Took a buddy/co worker out railfanning to the CN mainline east of the city. We were out there for 3+ hours and saw 5 trains. lots of photos between the 2 of us.
We took pics of one train and then heard some radio chatter of another train thanking (the one just passed) for the heads up?? Turned out this first train radio'ed back to the second train saying there's a couple train goons trackside. So when the second train came along, he blasted the horns for us and gave a 'high 5' to us.
Most exciting part was rather funny. Frank thought he could hear distant rumbling from the west. I thought I heard something from the north so I said lets go to the diamond (where CP crosses the CN line) As we were heading eastward, I saw exhaust in the distance which meant an unexpected westbound. As we got to the CP crossing, I spotting a CP grain train coming out from behind a treeline, which meant a meet between the CP and CN. Well, the CN intermodal stopped/turned off headlights, the CP sat stopped and Frank looked back and saw an intermodal coming east which seemed like it had the priority at the diamond. So 3 trains just like that.
Also saw a Mammoet (large european crane) on a 8axle HD flat car.
First train had 2 larger locos and a mother/slug set but didn't notice the slug until I had already snapped off continous pics of lead unit (rats)
Great way to start the long week. try to get some pics resized and uploaded to ya.
