My living room is filled with trails-end popcorn, pumpkin spice lattes are available again, ahhh fall....now, if only I can sell this blasted popcorn so I have time to railfan. Sent from my SM-T377V using Tapatalk
Taken 08/28/18 at Devine Jct. in Columbia, SC, NS 192 arrives from Macon, GA. The train will soon enter Andrews Yard to be worked before again heading north to terminate at NS's Linwood, NC hump yard.
Flameless switcher moved to Gallipolis,Ohio, for their new railroad museum. Point Pleasant Farm museum gave them this engine a B&O box car and a B&O wagontop caboose, Curtis
2 days ago, some Quebec & Gatineau Railway stuff (indeed a GP40-2W and a standard GP40-2) at Shawinigan, QC. Sorry, the sun is on the wrong side but with a 3-train a day activity and profusion of no-trespassing areas, one doesn't take the shots he would want to... Dom
And finally, yesterday, a good piece of luck let me catch something I hadn't any idea about. As I was driving from Montreal to Magog, QC, to have a ride with a friend on his boat on the wonderful Memphrémagog Lake, I had to stop to refill my car's gas tank and to empty its driver's bladder... Good conjunction of events, as when I was queuing up for the outside toilet I heard a rumble becoming louder and louder... I finally lift my head and discovered a railroad trestle I first didn't even spot, and a freight train slowly rolling on... I rushed on my Map.me app on my cellphone and quickly spotted an area that should be ok for pictures. Too bad for my bladder, the time to drive there and climb down from my car, and here we went. That time I was lucky, sun's orientation was ok. On that event I discovered that now even shortlines can run modern equipment such as this couple of AC4400Ws.. The railroad is Central Maine & Quebec Ry, the heir of the sadly renowned Montreal, Maine & Atlantic RR, that folded down following the disaster of Lac Megantic a few years ago. It was the very first time in my life I saw big 6-axle units rolling on old jointed track. Oh, and finally, as I had taken a large schedule for this drive, I was still on time for my rendez-vous. A short but a good railfanning day. Dom
Beautiful shots, Dom! I call this Golden Hour over Gassman Coulee. An eastbound Q train rolls over the namesake trestle amid deepening autumn color while a westbound stack waits.
Used to see that a lot in my region. In fact, this summer BNSF is just getting rid of some miles on a main track in eastern Washington State.
I didn’t take much time to inspect the depot. Looks like it’s stone made indeed... About the location : in the town of Shawinigan, QC, about 20 miles north of Trois-Rivières. Dom
Quebec-Gatineau runs through my home town of Ste-Therese. There's a decent-sized yard (to handle the traffic from the former GM plant at Boisbriand, now a shopping centre...) where they take stuff handed off to them from CP's St-Luc yard, then make up the trains that go either west toward Hull/Gatineau or east to Quebec City. They have an interesting mix of power (mostly visible only when I don't have a camera... ), from SD40-3s to GP40-2Ws to some GP39FH-2s (former GP40s converted for commuter service) and some ex-GP35s rebuilt into GP38-2s. If they get any more eclectic, they'll have to get some Alcos... (a silly wish, not likely to come true... ).
The ex-NP line over Stampede Pass to Yakima is 90 percent CWR now. Sad, it was so nice to hear trains up at Kanasket with the "Clickety Clack, Clickety Clack" going by.
Fascinating! I have train orders from Shawinigan in my collection. Fun to see where they were copied, long ago.
Boxcab, I'm not sure whether they were issued in this very depot. There are over there several other railroad related buildings and I'm not sure which one was THE depot, even if the street where I pictured that train is called "Avenue de la Station" ("Depot Avenue" in american language). Dom
Very possible. Railroads in North America did not always issue (copy) at a passenger (depot) station. Sometimes it was a separate designated "train order office"; sometimes at a nearby interlocking tower or even a freight station. And sometimes they had multiple sites in any one settlement, regardless of population size.
I've heard of this line but first time I have seen pics of their locos. I like that paint scheme. Great catch and pics!
