Canadian Railroads > Hazardous Commodities and Windmill Towers

This afternoon CN launched two freights west from Montreal to Toronto. The first was 377 a train of largely hazardous commodities from the refineries in east end Montreal. It got an ex-CNW standard cab Dash 8-41C as its leader. Following it was X339 a train of windmill towers from Quebec City. It got an ex-ATSF gullwing cab Dash 8-40C(W) as its sole motive power.

These windmill towers used to be handled by CP. But since EHH and Creel they ae now moved by CN.

Ken Goslett



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/13/17 14:20 by kgmontreal.

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Nice ! Are those windmill parts from Gaspe? Thanks for sharing !!! :):):)

gaspeamtrak Wrote:
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> Nice ! Are those windmill parts from Gaspe?

No. Blades are made in the Gaspe. The tower sections are made by a different company near Trois Rivieres.

KG

Nice shots!

I guess that the hazardous commodities are in the tank cars? Why not just call it what it is, refined oil products or is that too much?

Oddly enough the windmill train was IDed as L339. Presumably it looks better in the books to not run an extra.

Michael