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November 23, 2008, on train 571 at Williams Lake, BC the former BC Rail, getting ready to leave town. Had CN 5663 leading, the yard was in the clear with CN power, hard to believe it was BC Rail not long ago.

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a grab shot at Gibraltar, something was quite dead between the rails and  we disturbed some feathered critters  getting lunch. One bald eagle and 5 crows in flight.
last two shots a Quesnel in the dark.

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video clip on Deep Creek bridge crossing over Hawks Creek.  This unit 5663 sure seemed to have a long nose. My imagination??
thanks for looking.
Doug

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Your photos in this long-running series are truely rare since they are taken from the cab.
Thanks for posting these.
Bob

refarkas Wrote:
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> Your photos in this long-running series are truely
> rare since they are taken from the cab.
> Thanks for posting these.
> Bob

Thanks Bob.  "on this day" will be retiring soon, stay tuned.
Doug

hoggerdoug Wrote:
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> video clip on Deep Creek bridge crossing over
> Hawks Creek.  This unit 5663 sure seemed to have
> a long nose. My imagination??
> thanks for looking.
> Doug

If you mean a long nose in comparison to one of the C40-8M's, it's not your imagination. I don't know the dimensions, but the GE units, conventional cabs, had a shorter short hood, compared to GM's proportions, and it carried through to the wide-nose versions as well, I think. Same with MLW's wide-nose, which you'd have also ridden on BCR, I guess.
Fred