Canadian Railroads > Laggan Sub - Jan 15

Eastbound 200 at Ozada East. Bound for Edmonton.
 

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Eastbound intermodal (prob 112) at Gap Lake

 

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420 axles

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Always love your images in the Rockies...surprised at the lack of snow
Brian in Keizer

A very lovely contrast between the colors on those containers and the winter trees and the snow covered mountains! And such a difference in snow coverage between this side of the mountains and the west side.

Tim
mp35mountain

Is 200 a manifest train that CP throws whatever on it? Any idea as to its destination?

Michael

Mberry Wrote:
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> Is 200 a manifest train that CP throws whatever on
> it? Any idea as to its destination?
>
> Michael

Yes it is a manifest train. 200 is Vancouver-Edmonton (Scotford) and 201 the reverse. They are more often than daily. For the last few years, it looks more like a unit train of tankers than a mixed freight. The tankers are usually mixed products with crude oil, diesel and jet fuel being the most common. There is no dedicated intermodal train that runs Vancouver-Edmonton on CP so they put any Edmonton cans on 200. The cans are usually all overseas containers. They will also throw on specialty grain cars and chemical tankers picked up along the Leduc and Red Deer subs. They used to also lift any tankers generated along the Laggan but that seems to only be handled by 400/401 now. 

During the Investor Day presentation back in October they talked about having only 75% of the current capacity used between Edmonton and Vancouver. They evidently have the ability to add an additional locomotive to get additional capacity.  I have seen reports of a train 203 running on selected days in addition to 201 as well.

Tim
mp35mountain

KickingHorse Wrote:
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> Mberry Wrote:
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> > Is 200 a manifest train that CP throws whatever
> on
> > it? Any idea as to its destination?
> >
> > Michael
>
> Yes it is a manifest train. 200 is
> Vancouver-Edmonton (Scotford) and 201 the reverse.
> They are more often than daily. For the last few
> years, it looks more like a unit train of tankers
> than a mixed freight. The tankers are usually
> mixed products with crude oil, diesel and jet fuel
> being the most common. There is no dedicated
> intermodal train that runs Vancouver-Edmonton on
> CP so they put any Edmonton cans on 200. The cans
> are usually all overseas containers. They will
> also throw on specialty grain cars and chemical
> tankers picked up along the Leduc and Red Deer
> subs. They used to also lift any tankers generated
> along the Laggan but that seems to only be handled
> by 400/401 now. 

Okay, thanks for the info.