This afternoon I was able to sneak out of work a little early (with permission, of course) and venture out to see what was moving on the CN. I knew there was a northbound coming up the hill, and it looked like something headed south on the Rainy Sub too.
As I reached Highway 2 at the Morris Thomas Road intersection, I was greeted by the passage of the lone locomotive at the head of the train. After a right turn, I managed to get in position for a shot at Munger, but the clouds made it a pretty blah attempt.
So I swung over to Simar for a peek up the tracks, which revealed a train on the main with the headlight off. Not being sure what that meant, I ran down to Adolph and considered waiting for another train coming up the hill, but the clouds were still pretty thick. Some blue sky to the west inspired me to backtrack. A glance at ATCS revealed that the train at Simar now had a light so I headed back there for this shot.
Headlight was on now! With that one bagged, I checked the status of the next northbound and found he was close to Adolph already. With the sun peeking through the clouds from time to time now, I decided to try Canosia Road for the final shot of the day. A wonderful sucker hole appeared and I opened fire at long range, getting this.
And then the sun slipped behind a cloud, which resulted in the bland image below. If it was just a couple of GE's I wouldn't mind so much, but a pair of SD75's up front is not so common. Would have liked to have had the sucker hole here.
Feeling frustrated and with nothing close by on the radar, I headed for home. Still, can't be too disappointed seeing 3 in a long hour. It was better than staring at outlook and Microsoft Teams, for sure. Maybe tomorrow there will be first snow shots to get.
No comments:
Post a Comment