Caption: See audio recordings at bottom of caption! - Back to my oldies... 10 years ago, CSX D725 (Sarnia, Ontario to Chatham, Ontario turn) is Southbound on the Sarnia Subdivision at around mile 53, with 49 cars in tow and two CP SD40-2's for power, which were run-through, as part of the agreement with CP. This train became CP 522 at Chatham, where CP delivered the train to CSX in Detroit and I believe the train continued to Toledo over CSX Rails.

At this time, D725 ran six days a week (mon-sat) and two days a week it brought a pair of CSX engines to Chatham for D724 (Chatham to Blenheim, back to Sarnia) - when I arrived at Chatham later that morning, I noted two engines waiting for a D724 ( 2570 and 2690) - so I was in luck, two jobs on the road in one day. I spent a lot of time documenting the Sarnia Subdivision operations during this time, it was on borrowed time and we all knew it - this place was like a time machine right out of the 70's..

One thing I did at the time was bring a laptop with me to record the scanner audio.. here is a clip of D725 talking to the Wallaceburg RTC clearing South Sarnia (10 miles north) and extending their clearance to mile 23. Note: Clearance two would have been to CN 434 (Fargo to South Chatham, coming off the CASO) earlier in the morning. Click here for the audio