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After losing my Scanner, CN 199 came through with a nice mixed consist. After that, I went back to the house before the ghosts came out! This could be CN 111 or 115. But he runs with the 2406, who I spotted on 346 days before, so this probably came from Chicago.
CN "Work 903" is the special guest at Riverview tonight. CN 2533 and 6019 headed up a collection of Herzog ballast gondolas to Watrous in failing light.
What we see here is CN 111, Hotest of the hot. But today, the train plays host to sevral bare table well cars. The second unit is an SD40U, which may not be around much longer.
This guy caught me by surprize. Half way to the siganl before I was even aware of its presence. CN 2634 and CN SD40U 6015 head up a Westbound "Rack-Manifest" at Riverview.
What appears to be an SD40-2W, GMD-1,and SD40U with a grain unit train. Apparently, I didn't have very good lighting, so this photo didn't turn out as good as I hoped.
As late as 2006 CN was still running SD40s on everything from manifests & grain trains, to coal and Intermodal Sadly they were unofficially limited to trailing only, a shame as in the East they led until the end. I managed to catch all the Winnipeg based units just before retirement: 5055...