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Shooting GWRS in the summer is far from ideal, as high summer temperatures often restrict shortline operations and grain traffic is generally at its driest. This short and overpowered weekly run back in July demonstrated this well, as it was outbound from Assiniboia as early as 2am, and would finish working Neville and tie down by roughly 7am. This was uncharted territory for me, and I miscalculated that they would have work along the way to Neville, so after detouring to each siding up to about halfway without any sign of them, I quickly realized they would soon be at their terminus, and I narrowly beat them to Neville by only about 3 minutes. On point is one of GWRS' newest acquisitions of 4-axle power; 577 was one of two ex-Conrail B40-8s purchased from GECX in 2021 and got a fresh coat of GWRS paint added prior to delivery. Trailing is an ex-ATSF B40-8W still in BNSF H2 paint.
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Caption: Shooting GWRS in the summer is far from ideal, as high summer temperatures often restrict shortline operations and grain traffic is generally at its driest. This short and overpowered weekly run back in July demonstrated this well, as it was outbound from Assiniboia as early as 2am, and would finish working Neville and tie down by roughly 7am. This was uncharted territory for me, and I miscalculated that they would have work along the way to Neville, so after detouring to each siding up to about halfway without any sign of them, I quickly realized they would soon be at their terminus, and I narrowly beat them to Neville by only about 3 minutes. On point is one of GWRS' newest acquisitions of 4-axle power; 577 was one of two ex-Conrail B40-8s purchased from GECX in 2021 and got a fresh coat of GWRS paint added prior to delivery. Trailing is an ex-ATSF B40-8W still in BNSF H2 paint.

Photographer:
Eric Fallas [55] (more) (contact)
Date: 07/25/2023 (search)
Railway: Great Western Railway (search)
Reporting Marks: GWRS 577 (search)
Train Symbol: Neville Turn (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Mile 28 Vanguard Sub (search)
City/Town: Neville (search)
Province: Saskatchewan (search)
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  1. Nicely done. Too bad the MLW’s are gone but they’re dissapearing everywhere these days.

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