Canadian Railroads > MLW Monday-Sherbrooke, QC

Here are two shots from the Jacques-Cartier Boulevard bridge in Sherbrooke, Quebec from the CP Rail years.  Looking east the first shows a westbound container train with five C-424 units in the spring of 1977.  From the same bridge but looking west shows an eastbound "boxes" grain train in February 1980.  Every car on the train is a 40' boxcar loaded with wheat from western Canada and bound for export at the port of Saint John, New Brunswick.  In the distance around a curve in the Magog River one can see the yellow, steel centre cupola caboose.  The grain train is pulled by three C-424 units and an RS-18.

Ken Goslett

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image one, quite a consist and "flying green" flags. 

hoggerdoug Wrote:
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> image one, quite a consist and "flying green"
> flags. 

Indeed.  Those were the days.  Currently CMQ runs each direction through Sherbrooke three or four times per week.  No grain is handled through Saint John and very few containers.

KG

Great shots. The first shot is close to the location in my shot of MMA from 2012 I believe?

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,3707042,3707042#msg-3707042

Michael