Comments on: An eastbound unit train with over a mile of grey covered hoppers, almost devoid of unofficial decoration, is approaching MP 35.5 on the CN Oakville Sub. First car is CEFX 319258 followed by many similar; “Do Not Hammer on Car” notice appeared on every CEFX car. Apart from daily intermodal train 148, most freight trains I see here are a mixture of car types – infrequently I catch an all-autorack train, very occasionally a train of windmill flatcars, or CWR. The two leading GE ET44ac Tier-4 units have visibly lower emissions than the trailing Dash 8-40C, and from the amount of exhaust, my guess is that the hoppers are loaded – with what ? Canadian grain doesn’t come this way much, and if it did, one would expect to see some Canada/AB/SK cylindrical grain hoppers.

By: mercer

mercer — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 22:18:32 +0000

Good information Tim, thanks

By: Tim Stevens

Tim Stevens — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 04:23:51 +0000

This was train G89491 04 from Durand, MI off of one of the shortlines (which doesn’t make much sense, as the train should’ve been profiled as G89461 04 in that case…) to Becancour, PQ.

CN ran another one of these soybean trains on November 17th through Southern Ontario. This one was from Ida Grove, IA to Becancour, PQ.

By: jknott86

jknott86 — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:15:38 +0000

Confirmed elsewhere these were indeed soybean loads.

Bruce, I am assuming it was for Viterra as well.

By: mercer

mercer — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 20:50:50 +0000

Viterra Oilseed Processing, Becancour ?

By: Stuart Streit

Stuart Streit — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:35:29 +0000

You can count the cars here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1MTDNDtGOE

By: awmooney

awmooney — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 02:28:31 +0000

I saw this at Lynden W. Certainly was long. Anyone with a car count?

By: mberry

mberry — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 02:10:00 +0000

Indeed, going to Becancour, Qc.

By: jknott86

jknott86 — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:17:11 +0000

I saw elsewhere that the symbol was G894

By: Snake2

Snake2 — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:01:10 +0000

it was a grain train, symbolled as a 394

By: jknott86

jknott86 — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 19:19:30 +0000

My guess is soybean loads.