Trackside Log for Monday, October 9, 2006

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving! It was another nice day so I headed to Niagara Falls to photograph the Maple Leaf at the station. While waiting I also took a shot of Via train 92 parked at the station.

• 1021 Niagara Falls - Via 92 west - VIA 915
• 1035 Niagara Falls - Via 97 east - AMTK 133

I had a chat with a bloke from England who was also photographing the Maple Leaf. Once it departed I drove to Fort Erie to see what was running. Before long train 564 arrived at Duff to lift track EE01.

• 1156 Duff (Fort Erie) - CN 564 east - CN 4143-CN 4116
• 1325 Fort Erie - NS 369 west - NS 8808-NS 2701
• 1401 Fort Erie - CP 257 west - CP 9804
• 1408 Fort Erie - NS 369 east - NS 2701-NS 8808

I was getting a bit restless so I left Fort Erie. En route to Welland I found Canadian Pacific job 1 returning to the yard.

• 1457 Welland - CP job 1 north - CP 3038-CP 3096

Oddly, I also discovered a shiny new parked BNSF SD70ACe.

• 1509 Cooks Mills - parked power - BNSF 9351

I heard Canadian National train 531 getting ready to leave Port Robinson so I moved to a new location.

• 1624 Cooks Mills - CN 531 east - CN 2652-CN 5377

The sky was starting to cloud up so I elected to call it a day.