Thursday Proto Photo,Apr 4/13

[Lenny53]

[Ntrainz1]

Bob.

[Bob Bufkin]

[magicman_841]

Here's a couple from last Saturday. What a gorgeous spring day we had!


AMTK 694 @ Southwark by Mathieu Tremblay, on Flickr


CN 120 @ Otterburn Park by Mathieu Tremblay, on Flickr


CN X310 @ Southwark by Mathieu Tremblay, on Flickr

[seusscaboose]

Is that an ex-NKP unit????

[Ntrainz1]

811    EMD GP9    25089    1/59    Ex-N&W 1481, N&W 2811, nee-NKP 811

[lock4244]

Late to the party. Bit of an interesting one, pair of CN yard switcher GP9RM's out on the road pulling a Belleville-Toronto freight. Not too fast up the hills and the leader caught fire close to Mac Yard!

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=430218

[C855B]

Late to the party. Bit of an interesting one, pair of CN yard switcher GP9RM's out on the road pulling a Belleville-Toronto freight. Not to fast up the hills and the leader caught fire close to Mac Yard!

Oops. Even EMDs can catch fire, I guess.

Doesn't a pair of GP9's pulling double-stacks seem a little incongruous? There's, oh, about 50 years of separation between the technologies. I know that UP once assigned the 3985 to a stack train for drawbar testing, but the anachronism was clearly intentional.

[aikorob]

Love that UP video---what would be the normal diesel lashup on that run?

[C855B]

Likely three toasters on the point plus a single DPU - 17K HP or so.

[lock4244]

Oops. Even EMDs can catch fire, I guess.

Doesn't a pair of GP9's pulling double-stacks seem a little incongruous? There's, oh, about 50 years of separation between the technologies. I know that UP once assigned the 3985 to a stack train for drawbar testing, but the anachronism was clearly intentional.

Those two are relatively new GP9's, being built in 1958 and 1959 

They did it again today, but in reverse. A 570 left Mac Yard (Toronto) for Belleville with a pair of GP9RM's, CN 7075 and 4110, the former being a yard switcher and the latter being a road switcher. Short train and they would seems to be the fastest power on CN. I barely managed to keep up with them as I chased as far east as Trenton, ON. A fine sight and sound!