Comments on: This pair of locomotives east of Port Coquitlam diesel shop match the new four-letter railway company id. CP 8763 is a GE ES44AC, while KCSM 4092 is an SD70ACe assembled at Bombardier-Concarril in Sahagun Mexico. Seems like all KCS units I saw here on my 2 visits, 2 weeks apart, were KCS de Mexico. The sidewalk on the west side of the Coast Meridian overpass provides this safe public viewpoint. Drawback is the bridge’s full-height end-to-end horizontal/vertical rigid steel mesh – the just-under 2 inch square holes are too small for many camera lenses, especially when angling downward, left or right.

By: Kevin Flood

Kevin Flood — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:53:39 +0000

I only managed shots really zoomed in, up to max. Anything less I got the fence in. The fencing on the sides of bridges is a real pain in the Vancouver area. This is not an issue in Ontario, at least not yet.

By: jp4pix

jp4pix — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:46:37 +0000

CP 8763 and many others would look a lot better with more frequent washes. But that would make a lot of dirty water.
Coincidentally, on my previous visit 17 days earlier CP 8763 was sitting near here, on the leftmost track closer to the turntable and the bridge.

By: jp4pix

jp4pix — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:23:48 +0000

When a small-mesh fence stands between me and a scene of interest, I have 2 options. For fences up to 8 feet tall, my 2 step folding step- ladder. Otherwise I use a high-quality zoom lens autofocus compact camera. Mine has a Carl Zeiss lens, with outside diameter 1.5 inches, offset to its left side. For angles well to the left, holding this camera upside down works best.

By: cp5756

cp5756 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:25:16 +0000

that CP unit is begging for a repaint!

By: Kevin Flood

Kevin Flood — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:08:12 +0000

So that begs the question, how did you do it? My lens definitely couldn’t fit.