It's a minute past five and my thirteenth hour on the road. I was looking out at the road rushing under my wheels and feeling every bit like Jackson Browne. With 900 kilometres on the odometer and... (more)
CN 527 has a varied lashup of CN 5741, NS 8374 & CN 4807 as it passes through Turcot West. At left is where CN's main line will shift to before the end of the year.
M337 was running about 12 hours late today. Here the train stops outside of Waterloo for a crew change as the snow falls. There has been alot of power coming to Iowa over the weekend for the busy ... (more)
An eastbound intermodal charges through Oakville.
A westbound intermodal heads through Giroux.
Holding at the exit of the CN Champaign yard for a signal. He'll have to wait first on Amtrak 390 & 391 before heading south.
Making up time running south through Tolono after a long wait in Champaign.
An eastbound intermodal crosses over the Assiniboine river in downtown Winnipeg.
Freight led by CN 5741 & IC 1036 flies through the south end of Mattoon.
Northbound at speed on the former DW&P in falling snow, which is adding to the 2 feet the Twin Ports area has received over the past 3 days.
L539 makes the first back up move of the day into Georgia Pacific Lumber Mill.
Heading eastbound
1410 : CN M31441 11 ; Manifest [Winnipeg (Symington), MB to Toronto (MacMillian), ON] 105 mixed CN 5741 (SD75I) **BCOL 4647 (C449W)**
CN 398 screams downgrade through Dundas with 2 blasts of the horn and alot of swirling snow during the storm!