This manifest led by #5509 slows to a stop near station sign CN Winnipeg as it holds for VIA's Canadian, train #1, for its 1145 departure from Winnipeg Union Station.
CN SD60Fs 5509 and 5562 claw their way towards Geikie with 165 cars (42 grain loads/24 sand loads/99 empty lumber centrebeams) for Prince George, BC... No easy task for these two, and it showed at... (more)
In the last light of day, with the dramatic shadows growing longer by the second, Q291-17 passes the GE interchange, with a pair of SD60F's (CN 5508 and 5526).
A really late L571 has just started their 100 mile trip towards Ft Dodge. The carman has just high balled the roll by and L571 has them wide open working on getting some track speed up leaving Wat... (more)