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2010
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30.01.10.shtml | January 30th, 2010 Steve needed to go down to Hamilton to pick something up, so he picked me up and we hit the Steel City's industrial tracks. We shot 3 QNSL SD40s parked in the harbour area, CP 426, CN probably 421, and SOR working at Stelco with three geeps. Not bad for an unplanned outing! |
20.02.10.shtml | February 20th, 2010 Mischa and I went down to Hamilton for the morning. We didn't find anything in Hamilton, owing largely to a pub that took nearly an hour to bring burgers to the table, but did get two at Guelph Junction. |
01.04.10.shtml | April 1st, 2010 Travelling to visit family for the long weekend, we stopped at Belleville to shoot CN #369, and took a few minutes at Dorion to see the AMT commuter train rush. |
18.04.10.shtml | April 18th, 2010 CN #525 passed through Georgetown station with mostly new boxcars from NSC as I waited to pick a friend up on the GO bus. |
29.05.10.shtml | May 29th, 2010 The evening of the 28th, Mischa and I went to Guelph station to watch GEXR 432. Months after the arrival of GSCX 7362 and 7369 from the NECR, I still had not seen them running. True to form, the unusual happened right in front of me. We decided to watch the train from the east edge of the Walker Building parking lot at the west end of the Guelph viaduct. Right in front of us, about 6000 feet back, we heard a pop and saw the hosebag separate between two cars. Moments later, 432 was stopped in emergency and, being the good foaming samaratins we are, we took off to try and find the head end to alert them to the reason for their emergency brake application. After rendering the crew assistance in moving around the two kilometre long train to repair it, 432 set off for Toronto with 3 cars jettisoned in the out-of-service Guelph siding. The next day, I shot a very short X432 lifting the cars which were repaired over night after stopping at the farmers' market for my week's vegetables. |
03.06.10.shtml | June 3rd, 2010 I stopped at Guelph Junction for a few minutes, missing 243 and catching 421 with 3 SD40-2s. |
15.06.10.shtml | June 15th, 2010 With only a few days left before I moved out of Guelph, CN 6167 was finally moved across the tracks to its new home as part of the city's new Transit Hub. I was only able to watch a few minutes of the progress. |
29.07.10.shtml | July 29th, 2010 We took off after CN 396 with an EJE unit catching it at Lynden Junction and again at Aldershot station. |
01.09.10.shtml | September 1st, 2010 Sam and I met up in St-Esprit and we took off for a day of seeing what we could see. He showed me the bridges at St-Ursule and St-Leonard and we caught a QGRY train coming into Trois-Rivieres. Another great day with one of the Montreal masters. |
14.10.10.shtml | October 14th, 2010 Traveling from my new apartment in Gatineau along the QGRY to west in my first explorative journey in the area, I found two units parked at Masson and a switcher working in the yard at Thurso. I was expecting a train from Ste-Therese as well but it did not materialise and likely came shortly after my departure. The tracks in Gatineau proper along the QGRY Lachute sub have been ripped recently enough that some of the trucks involved are still kicking around. So much for any thoughts of running the O-train across the bridge into Gatineau (same alignment)! |
23.10.10.shtml | October 23rd, 2010 I went down to Cornwall to have dinner with an old friend from high school and ran across a Baldwin electric parked next to Brookdale Ave that I am pretty sure was not there last time I went to the city. |
27.10.10.shtml | October 27th, 2010 I had a couple of hours to kill in Montreal in the evening so went over to check the Deux-Montagnes sub, an electric commuter line that runs from Central station through the mountain to the north. |
30.10.10.shtml | October 30th, 2010 I went to the east of Montreal to do some preliminary exploring finding a yard job working with 4 GP9s and CN 461 heading west, and worked my way along the CP commuter track west out of Windsor station along de Maisonneuve but did not go when any trains were scheduled. I then explored one edge of CP St-Luc yard before running out of time, which is just as well as the weather was quite uncooperative for the whole day. |