Caption: Taking a brief break from my Huron Central shots to put this up.
Today, I received an email from Bill Miller via the Yahoo FPON group that the BNSFs on this train were still in Toronto yard. About an hour after the shipment tracker reported the third unit as arriving in Obico, I decided to go out to Milton to get a shot of them that wasn't at Lisgar GO - that place hasn't been shot at enough yet!
Unfortunately after leaving my house and clearing off the car, I heard GM's working their way up the grade by my house, so I decided to hammer it west on the 401 to get a shot featuring the farm bridge in Campbellville. While I made it there on time, seconds before I was going to go across, an eastbound solo AC44 powermove rolled through.
The gates stayed down, and this train was quickly approaching, so I just resorted to a gate shot.
I tried to chase this to somewhere in the area west of Guelph Junction, but after slowly passing me they highballed it up to 60 in no time, and when I could finally see them again, they were going faster than me! I decided to then head for home.
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Great photo Warren, I do like the integration of the crossing bar into the shot and the power makes it all the better.
Thank you Alex. I would have liked the other side to feature the bridge more as well as get a not-so-tight angle, but I made do with what I had. If not for that solo GE powermove I could have switched sides!