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Ghost Train

Having arrived in the pre-dawn darkness at mile 157 on the Brooks sub and planning on photographing an Intermodal train scheduled to put in an appearance, I wondered what was holding it up.

While listening to my scanner, and listening in on a conversation between the trainmaster in Calgary, and the crew of the train sitting on the north track at Carsland, they reported that the mid-train remote-control locomotive had quit.

Turns out it had possibly run out of fuel, so a lone replacement locomotive was sent out from Calgary to be added to the lead units for the remaining trip in to Calgary.
I did attempt to photograph the replacement loco as it went through mile 157 as seen here, and what you see is the ghost like appearance as the locomotive blew through the frame on its way east.

Well it was in a hurry!

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