SOR 598 West arrived off the Hagersville Sub. Into the yard to run around their train to head East to Hamilton.
CN 4725
12 flat cars loaded with steel rolls.
Rain to snow to sun in 2 hours this morning.
08:21
CN 394 (I believe)
BNSF 843 - BNSF 876
104 cars
08:36 to 09:35
CN 399 stopped to set-off and lift.
CN 2528 - CN 2693
123 cars in, set-off 8, lifted 15 fly-ash hoppers for Alpena Mi.
08:57 to 09:00
VIA #671 made his station stop
VIA 6407
5 coaches
09:08 to 09:12
VIA #70 made his station stop
VIA 6406
1 baggage car, 5 coaches
While 399 was pumping air after completing his work CN 271 went by.
09:23
CN 271
CN 5713 - BNSF 7260
45 cars
399 started to pull as 271 was going by, the intent was to have him follow 271 from Hardy.
I heard him call the dispatcher and commented that he was having problems with the power, it just wasn't pulling very well and he was down to 2 mph as he was climbing the hill out of Brantford.
He told the dispatcher that he didn't think he was going to make it and suggested he'd have to reduce the train.
The dispatcher said to hold on and he'd check with the Chief.
399 came to a stop and shortly after the dispatcher said the Chief said to keep going, not to reduce the train.
Of course by now with him being stopped and having lost what little momentum he did have there was no way he was going to get it going again.
The decision was then made to double the train to Paris so the conductor started walking back to make the cut.
While this was going on I heard the dispatcher say to NS 327 that he would be meeting 392 at Paris west.
10:30
NS 327
NS 8427 - NS 8988
54 cars
Good size train. Cars were mixed but consisted of a total of 43 high cubes, 9 covered hoppers & 2 empty 89' frame flats.
10:35
CN 399 pulled away with the 1st cut of 46 cars headed to Paris
11:05
CN 392
CN 5633 - BNSF 8627
46 cars
11:21
CN 399 was back from Paris and departed with the remaining 84 cars of his train headed West for Paris.
11:39
CN 385
CN 5780 - CN 2422 - CN 5603
137 cars
Finally 587 was able to get out of the yard after having been ready to go since 399 was starting to pull, before he stalled.
11:43
CN 587 backed out of the yard eastbound for Brant. Jct so he could head downtown on the Burford Spur.
10 covered hoppers
CN 7039
Headed home for lunch and to do stuff around the house then back up again for the following.
16:47 to 16:49
VIA #76 made his station stop
VIA 6407
5 coaches
17:10 to 18:26
CN 398 stopped to make a set-off and lift.
CN 2447 - CN 5326
100 cars in, set-off 49 including 19 tank cars and 23 empty NYDX flyash hoppers from Alpena of course. Lifted 22 cars for 73 cars departing Brantford.
17:13 to 17:16
VIA #675 made his station stop.
VIA 6426
1 baggage car and 6 coaches
It was getting dark when this photo was taken of him arriving, hense the slight blur. Did a little editing to lighten-up the shot so it wasn't so dark.
CN 398 was back onto his train and was pumping air while waiting for the conductor to walk back up when I took this shot.
398 departed at 18:26 and I headed home for the night.
