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With 2020 vacation to be used up in 2021 my family and I decided to see sights in the Montreal area. Poutine, french cuisine and culture, museums, family history (!) and for me, trains. I had very little time for trains. I had always wanted to bag CSX in the Montreal area having been a 'fan of the CSX in the Sarnia region, and with CN circling to buy it time is not on my side. I had one chance - to bag it on my way into town,  and I lucked out. Pictured here is what I found, B783 setting off cars in the CN-CSX interchange near Cecile Jct. This is CN track, former Canada Atlantic Railway (Depot Harbour through the bush/Algonquin to Cantic) that is now abandoned not far from what you see here toward Cantic. Assuming CN is successful in taking over the CSX Massena line into Montreal, I expect this kind of interchanging will end as CN can just take it direct.A nice change for me is bagging something other than GP38-2's in Canada, which is basically all CSX in Ontario had until very recently. This pair was a   Road Slug (a former GP35) and a GP40-2
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Caption: With 2020 vacation to be used up in 2021 my family and I decided to see sights in the Montreal area. Poutine, french cuisine and culture, museums, family history (!) and for me, trains. I had very little time for trains. I had always wanted to bag CSX in the Montreal area having been a 'fan of the CSX in the Sarnia region, and with CN circling to buy it time is not on my side. I had one chance - to bag it on my way into town, and I lucked out. Pictured here is what I found, B783 setting off cars in the CN-CSX interchange near Cecile Jct. This is CN track, former Canada Atlantic Railway (Depot Harbour through the bush/Algonquin to Cantic) that is now abandoned not far from what you see here toward Cantic. Assuming CN is successful in taking over the CSX Massena line into Montreal, I expect this kind of interchanging will end as CN can just take it direct.

A nice change for me is bagging something other than GP38-2's in Canada, which is basically all CSX in Ontario had until very recently. This pair was a Road Slug (a former GP35) and a GP40-2

Photographer:
Stephen C. Host [1496] (more) (contact)
Date: 07/22/2021 (search)
Railway: CSX Transportation (search)
Reporting Marks: CSXT 2247, 6936 (search)
Train Symbol: CSXT B785 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Cecile Jct (search)
City/Town: Valleyfield (search)
Province: Quebec (search)
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