Just after sunrise an eastbound freight powered by two SD-40's waits in Southwark Yard for the early morning passenger trains to clear before heading out onto the mainline.

A plow extra heads off the St. Hyacinthe Sub. mainline and onto the Sorel Sub. at Bruno Jct. The engine is one of CN's light-weight GP-9s as shown by the Flexi-coil trucks and small fuel tank.

The sun has just risen as the morning commuter train from St. Hyacinthe to Montreal meets an eastbound manifest. The vintage pair of MLW's consisting of RS-3 3900 and FPA-2 6750 were assigned to ... (more)

A CN MLW cab unit pulls the CHAMPLAIN from Quebec City. This Budd-built train is the former Reading Company CRUSADER which CN had purchased the previous year.