Friday, May 16, 2008

Trackside Log for Friday, May 16, 2008

Today started at a car rental agency. The previous day we discovered that our rental Grand Prix had a malfunctioning fuel gauge. This is not good when you're driving around remote parts of Saskatchewan. You really want to know how much fuel you have in the tank. We made arrangements to exchange cars this morning. Our first replacement was a Toyota Sienna but when we got it up to about 80 km/h on the Trans-Canada Highway the trim around the windshield vibrated and made a rather annoying screaming noise. Back to the rental agency where we got our next replacement, a Buick Century. All this took a couple hours. What a pain.
Anyway, when we finally got on the road we found a Canadian Pacific westbound in Ernfold.
  • 1101 CST Ernfold, SK - CP eastbound - CP 5936-CP 5956
After photographing the grain elevator in Morse we espied Canadian Pacific eastbound coal train from the Trans-Canada Highway.
  • 1134 CST Herbert, SK - CP eastbound - CP 8794-CP 8601/CP 8551 (photo)
Next, after photographing the Paterson elevator in Herbert we find yet another Canadian Pacific eastbound. This time it's an intermodal.
  • 1202 CST Fauna, SK - CP eastbound - CP 8862-CP 9543
This was the first Vancouver 2010 Olympic locomotive I'd seen.
After traipsing around some remote areas of Saskatchewan south of Swift Current we arrived in Assiniboia where the Great Western Railway usually stores their engines. Today we found three. One of their newly aquired M-420s was absent.
  • 1610 CST Assiniboia, SK - Great Western Railway power - GWRS 2004 (photo)
  • 1612 CST Assiniboia, SK - Great Western Railway power - GWRS 2000-GWRS 2001 (photo 1, photo 2, photo 3)
Our destination for the evening was Weyburn, Saskatchewan. We followed branch lines all the way there and discovered a Canadian Pacific baggage car parked in the small yard in Amulet.
  • 1859 CST Amulet, SK - CP 404925 tool and cable car (photo)
I have no idea why it was in Amulet which is pretty much the middle of nowhere.

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