Caption: The flanger blades of 107 (!) year old CP 401005 (Built 1907, rebuilt 1927) do not quit on the approach to Mount Elgin on the Port Burwell sub. After a few days of extreme cold, wind and snowstorms a considerable amount of precipitation had built up on the right of way. The day prior a train ran to Tillsonburg and pushed much of the snow aside. However, warm weather is forecast to arrive on Saturday, and a deep freeze on Sunday - the need to clear the right of way and flangeways of snow before it all turned to solid ice necessitated this plow run.

After following OSR for a while I decided to head home via Stratford after hearing GEXR ran a plow the night before to Goderich. I expected to get a shot of the train parked at the station for the day, but upon arriving I was treated to a plow extra arriving engines first from Goderich, and immediately turning west, for a second plow train on the same day. An experience never to be forgotten and one can only hope but duplicate again in the 21st century. Second photo: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=12924