Canadian Railroads > CN B730 before and after a crew change

This past Saturday CN ran loaded potash train CN B730 into Montreal on a sunny morning, allowing me to get a shot I'd been meaning to do for awhile (the first one). The train consisted of CN 3118 & CN 2964 up front, CN 3041 mid-train and CN 3062 on the tail end as, with 205 potash loads destined for Saint John, NB.

1-The train is passing through the Montreal suburb of Beaconsfield at 1000 and is about ten miles away from changing crews at Turcot West.

2&3-It's a bit over an hour later and a new crew is onboard as the train passes through St-Henri, passing VIA 65 in the process.

Michael Berry

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"205 potash loads" good grief that is one heavy train.

Very nice shots of the Potash train. What a train it was with all that many cars and units.

Stanley Jackowski
Valrico, FL

hoggerdoug Wrote:
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> "205 potash loads" good grief that is one heavy
> train.

About 30,000 tons!

Michael

I forgot to mention, not very often to see the DPU's split in 2 places in the train, or at least not common in Canada.
Doug

Mberry Wrote:
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> hoggerdoug Wrote:
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> > "205 potash loads" good grief that is one
> heavy
> > train.
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> About 30,000 tons!
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> Michael

hoggerdoug Wrote:
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> I forgot to mention, not very often to see the
> DPU's split in 2 places in the train, or at least
> not common in Canada.
> Doug
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> Mberry Wrote:
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> > hoggerdoug Wrote:
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> > > "205 potash loads" good grief that is one
> > heavy
> > > train.
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> > About 30,000 tons!
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> > Michael


Seems to be fairly common on CP, at least out west. A few years back I saw a CP intermodal train in Montreal with power at the front, middle and rear.

Michael