Canadian Railroads > Big Switcher in Rockingham

On August 12, 2011 Dash 8-40C 2125 was working as train 507, the Rockingham Yard switcher in Halifax, NS.  The big GE was shoving stacks into the Fairview Cove container Pier, at the time operated by Ceres Corp. (it's now run by PSA, the same company that runs the south end pier).  At 17:45 a late running Ocean showed up and was nearing the end of CTC at mile 5 of the Bedford Sub.  The passenger train would be at the downtown station in about 15 minutes.

By 18:32, 507 had one more job to do before Q121 left that night, haul the intermodal traffic off the pad at HIT and spot it in the Rockingham G-yard.  I asked one of the engineers how well the 6-axle locomotive worked as a switcher.  He said, "It takes about a week to load, but it'll pull anything."

GTD

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Nice compositions, and I always liked that generation of GEs. In the second photo do we have an almost self portrait of the photographer as a younger man? Using a/c in the van on a hot day for a photo blind?
Fred

feclark Wrote:
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> In the second photo do we have
> an almost self portrait of the photographer as a
> younger man? Using a/c in the van on a hot day for
> a photo blind?

No, that's just the edge of another billboard.  :-) There's a forest of them in that strip of land between the tracks and Bedford Highway.  I had some height, but couldn't avoid them entirely.

GTD

cn6218 Wrote:
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> feclark Wrote:
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> > In the second photo do we have
> > an almost self portrait of the photographer as
> a
> > younger man? Using a/c in the van on a hot day
> for
> > a photo blind?
>
> No, that's just the edge of another billboard. 
> :-) There's a forest of them in that strip of land
> between the tracks and Bedford Highway.  I had
> some height, but couldn't avoid them entirely.
>
> GTD

Thanks, Geoff. I should have twigged because it was in focus as well as your distant subject. It doesn't usually work that way.
Fred