Trackside Log for Saturday, July 12, 2008

Today I met up with Marcus and we drove out to Brantford for some photography.  Shortly after arriving we found that Canadian National train 580 was about to head out on the Brantford Spur.  We first went to Colborne Street to photograph it.

• 1150 Colborne St., Brantford - CN 580 - CN 4125 (photo)
• 1155 Eagle St., Brantford - CN 580 - CN 4125
• 1201 Port St., Brantford - CN 580 - CN 4125

While train 580 switched at the east end Marcus and I headed over to the west to locate a good spot to photograph the train as it passed by the two former railway bridges over the Grand River.

• 1322 Icomm Dr., Brantford - CN 580 - CN 4125

Again we let them finish switching and waited for them to exit.  We caught them running along Holme Street.

• 1354 Holme St., Brantford - CN 580 - CN 4125

Then we photographed them one last time from the former Grand River Railway bridge in Lorne Park.

• 1401 Lorne Park, Brantford - CN 580 - CN 4125 (photo)

After the fun of chasing 580 around Brantford we grabbed a bit to eat and drove over to Paris Junction to see what might pop up.

• 1517 Paris Junction - CN westbound - CN 2419-CN 2678-CN 2270 (photo)
• 1621 Paris Junction - CN eastbound - CN 5510-CN 5381-CN 5518-CN 5293-CN 5710 (photo)
• 1623 Paris Junction - Via 76 east - VIA 6415 (photo)

After the Via train Marcus and I drove back to Brantford to check out the model railway shop in Brantford station.  After that we departed for our respective homes.  We definitely had fun photographing 580.  The crew likely thought we were nuts, but whatever.