Comments on: The Best Surprise After just missing a WB with a CREX leader by a minute I was quite frustrated. The train just meet an EB here, but it still had to wait for another EB train at Humber. Crossing over the busy Weston road waiting for a quick EB to shoot, I noticed something that definitely isn’t a red locomotive in the distance! Here an F59 takes the lead of an equipment move to Union, rerouting to the Bala sub to reverse to Mimico. This was probably one of the best examples of just waiting at a location for a train while not expecting anything good! If anyone knows the last time this has happened, let me know in the comments!

By: TheBosnianCanadian

TheBosnianCanadian — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:09:19 +0000

Thanks Steve. Surprisingly no, they took the Bala as I tracked them on ATCS to confirm

Stephen C. Host — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:01:30 +0000

Right place right time! Nice work – had I been there that’s where I would have been!

These trains went to the Bala to Mimico not the Newmarket? A strange routing for sure

mberry — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:53:27 +0000

Um, wow