February 22nd, 2004
My digital camera returned, we set off for the Copetown train show and made a day of it -- and what a day! Over 200 photos.
Copetown, Ontario
(map) Copetown is the top of Dundas hill. Trains line up at the top as people would at a waterslide, and other trains slowly grind their way up the hill. It's just to the East of Brantford.
April 15th, 2006
We went down to Copetown to start the day and ended up moving around over the next 11 hours or so, catching 15 trains. Not bad for a holiday weekend!
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CN #392 starts its cautious descent down Copetown hill.
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CN #385 grinds up the last mile of Copetown grade.
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CN #390 starts down Copetown grade with a grey WC leader.
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CN #148 starts gently down the hill with 3 SD75is for power.
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CN #398 starts down the hill with a UP unit trailing.
May 20th, 2006
I wasn't planning to railfan today, so I only spent 10 hours trackside... today's haul: Via #70, CN #390 (with CEFX-CSX for power), and NS #327 (2 BNSF executive units) at Copetown, NS #327 again and CN #148 at Ingersoll, CP #159, CP #424, CP London Pickup, and CN #399 at London, and CN #393, CN #422, CN #398 (with a TTX caboose!), CN #421, CN #396, CN #435, and CN #275 at mile 30.
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VIA #70 starts down Copetown hill.
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CN #392 heads down Copetown hill with a CEFX and CSX engine for power.
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NS #327 climbs Copetown grade with 2 BNSF executive units, the first still in unpatched BN paint.
December 9th, 2006
With credible rumours of NS 327 and 328 being discontinued at the end of the year circulating, I chased NS #328 from Paris, where I arrived at the same time as it did, to Grimsby via Copetown before catching CP #127 and #159 at Guelph Junction and heading home.
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NS #328 heads down the hill at Copetown.
March 11th, 2007
Jay warned me about a CP #244 coming wtih CP 8798 leading. Wanting my 100th GEVO, I went for it, shortly finding CP #424 behind it with 6 units, 3 of them some of the less than 20 remaining CP 56xx SD40-2s, then getting CP #159 and #243 block on block westbound. We then headed down to Hamilton West for CN #394 with BNSF-CSXT power, CN #384 with two dimensionals, and migrated westward to Copetown following a CN #547 off to rescue a stalled CN #385, which met #330 at Copetown West before #547 cut off to go back to work at Aldershot. We then moved a couple of miles west, catching CN #385 and CN #394 by the detector at Lynden and finished off the day by checking out the current selection of power parked at Aberdeen yard.
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CN #385 climes through the signals at Copetown West with CN #547 pushing.
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CN #330 passes through Copetown West with three units.
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CN #547 takes the crossover at Copetown West to return to Aldershot and get back to its switching.
