Comments on: Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. Witness the leader on CP 235, at Woodstock, ON, on a sunny but very windy autumn day. Almost two years since I’ve seen anything but GE’s on this train, a chance encounter with SD30C-ECO #5043 in the lead was a nice surprise. Here the train is waiting for the conductor to finish his (very long) walk back to the head end after making a mid-train lift out of Coakley siding. These days, 235 is a westbound “land-barge” with its’ usual Montreal-Detroit intermodal cars, but also (in this case, as usual) head-end traffic for London, autoracks lifted at Coakley, the stack cars, and a long cut of autoracks lifted from Wolverton. Quite often the train is well over 10,000 feet out of Woodstock. NOTE: Photo taken from grade crossing; the train had shoved far enough to exit the crossing timing circuit and was stationary at time of photo.

Comments on: Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. Witness the leader on CP 235, at Woodstock, ON, on a sunny but very windy autumn day. Almost two years since I’ve seen anything but GE’s on this train, a chance encounter with SD30C-ECO #5043 in the lead was a nice surprise. Here the train is waiting for the conductor to finish his (very long) walk back to the head end after making a mid-train lift out of Coakley siding. These days, 235 is a westbound “land-barge” with its’ usual Montreal-Detroit intermodal cars, but also (in this case, as usual) head-end traffic for London, autoracks lifted at Coakley, the stack cars, and a long cut of autoracks lifted from Wolverton. Quite often the train is well over 10,000 feet out of Woodstock. NOTE: Photo taken from grade crossing; the train had shoved far enough to exit the crossing timing circuit and was stationary at time of photo. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 07 May 2026 18:00:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1