A CP meet on The Carberry sub.

On June 29 we went out to The CP Carberry sub to shoot some trains. When we first got there an eastbound intermodal was approaching so I had to set up quickly. Heres the shot

After that the signals turned off but then turned on again at 21:00. First they were all red then the top on turned green meaning an eastbound train. Then I saw the eastbound's headlights but then a westbound's headlights. The westbound had grain and other interesting things on it it came first

Then came the eastbound,

I turned the camera around at 1:36 in the video to shoot the eastbound. Well that was a nice evening on the Carberry sub in Woodman.

"The Canadian" on Victoria Day.

On holiday Monday we went out to shoot "The Canadian" at noon. I wanted to go to the overpass at Route 90 because I never filmed a VIA train there. At about 12:15 the train came into sight. The leading unit was  6458. There was twenty cars with an extra two deadhead sleeper cars.

The going away shot turned out good with the bridge,

I also noticed a lot of people aboard, this is probably because its a holiday. It's nice to see passenger trains on holidays.

Monday's "The Canadian"

We went to Wilkes ave at around noon to shoot Via rails The Canadian. On our way there we saw BNSF 2756  pushing a transfer to Fort Rouge. I waited at the diamond for about 10-20 minutes and then sure enough I saw the headlights come around the corner at The Portage Junction. Via 6452 was the lead loco of th ten cars train, The second unit had some kind of ad on it. Here are the shots i took.

  

  

  

  

 Then it disappeared as it went West to it's far destination, British Columbia.

Two trains on The Sprague

When we were driving on Highway 1 East of  Winnipeg we saw a train on The Sprague sub.At first I thought we totally missed it but i noticed it was going really slow into the siding. It had two DPUs in the middle so it was a must catch. We went all the way to Highway 206 to see it had came to a stop in the siding and the Westbound signal was green so I new another train was going to come. A few minutes later this train came into sight and rolled past me.

As you  can see in The video the train is going really fast.

About 16 minutes later The other train left the siding and headed East.

So this was a pretty good catch on The Sprague hopefully we'll get more another time.