Comments on: 10 years ago, BNSF 5493 would have been the highlight ( or finally meeting Mr. Host). But today, nostalgia rules as 6028 and 5935 descend onto the Grand River bridge as they have done for the last 35+ years. I never thought I’d see SD40-2′s leading on CP again( and sure they look a little worse for wear in CP’s worst paint scheme; sweating the assets is still key), but a hot tip made this possible. Thanks Isaac

By: Isaac Bryson

Isaac Bryson — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 02:05:37 +0000

Well I got screwed a half hour done the line by Mile 81. The clouds blocked out the sun within a minute of it showing up, making my video of it very dark.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 02:02:29 +0000

Screwed by clouds? there was no sun to be had at all. Which meant you didn’t have to worry about sun angles

I shot it here with David then chased (rarely successful) toward home and got ahead of it due to the foreman. Two shots!

Very hard to do, almost impossible I must add. Between Killean and Puslinch the crews go as fast as humanely possible.

Arnold, welcome back BTW

By: Isaac Bryson

Isaac Bryson — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:16:48 +0000

You are welcome! Finally found this post again lol. Much nicer then the shot I got with my phone (which is all that I had at the time) but I got the beautiful horn. Seems that everyone west of Guelph Junction got screwed by clouds, and everyone east of there got it backlit. Nice shot!

By: awmooney

awmooney — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:32:39 +0000

This threw me right off. I had to check the photo date over. 2019 ?? Really ??

By: BradKetchen

BradKetchen — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:57:43 +0000

SD40-2′s!! wow. How many left in active service? Great catch indeed.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 01:44:42 +0000

Hahahahah, the highlight!! haha. Great to see you today. I did manage to catch up to it, a foreman had limits and 244 had to slow for him.. got ahead by a few minutes just west of puslinch. A great lunchtime catch. Here’s to many more.