VIA #671
VIA 915
5 LRC coaches
I got a shot of him departing as VIA #70 was arriving.
08:57 to 08:59
VIA #70
VIA 6406 (Still in Spiderman 2 scheme)
1 baggage car and 5 coaches
08:59
CN 587 East departed the yard on the North Track to work 3 industries East of the yard.
CN 7039
7 cars
09:16
CN 3?? East
CN 6008 - CN 6028
97 cars
09:43
CN 148 by Hardy
CN 2583 - CN 5421 - CN 5673
104 cars
10:44
CN 385 (sorry no digital only slides)
CN 2596 - BNSF 6824 - CN 2691
130 cars
10:55
CN 394 arrived at Paris to lift 42 cars out of the South Service track.
BNSF 4749 - RLCX 8512 - CN 5544
The power cut off so they could run down to the communications hut to get a copy of the journal off the fax machine as they were lifting tank cars.
Unfortunatly neither fax machine was working. They requested to run light power to Brantford to get the paperwork from the fax machine there.
While waiting for the Dispatcher to confer with the Chief I took some more shots.
While he was waiting CN 587 arrived at Paris having run light power from Brantford. He heading into the North Service track to do some work in the North yard at Paris.
11:10
CN 587 West arrived at Paris
CN 7039
11:16
CN 394 departed for Brantford after getting the OK from the Dispatcher.
I then headed to the Paris train show. Probably missed some good stuff in the nice full sun.
After the show I caught 2 more trains before calling it a day.
16:39
CN 331
CN 2644 - CN 25?? - CN 5244
170 !!!!!! cars
Already at Brantford was CN 435 who was having a hard time pumping his train after making a lift of 37 cars.
17:06
CN 435 departed Brantford.
CN 2418 - ONR 2102
118 cars in lifted 37 for a total of 155 cars out.
Don't know when he arrived. After about 45 minutes he finally got up to 70 lbs and he was able to do a brake test and depart Brantford.
The following shots are between the west end of the yard and Hardy near the Brant Ave bridge.
Boy was he working to lift this train up the grade out of Brantford. Would love to have had the video camera with me. During conversations with the Dispatcher after the head end was passing Hardy the Dispatcher was asking how he was making out and they said OK considering they had over 9,000 tons and over 10,000 feet.
