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Canadian Railroads > A snowy afternoon in DorvalDate: 02/03/19 18:16 A snowy afternoon in Dorval Author: Mberry Yesterday afternoon I spent a couple of hours at the station at Dorval, Qc as the snow continued to fall and I caught a trio of freight trains that would normally be through there in the wee hours of the morning, as well as a pair of VIA Rail trains.
1-First up was CN 310 with CREX 1512 leading (and CN 3842 mid-train). It had crossed over from the north to the south track just west of the station. 2&3-Half an hour later CN 120 passed with CN 2281 and a snowy CN 8829 as DPU. Michael Berry Date: 02/03/19 18:18 Re: A snowy afternoon in Dorval Author: Mberry 4-A late VIA 67 makes its station stop before continuing on its way to Toronto.
5-VIA 26 from Ottawa is making its station stop. The train consists of VIA 917 and four stainless steel cars. 6-Finally, CN 271 with 101 autoracks and CN 8907 & CSXT 8138 for power heads west under the classic signal gantry. Date: 02/03/19 18:42 Re: A snowy afternoon in Dorval Author: Ray_Murphy That's why I didn't see 120 yesterday - it looks like it was 6 hours off its usual schedule!
Ray Date: 02/03/19 18:48 Re: A snowy afternoon in Dorval Author: Mberry Ray_Murphy Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > That's why I didn't see 120 yesterday - it looks > like it was 6 hours off its usual schedule! > > Ray Yep, probably even worse than that. All eastbounds out of Toronto have had massive delays this week. Michael Date: 02/04/19 09:31 Re: A snowy afternoon in Dorval Author: gaspeamtrak Great stuff MB, as usual !
Thank you for sharing !!! :):):) Date: 02/04/19 09:59 Re: A snowy afternoon in Dorval Author: cn6218 Ray_Murphy Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > That's why I didn't see 120 yesterday - it looks > like it was 6 hours off its usual schedule! > > Ray And the previous day's 120 was even later getting into Halifax last night. Finally got here about 20:15 (the power should have gone back west on 121 at 20:30), with only 3 units, no DPU and 290 axles. Apparently the junk cars were left behind in Moncton, and 408 delivered them to Kinsac (just west of Windsor Jct.) early this morning. I guess I won't wait around in the fog for today's 120 to appear any time soon. GTD Date: 02/04/19 18:30 Re: A snowy afternoon in Dorval Author: Ray_Murphy Mberry Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Ray_Murphy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > That's why I didn't see 120 yesterday - it > looks > > like it was 6 hours off its usual schedule! > > > > Ray > > Yep, probably even worse than that. All eastbounds > out of Toronto have had massive delays this week. > > Michael I learned today that there was some kind of incident near Kingston Saturday morning (creating major delays): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-rail-train-hit-by-debris-near-trenton-1.5003651?cmp=rss Later, it came to light that the "debris" was tie plates. It's hard to imagine how tie plates could launch themselves in the freezing snow-covered conditions in the area and break mid-train passenger car windows and rupture locomotive fuel tanks. Ray Date: 02/04/19 18:32 Re: A snowy afternoon in Dorval Author: Mberry Ray_Murphy Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Mberry Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Ray_Murphy Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > That's why I didn't see 120 yesterday - it > > looks > > > like it was 6 hours off its usual schedule! > > > > > > Ray > > > > Yep, probably even worse than that. All > eastbounds > > out of Toronto have had massive delays this > week. > > > > Michael > > I learned today that there was some kind of > incident near Kingston Saturday morning (creating > major delays): > > https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-rail-tra > in-hit-by-debris-near-trenton-1.5003651?cmp=rss > > Later, it came to light that the "debris" was tie > plates. It's hard to imagine how tie plates could > launch themselves in the freezing snow-covered > conditions in the area and break mid-train > passenger car windows and rupture locomotive fuel > tanks. > > Ray Indeed, but 120 and 310 were not affected by that incident.... they were just really late in leaving Toronto. Michael |