Recent VIA's

Over the past few weeks I've been able to shoot a few VIA's mostly the eastbound Canadians. The first one is VIA 2 at the Kenaston overpass on Sunday July 31,

An interesting thing about this one is that it had a Coors light Silver bullet unit leading

The next VIA was Tuesdays eastbound Canadian this one was completely normal with no deadheads or wrapped units

The hard thing about shooting this train was that the sun was really bright.

The next VIA was "The Hudson Bay" at  16:06 on Aug 6 at the Kenaston overpass

This is the best shot I've ever gotten of this train

The next VIA was The eastbound Canadian on Sunday Aug 7 at 19:57

 The trailing unit was Loto Quebec

The next one is The Westbound Canadian on Saturday Aug 13 I hadn't seen The westbound for awhile so I really wanted to shoot it

The next day we went out to shoot VIA 693 leaving Winnipeg.

I kind of messed up on the shot because the engineer gave a horn blast which shocked me.

Then finally The Eastbound Canadian

Well that was nice to catch all those Via's

A late VIA 692 on Saturday May 28

We went out to The Kenaston overpass to shoot "The Hudson Bay" arriving in Winnipeg. I waited for a long time for it to show up about 45 minutes.Then finally at about 16:50 I saw the headlights to the West.

This is a shot of the train when it was a long distance away. Note the really dark storm clouds.

This is a shot of it a few meters from the bridge.

Todays "Hudson Bay" had no dome car,usually its on the fourth car.

When I checked my subscriptions on Youtube I noticed that Train Geek also filmed the same train West of me near Diamond heres his his video.

Its funny and interesting when I film the same train as him in a different location.

"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.

A CP local? on Saturday on The Emerson sub

On Saturday May 14  we went out to Saint Boniface to shoot some trains. When we got to Mission street I spotted a CN on The Winnipeg high line  coming from Symington,had no time to set up so I took this quick grab shot.

After that we went to Plinguet street, I started hearing horn blasts from the North meaning that CP was on The Emerson sub. I got excited because I rarely see anything on The Emerson and never shot a southbound either. Here is the head end shot,

I think this train is most likely a local switcher since flooding has effected the route to Noyes Minnesota.

                                                                                       

As you can see in the video the train was going pretty slow, This is due to the signal being yellow and as you can see in this picture the tracks its on look like their not in the best shape,

So that was a nice catch at 20:30 on The Emerson.

VIA's "The Canadian" half an hour late on Saturday May 14

Sorry about the long wait, I have been busy for the past two weeks. Today (May 14) we went to shoot "The Canadian" at noon. We got to the Saint James Junction at about noon so I was worried we might miss it. I waited for awhile and at around 12:30 I saw the headlights at the Portage Junction 3 km away. As you may know "The Canadian" is returning to it's summer size. Here the 2 head end shots I got,

 The 2 units were both refurbished,never seen two at once. 18 cars were on this train.

Heres the going away shot

This was one of the best going away shots I have ever gotten of this train.

As you can hear in the video the engineer was ringing the bell for me. Well its nice to see VIA's "Canadian" in summer form.

A busy day on The Sprague subdivision

On Friday April 29 we went to The Sprague subdivision to shoot some trains. On our way there we past The Red River Floodway, here is a picture of it with The CN train bridge.

As we got further out I noticed something on the tracks.I couldn't figure out what it was. When we got close enough I figured out it was a stopped train. We got up to the head end and shot it at Highway 206.

It also had two DPUs in the middle.

That was nice. I then noticed that the westbound signal was green. So we headed to Station road. I waited for about ten minutes and then the train showed up.It was a CN train with SOO locomotives on it.

It didn't have the ditch lights on.

After that we headed to Murdock road.We waited and after awhile we saw the lights of an eastbound intermodal.We headed to Deacons corner to shoot it. It was going slow but it picked up some speed as it went by. I think the shots I got were pretty nice.

It also had some interesting bonuses
Like this container with a tarp over it.

 and this tank thing.

So this was quite the nice day on the Sprague.

A quick shot of "The Hudson Bay"

On Saturday April 23 we went to Wilkes to get "The Hudson Bay".When we crossed Waverly street I saw headlights to the West. When we got to The Saint James junction it was already there practically .I got my camera out just in time but there was no time to for the tripod. Heres the video

Well it was nice to at least get it on camera.

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.