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Hazy Days of Summer

It certainly was on this morning, the skies on the hazy side, possibly due to the temperatures we are experiencing across southern AB. Regardless it was a pleasant morning to be out and about.

Earlier this morning as is typical on Sunday morning, I took a drive down to the Aylth yard to check out the goings on in the yard. With nothing happening in the yard, and then while driving on Ogden Road, I spotted this K&S unit train powering up as it got the light to head east on the Brooks sub. I thought there would be no problem getting ahead of the train, but I ran in to a major roadblock at Glenmore Trail, the road closed for paving.

Now having to back-track had me sweating bullets as to whether I could catch up to the train or not. I finally got on highway 22x headed east just as I heard on my scanner the train trip the detector at mile 163 putting it ahead of me. With a little luck I figured that I could catch it at Strangmuir siding mile 139.

Luck was on my side, as I could see the train crossing over highway 817 west of me as I crossed over the Brooks sub at Strangmuir siding. I drove the extra kilometer up to the vantage point where I wanted to shoot from with the lights of engine 8905 visible in my rearview mirror. Pulling up to a stop, and grabbing my camera, I sprinted across the road just in time to shoot these two photo's, one coming, one going of this K&S unit train eastbound on the Brooks sub at mile 139 with the lead engine 8905 followed by engine 7050, and 178 cars being pushed by engine 8132 the tail-end remote.

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Going away.....
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