Canadian Railroads > Track Evaluation Train on the Squamish Sub.

CN's TEST cars made their annual Spring visit to the Squamish Sub. today, behind GTW SD40-2 5934.
1. Running as Train 495, the test train met train 546 at the north end of Brunswick siding.
2. The test train then returned to the south end of Brunswick to test the short section of mainline it had missed when taking the siding. Upon arrival in Squamish, the train will swap out GTW 5934 for a locomotive equipped with dynamic brakes.

Loleta Fernbridge

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Nice catch(s)!

First shot, I had to double check what forum I was in - looked
like a really well done HO scale diorama.

/Mitch

Nice to see a veteran GTW unit still earning its keep, even its a long way from home!

Nice to see Grand Trunk on the former BC Rail.

Today marks the 100th Anniversary of the first Grand Trunk Pacific train to arrive at Prince Rupert BC.

As planned by GTP President Rivers-Wilson, what is now BC rail would have been the Grand Trunk Pacific, except that the GTP would have gone straight south from Clinton BC, along Harrison Lake and joined the Fraser valley near Agassiz, then west to Vancouver.

When Charles Hays replaced Rivers-Wilson as President of the Grand Trunk, he changed the western terminus of the GTP to Prince Rupert BC.

. . . and the tail end.

- L.F.

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When was the silhouette of North America behind the "CN" lettering added? I have seen it before a couple times, and I wonder why it's sometimes there and sometimes not. I assumed that it was an old paint addition that got discontinued, but that SD40 looks pretty recently painted.

Tor in Eugene

Torisgod Wrote:
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> When was the silhouette of North America behind
> the "CN" lettering added? I have seen it before a
> couple times, and I wonder why it's sometimes
> there and sometimes not. I assumed that it was an
> old paint addition that got discontinued, but that
> SD40 looks pretty recently painted.
>
> Tor in Eugene

It was used for a couple of years and then discontinued when the CN wanted save money and use a simpler paint scheme.

Great shots, and congrats on a well-deserved IOTD! Your work does not get enough praise and recognition as it should.

John

Nice work on that first shot! I really like that you were able to keep the word "test" from the boxcar in the shot.

- Jeff Carlson

LF

Congrats on IOTD!! Always nice to see a fellow BC'er get 'da good nooze' from Todd and Chris!!

Craig
http://mcmrailvideos.com/

I was wondering why that flat lander was sitting in Squamish yesterday....

I have a photo of I but it doesn't look like I can upload it from my phone

Nice photos!

Posted from iPhone

Thanks, all. It was a fun, if brief, morning at trackside.

L.F.

Wow, what an incredible first shot!!

Ted S-P

You did good.

Nancy