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postheadericon A Friday Railfanning Watertown 6/26/2009

A Friday Railfanning Watertown 6/26/2009 Tube. Duration : 8.87 Mins.


On Friday the 26th, I went to Watertown to meet up with Justin (Trainmasterkreks) and Evan (amtrakrules52) for a day of railfanning on the Canadian Pacific mainline. As soon as I arrived, parked my car and got out with bags of camera equipment draped all over me, they were waving their arms and shouting "TRAIN!" The howl of GE prime movers and a BWAAAAAARMP from a K5HL confirmed. I quickly dug out my digital still camera, which has a movie mode I can use as a backup (my regular camcorder would have taken too long to untangle the shoulder strap, remove the lens cap and power up) to record our first train, CP #282 east. Power was ES44ACs CP 8848 and 8886. Following that by about 30 minutes was another eastbound manifest whose ID we couldn't catch. It was led by ES44AC CP 8763, aided by sister 8788 and "Dual Flags" SD40-2 CP 6059. Next, the local train G67 out of Milwaukee came into town as light power, with GP38-2s Soo Line 4424 and CP 4507 (also in the CP Rail "Dual Flags" scheme). After that we moved to the River Road crossing on the east outskirts of town, where we heard the dispatcher hailing "LMIX 424 East." Knowing LMIX was Loram MoW, we thought it was a railgrinder, but upon further research it is a ballast cleaner. It made quite a sight at full highball, with plenty of noise from the horn (and siren!). Our next train was 281, the westbound counterpart of 282, which had met the LMIX train somewhere between here and Duplainville. ES44AC CP 8839 and SD40-2 6051 powered ...

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