Trackside Log for Wednesday, August 24, 2005

For a break today I decided to head over to CP's Welland yard to see if anything was hanging around there. As luck would have it train 256 was parked by the yard office.

• 1443 Welland yard - CP 256 south - CP 9632-CP 9537

That was pretty good for a twenty minute break. After work I headed back trackside again. CP job 3 was working Welland yard but nothing else was going on so I headed over to the CN Stamford subdivision. On my way over I heard CN train 531 east leaving Port Robinson. Amazingly I arrived at the Netherby Road crossing moments before 531. I hopped out and photographed it.

• 1658 Netherby Rd., Welland - CN 531 east - GCFX 6072

With nothing better to do that evening I decided to stay and see if anything else would show up. I was pretty sure CP job 3 was going to head to CN's southern yard, so I should at least see it. Sure enough it appeared before long. I photographed it on the CN Stamford subdivision where it dropped 40 cars in CN's Southern yard.

• 1804 Miller Rd., Yager - CP job 3 west - CP 3096-CP 3032
• 1819 Ridge Rd., Welland - CP job 3 west - CP 3096-CP 3032

After dropping the 40 cars job 3 headed back to the CP Hamilton subdivision as light power.

• 1830 Netherby Rd., Welland - CP job 3 east - CP 3032-CP 3096

It looked like that was going to be it so I headed home.