Trains and Such

The Pull

Early morning finds me hanging out at mile 151 on the Brooks sub near Dalemead AB. Having been here before where the track is twined, I wasn't surprised to see a train in the distance with its lights off patiently waiting on the north track back beyond the control lights, the Cargill elevator seen further back.
Listening to my scanner told me that a empty potash unit train was headed east on the south track, and would meet and pass 8645 with its loaded grain hoppers.

Not interested beyond observing the potash train with its empty hoppers roll past my location, I knew that the grain train would soon begin to pull in my direction.
Sure enough, once the potash train was gone, the grain train seen here with 8645 in the lead turned its lights on and began to pull.
I enjoyed listening to the locomotives with their prime-movers working hard to get the train up to speed as it pulled past my location with permission to enter the yard in Calgary, its final destination the west coast.

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