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Canadian Railroads > Laggan Sub - July 14Date: 07/14/18 13:33 Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse Westbound IM #101 crossing Banff Avenue (mile 79.x)
Cascade Mountain 466 axles    Date: 07/14/18 13:36 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse 101
   Date: 07/14/18 13:43 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse "CP 9812 clear signal at Banff East"
Westbound manifest #201 with mostly tankers 566 axles    Date: 07/14/18 13:49 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse The tankers in the back half of the train were mostly placarded 1202 - Diesel
   Date: 07/14/18 13:55 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse Now departing Banff siding after 101 and 201 went by is an eastbound sulphur empties #600
   Date: 07/14/18 14:00 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse Chased 600 eastward and got by it at mile 65. Here it is approaching Exshaw at mile 58.x
416 axles    Date: 07/14/18 14:13 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse Lafarge's switcher is spotting empites under the loadout tower
Lafarge GP10 EMD built 01/1956 Serial #- 20797 ex Western Rail - 1998 exx Pend Oreille Valley Railraod #1749 - 1998 exxx CC&P #1749 - 1997 exxxx CC&P #8159 - 12/1985 exxxxx IC GP10 #8159 - 4/1969 nee IC GP9 #9159    Date: 07/14/18 14:17 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse Not sure if the Exshaw switcher was working today or if it's lunchtime.
May and June it was the 3114/2293 These guys took over last week   Date: 07/14/18 15:00 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: mp35mountain Kicking Horse,
As always beautiful scenery and I love the containers and freight cars! Tim mp35mountain Date: 07/14/18 15:42 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: cn1063 The Exshaw swtr was working today, and will be working tomorrow. Did I park the units in good enough light for photos?
Date: 07/14/18 17:34 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: Train611 Fantastic part of the railroad world!
Nice work. 611 Posted from iPhone Date: 07/14/18 20:38 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse Thanks guys.
Later this evening ...... The eastbound Rocky Mountaineer stops in Canmore to switch the head end crew and detrain the service crew who walks to the hotel. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/14/18 21:51 by KickingHorse.    Date: 07/14/18 20:43 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse And off it goes to Calgary for cleaning and servicing.
   Date: 07/14/18 20:48 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse Didn't get very far and along comes an extra big 400
   Date: 07/14/18 20:52 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse 644 axles
   Date: 07/14/18 22:09 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: grandroad Kickinghorse, Wow, super photos on a great day!
Paul Brennecke Golden, CO Date: 07/14/18 22:58 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: RogersPass Hi Kicking Horse,
Great Photos and I hope you post more. I always look for your posts first as I would love to return some day soon. Q, I the photo of the Gold Leaf cars, one is higher than the others, Any idea why and in another the same photo shows what looks like shadows, Any ideas as to why?? Many thanks as per norm youur reply.. Cheers Brian in New Zealand.. Date: 07/15/18 07:21 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: mp35mountain That's a very interesting Co-Steel gondola.
Tim mp35mountain Date: 07/16/18 10:55 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: spwolfmtn With CP's huge trains, I'm curious what the 24 hour train count is through there and the breakdown (ie intermodal, manifest, unit trains)? Is it pretty much 2 monster intermodals each way between Vancouver and Toronto/Montreal and Chicago, then maybe one monster manifest each way? Then the rest being grain, potash, and sulfur?
Date: 07/16/18 12:45 Re: Laggan Sub - July 14 Author: KickingHorse There are 3 pairs of daily intermodals, all usually monsters.
100/101 - Vancouver-Toronto 112/113 - Vancouver-Montreal 198/199 - Vancouver-Chicago 198/199 are often the biggest but hard to catch on the Laggan - they normally go through at night. There is a daily manifest pair 400/401 that does most of the lift/setoffs on the main between Vancouver and Calgary. Local switchers will collect/distribute cars into/from certain points for 400/401. On the Laggan, the Exshaw switcher services the 3 rock industries in the area - Lafarge, Graymont and Baymag. In the evening, the same 2 units operate as the Copithorne switcher switching tank cars at Suncor's Wildact Hills gas plant (aside the mainline) and Shell's Jumping Pound gas plant (end of the Copithorne spur). Both those plants are near Cochrane. Both use Exshaw yard and the Gap storage tracks for exchanging with 400/401. There is a nominally called manifest pair 200/201 that runs Vancouver-Edmonton. For the last couple of years that train is mostly tank cars - crude, refined fuel and chemicals. This pair will also carry the Vancouver-Edmonton intermodal and just about anything else generated north of Calgary. Occasionally they could do a lift/setoff at Exshaw or Gap There have benn many times recently where I've 2 of these each way in the daylight alone. Grain - lots of it. Potash - when the market is good, we'll get 2 or 3 each way per day. Sulphur - far less than daily. Coal - zero Now that the grain trains have grown in length, I'm thinking there's still 20-25 trains per day. |