href="http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=234370">RailPicture.Net</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The consist was:</div><ol><li>CP 2816 "Empress" 4-6-4 Hudson</li><li>First Tender, 12,000 gals Water, 4,600 gals Diesel</li><li>Second Tender 23,000 gals Water</li><li>CP 1401 FP9A Diesel Locomotive</li><li>CP 29114 , A box car used as a tool car (CP cars all solid maroon color)</li><li>CP 96 Power Car</li><li>2 CP Coach car of which I missed the identification marks</li><li>CP NSR9107 Baggage Express</li><li>2 CP Coach car of which I missed the identification marks</li><li>1 Business car of which I missed the identification marks</li></ol><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After they had gone by, I headed back to Alyth Yard to see if there was any action going on. There wasn’t very much happening except for an empty potash train coming in. The empties were led by locomotives CP 8886 and CP 8782 both being ES44AC’s. These trains are usually pretty long. If I can remember, next time I’ll have to take a car count.</div><!-- begin layout 01c --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0oW6t3XhI/AAAAAAAAA64/fBbLx-JWC7s/s1600-h/DSC_0174.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0oW6t3XhI/AAAAAAAAA64/fBbLx-JWC7s/s200/DSC_0174.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295433111041433106" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">One of CP’s tampers was on the same siding as the Sperry unit that usually hangs around there. There was also a ballast regulator behind the tamper but I didn't get its number. The number on the tamper was TP2760.</div><!-- begin layout 01c --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0fKnuFCMI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/XjmSy0OKbpc/s1600-h/DSC_0177.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0fKnuFCMI/AAAAAAAAA6Q/XjmSy0OKbpc/s200/DSC_0177.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295423004178974914" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Three GP38-2’s numbered CP 3033, CP 3023 and CP 3034 had returned from turning around on the wye and were in the process of switching onto the idling track.</div><!-- begin layout 05c --><table summary="" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0gwrvwTEI/AAAAAAAAA6w/cWCa7I1b0y8/s1600-h/DSC_0187.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0gwrvwTEI/AAAAAAAAA6w/cWCa7I1b0y8/s200/DSC_0187.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295424757606403138" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0gwjsyVAI/AAAAAAAAA6o/uWL7bykx2n0/s1600-h/DSC_0188.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0gwjsyVAI/AAAAAAAAA6o/uWL7bykx2n0/s200/DSC_0188.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295424755446469634" width="95" height="61" /></a></td><td rowspan="2"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0gvdbWaqI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/Tszq0bfNQM4/s1600-h/DSC_0190.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0gvdbWaqI/AAAAAAAAA6Y/Tszq0bfNQM4/s200/DSC_0190.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295424736582855330" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0gvknXYNI/AAAAAAAAA6g/jwOrJAxTOxA/s1600-h/DSC_0189.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0gvknXYNI/AAAAAAAAA6g/jwOrJAxTOxA/s200/DSC_0189.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295424738512298194" width="95" height="61" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 05c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Other than that, there was a slew of idle units hanging around. The closest to me were CP 9679 and CP 8503, both of which are AC4400CW’s which they later turned them around on the wye and moved them toward the diesel shop at Alyth.</div><!-- begin layout 01c --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0oo4N3WLI/AAAAAAAAA7A/t7_ZNtXxM2s/s1600-h/DSC_0173.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0oo4N3WLI/AAAAAAAAA7A/t7_ZNtXxM2s/s200/DSC_0173.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295433419607988402" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01c --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Three SD40-2’s numbered as CP 5910, CP 5981 and CP 5965 were sitting on the usual idling track, as were three GP38-2’s numbered CP 3062, CP 3093 and CP 3046.</div><!-- begin layout 09a --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0pp3rM82I/AAAAAAAAA7g/2Ue7ss2P3gs/s1600-h/DSC_0193.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0pp3rM82I/AAAAAAAAA7g/2Ue7ss2P3gs/s200/DSC_0193.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295434536154100578" width="123" height="82" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0pp6bJfDI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/dllWDli4er4/s1600-h/DSC_0194.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0pp6bJfDI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/dllWDli4er4/s200/DSC_0194.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295434536892070962" width="123" height="82" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0ppFTWJ5I/AAAAAAAAA7Q/-LzYiX7EubY/s1600-h/DSC_0195.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0ppFTWJ5I/AAAAAAAAA7Q/-LzYiX7EubY/s200/DSC_0195.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295434522632267666" width="123" height="82" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0ppFomaUI/AAAAAAAAA7I/NQ5HWjmpt1M/s1600-h/DSC_0196.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0ppFomaUI/AAAAAAAAA7I/NQ5HWjmpt1M/s200/DSC_0196.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295434522721413442" width="123" height="82" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 09a --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Shortly after the hump came out I left cause it was pretty long and slow. The power was CP 5495 an SD40m-2 and CP 6603 an SD40-2.</div><!-- begin layout 01b --><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0qQISNPoI/AAAAAAAAA7w/ji372qFW9CM/s1600-h/DSC_0200.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0qQISNPoI/AAAAAAAAA7w/ji372qFW9CM/s200/DSC_0200.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295435193447693954" width="208" height="142" /></a></td><td><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0qQOaCVKI/AAAAAAAAA7o/qdsM-Bn5680/s1600-h/DSC_0202.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6tnLNgY0RiQ/SX0qQOaCVKI/AAAAAAAAA7o/qdsM-Bn5680/s200/DSC_0202.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295435195091145890" width="208" height="142" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- end layout 01b --><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Although I never did catch as many container trains as I had initially wanted to, the day was a great success. I finally found my way to my oasis for a cold brown brew.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Goggle Earth <a href="http://www.dustonthetracks.ca/ge/blog/2008-05-03_cpr_2816_Indus.kmz">kmz</a> file.</div><br />Cheers,jddc.trainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011221055194946939noreply@blogger.com0