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CN's Brazeau Sub local returns to Edmonton in the early evening. 
I can't be certain, I but I believe that this train was an out-one-day-and-return-the-next operation. 
It may be difficult to determine from the resolution of the photo, but that blue tank car, seven cars back, is an eight axle monster. I would see these on this train periodically (but never noticed them on any other train). Their destination was the Union Carbide (now Dow Chemical) plant at Prentiss.
I would see these cars again, along with six axle tanks on UP's Angleton Sub south of Houston in the mid 2000's.
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Caption: CN's Brazeau Sub local returns to Edmonton in the early evening. I can't be certain, I but I believe that this train was an out-one-day-and-return-the-next operation. It may be difficult to determine from the resolution of the photo, but that blue tank car, seven cars back, is an eight axle monster. I would see these on this train periodically (but never noticed them on any other train). Their destination was the Union Carbide (now Dow Chemical) plant at Prentiss. I would see these cars again, along with six axle tanks on UP's Angleton Sub south of Houston in the mid 2000's.

Photographer:
Steve Young [781] (more) (contact)
Date: 09/01/1994 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 4702 (search)
Train Symbol: #550 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Bailey/Wainwright Sub (search)
City/Town: Edmonton (search)
Province: Alberta (search)
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2 Comments
  1. Here’s a close up of one of the blue tanks:
    http://freight.railfan.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=raix4313&o=ccbx

  2. Thanks.
    I came across a guy with a web site for these “Whales”.
    I have a few more photos of them. Down in south Texas, they went to one of the chemical plants at Chocolate Bayou (29.240881, -95.205493)

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