Saturday, July 10, 2010

Making the grade......subgrade that is!

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Well with traffic increasing through the Port of Prince Rupert, CN is upgrading two sidings (Amesbury and Tyee) between Rupert and Terrace f...
Friday, July 9, 2010

CN distributed power on coal train

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July 3rd started with a trip to Terrace for the day. Along the way I caught up to an empty coal train headed East around Kwinitsa (midway po...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Mile Post 58 "Skeena" on the Skeena Subdivision

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Well it's been awhile since my last post so I thought I'd share some photos I captured at mile post 58 on the Skeena subdivision on ...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Derailment May 12 at Carstairs AB

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Once again my buddy comes up with these photos of a CP Rail derailment at Carstairs Alberta. No one was injured.
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Sunny Sunday in Prince Rupert and trains in the yard

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Sunday May 2nd I managed to catch CN 2535 with BC Rail 4645 waiting for the afternoon rail crew to arrive and pull the container cars in the...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

8829 idling on the waterfront

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Sunday afternoon, 8829 was in the Rupert yard idling, waiting for a crew. I thought I'd do something different and decided to upload the...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

CN 2699 engine failure

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Canadian National locomotive number 2699 is a 212 t...
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Sunday, April 4, 2010

Wye Oh Wye - turning locomotives

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BC Rail 4610 is seen entering the North end of the wye in Rupert with 2525 as the trailing unit. 2525 becomes the lead unit once it exits th...
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Hand brake......what hand brake?

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Just had to post this video clip of a group of Norfolk Southern locomotive going past a level grade crossing in the dark. Can you spot the p...
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Why they mark cars with rotary couplers?

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The answer is so they avoid an accident like the following that happened at dumper 31 Westshore property at Roberts Bank. A snafu, first ...
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