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Well, it just wouldn't be me if I didn't sneak in a Work Equipment image among all those uncharacteristic (for me) station photos I've been posting the last few weeks. :-)
GREX 2700 was one of two GREX Dump Trains (GREX 2400 being the other) working out of HBR's Churchill, MB yard each day I was in the northern Manitoba town. Train after train of crushed material left the yard each morning to be dumped along the right-of-way south of town. On my trip into and out of Churchill on VIA 693 & 692, I noticed several Harsco MK IV tampers and Knox Kershaw ballast regulators surfacing track that had been flooded with fresh crushed ballast. The wye at Churchill South was having new rail installed, and a bulkhead flat (UCRY 873032) of new track ties was being unloaded in the yard at Churchill as well. There was no shortage of manpower, vehicles, or equipment (both HBR & contractors) in Churchill, which made it quite clear there was a tremendous effort being made to rehabilitate and upgrade this portion of the HBR's Herchmer Subdivision. While it was interesting and exciting to see all the equipment and work going on, I was also quite content to be on the retired side of my railroad career.
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Caption: Well, it just wouldn't be me if I didn't sneak in a Work Equipment image among all those uncharacteristic (for me) station photos I've been posting the last few weeks. :-) GREX 2700 was one of two GREX Dump Trains (GREX 2400 being the other) working out of HBR's Churchill, MB yard each day I was in the northern Manitoba town. Train after train of crushed material left the yard each morning to be dumped along the right-of-way south of town. On my trip into and out of Churchill on VIA 693 & 692, I noticed several Harsco MK IV tampers and Knox Kershaw ballast regulators surfacing track that had been flooded with fresh crushed ballast. The wye at Churchill South was having new rail installed, and a bulkhead flat (UCRY 873032) of new track ties was being unloaded in the yard at Churchill as well. There was no shortage of manpower, vehicles, or equipment (both HBR & contractors) in Churchill, which made it quite clear there was a tremendous effort being made to rehabilitate and upgrade this portion of the HBR's Herchmer Subdivision. While it was interesting and exciting to see all the equipment and work going on, I was also quite content to be on the retired side of my railroad career.

Photographer:
Paul O'Shell [406] (more) (contact)
Date: 08/04/2022 (search)
Railway: Hudson Bay Railway (search)
Reporting Marks: GREX 2700 (search)
Train Symbol: n/a (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Churchill/Herchmer (search)
City/Town: Churchill (search)
Province: Manitoba (search)
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