Trackside Log for Thursday, October 5, 2006

This was the last day of my Saskatchewan elevator trip with Sam. We left Wadena and followed several rail lines. It wasn't long before we found a Canadian Pacific train on the Tisdale Subdivision.

• 0950 CST south of Nora, SK - CP southbound - CP 3070-CP 3085-CP 3123-CP 3061

A few hours and a couple subdivisions later we were photographing the elevators at Lake Lenore on Canadian National's Saint Brieux Subdivision when we heard a northbound on the way. A grain tramp was stopping to drop cars at the Pioneer elevator.

• 1231 CST Lake Lenore, SK - CN northbound grain tramp - CN 5536-CN 5624

After running the Saint Brieux Subdivision we concluded our elevator hunt. We had some time to kill before meeting Matt for dinner in Saskatoon so I decided to see if we could find some trains. While driving south toward the mainlines the Canadian Pacific dispatcher mentioned that several trains were converging on Lanigan. Well, I was sold.

• 1435 CST Lanigan, SK - CP eastbound - CP 5922-CP 5953
• 1555 CST Lanigan, SK - CP 541 west - CP 3103-CP 5602
• 1623 CST Lanigan, SK - CP 670 west - CP 9751-CP 5392
• 1651 CST Plunkett, SK - CP westbound - CP 6037-CP 3124

I was happy to see train 670 since it is an interesting unit train. It was getting on so we drove back to Saskatoon where we got a room at the Best Western and met Matt for dinner. It was a great trip and I was sad it was over.