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Portage la Prairie is one of the best places to railfan on the Prairies, as that's where the CN & CP mainlines meet, not to mention CP's & CN's Prarie North Lines. The town itself doesn't generate much traffic however, thus there's only one unit on duty - a GP38-2, ussually CP 3106...
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3106 3115 3079 5578 5731 makes up the lashup for todays p34. 5578 had SBU trouble and couldn't run as a lead unit so they brought up extra power :D so that means a a five unit lashup for me. Note they also have a Freshly painted beaver in it
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