Railpictures.ca - Marcus W Stevens Photo: The days assignment for SD40U #6024 is to work a ballast train on the north track of the busy Kingston subdivision. The days of seeing a caboose out on the mainline are pretty much history, so catching one operating as a rider car is as good as it gets these days. The crew of the train is seen making the most of a work window, and are slowly walking along the train dumping ballast where needed. Once the train was west of Newtonville the power ran around the train then headed to Belleville to tie up for the day. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

The days assignment for SD40U #6024 is to work a ballast train on the north track of the busy Kingston subdivision. The days of seeing a caboose out on the mainline are pretty much history, so catching one operating as a rider car is as good as it gets these days. The crew of the train is seen making the most of a work window, and are slowly walking along the train dumping ballast where needed. Once the train was west of Newtonville the power ran around the train then headed to Belleville to tie up for the day.

Caption: The days assignment for SD40U #6024 is to work a ballast train on the north track of the busy Kingston subdivision. The days of seeing a caboose out on the mainline are pretty much history, so catching one operating as a rider car is as good as it gets these days. The crew of the train is seen making the most of a work window, and are slowly walking along the train dumping ballast where needed. Once the train was west of Newtonville the power ran around the train then headed to Belleville to tie up for the day.

Photographer:	Marcus W Stevens [1030] (more) (contact)
Date:	05/20/2001 (search)
Railway:	Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks:	CN 6024 (search)
Train Symbol:	Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS:	Kingston sub. (search)
City/Town:	Newtonville (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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4 Comments

Mike Lockwood

October 17, 2016 at 9:26 am

You must have been using a tall ladder to get that shot, Marcus
Marcus Stevens

October 17, 2016 at 10:26 am

This was just before the old wooden bridge got hit by the stack train and was removed.
Mike Lockwood

October 17, 2016 at 2:43 pm

IIRC, it was a dimensional load on a 305. Close to two years after the bridge was demolished, they stopped dimensional train there to check for clearance… hogger was a little annoyed, told the RTC that the bridge has been gone for sometime now and they need to update their profiles.

Interesting that this work would be done by a Herzog satellite guided ballast train and maybe less photogenic, but certainly more efficient.
Mike Lockwood

October 17, 2016 at 2:43 pm

*work would not be done by Herzog

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Mike Lockwood

October 17, 2016 at 9:26 am

You must have been using a tall ladder to get that shot, Marcus

Marcus Stevens

October 17, 2016 at 10:26 am

This was just before the old wooden bridge got hit by the stack train and was removed.

October 17, 2016 at 2:43 pm

IIRC, it was a dimensional load on a 305. Close to two years after the bridge was demolished, they stopped dimensional train there to check for clearance… hogger was a little annoyed, told the RTC that the bridge has been gone for sometime now and they need to update their profiles.

Interesting that this work would be done by a Herzog satellite guided ballast train and maybe less photogenic, but certainly more efficient.

*work would not be done by Herzog