Canadian Railroads > MLW Monday-North of Superior 1978

Among the most scenic trackage on the CP in eastern Canada is the portion along the north shore of Lake Superior. I made a numerous trips up there in the 1970's. At various points the line clings to cliffs above the lake, crosses a high bridge and pops into and out of tunnels. This should have made for many beautiful photos. Unfortunately, during those summer days of the late 1970's the route was almost devoid of freight trains. The manner in which schedules from Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg fell, most freights passed through the area at night.

There was, however, one exception. That was the Heron Bay subdivision wayfreight. The wayfreight made a daylight turn from Schreiber, its main job being to pick up empty pulpwood log cars at the Kimberly-Clark pulp mill at Terrace Bay, take them east to the Manitouwadge branch and then return with the loaded cars. It's shown here with a C-424, RS-18, C-424 power consist and string of the colourful Kimberly-Clark bulkhead flats.

Ken Goslett



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/18/17 14:09 by kgmontreal.

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That is a great railroad photograph.

Yipes, stripes. Classic composition.
I've seen interesting photos of this area on Railpictures dot net. I've also heard of the challenging traffic levels east of Thunder Bay. Good catch, great stuff.
t4p.

Beauty, Ken! Really like how the lead unit is leaning into the superelevation.

Mike N.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/18/17 15:41 by Helo-Mech.

You really cannot compose a better photograph! The train is perfect, superelevation, lake showing, foreground outcrop does not merge with train, background rock exposures, and yes, great exposure on a cloudy day. Marvellous! And, it looks, taken with the "standard lens", 50 or 55 mm focal length. Pure; what you see is what you shoot.
Fred

feclark Wrote:
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> You really cannot compose a better photograph! The
> train is perfect, superelevation, lake showing,
> foreground outcrop does not merge with train,
> background rock exposures, and yes, great exposure
> on a cloudy day. Marvellous! And, it looks, taken
> with the "standard lens", 50 or 55 mm focal
> length. Pure; what you see is what you shoot.
> Fred

It was taken with a 50mm standard lens on a Nikon. There's no road to the east end of Echo Lake. We were there on foot hiking to/from Mink tunnel.

KG