Eastern Railroad Discussion > CN "GT" 8952 east on NS @ Elkhart, IN, this am

Wow, what a combo!

While reviewing the overnight action on Virtual Railfan's Elkhart, IN camera, found this.

An eastbound, 4:12 am, EST, with new CN heritage unit 8952, the Grand Trunk unit. Even more amazing, the trailing unit.

My eyes are pretty poor, but it appears to be one on the last CN Daash 8 40-8CM (or something like that) zebra units.

Train is unit train of two-bay covered hoppers (fracking sand?).

Having been born in Durand, MI, this picture will keep a smile on my face for a long time.

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CR4124 Wrote:
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> Wow, what a combo!
>
> While reviewing the overnight action on Virtual
> Railfan's Elkhart, IN camera, found this.
>
> An eastbound, 4:12 am, EST, with new CN heritage
> unit 8952, the Grand Trunk unit. Even more
> amazing, the trailing unit.
>
> My eyes are pretty poor, but it appears to be one
> on the last CN Daash 8 40-8CM (or something like
> that) zebra units.
>
> Train is unit train of two-bay covered hoppers
> (fracking sand?).
>
> Having been born in Durand, MI, this picture will
> keep a smile on my face for a long time.

You'd be correct. Train was 68N, loaded frac sand train to Sayre, PA