15 Comments

1. BradKetchen

   November 22, 2019 at 6:51 am

   Now.. it’s a wonder not more power for that grade!
2. mile27

   November 22, 2019 at 7:06 am

   Very nice, Stephen.
3. awmooney

   November 22, 2019 at 8:19 am

   Wow!! No trucks, no ships (to speak of)..I don’t think I have ever seen it that wide open down there. Great image!
4. BradKetchen

   November 22, 2019 at 8:42 am

   ‘Salt’ water on the left. Fresh on the right.
5. Stephen C. Host

   November 22, 2019 at 6:19 pm

   Glad yall like it. It was a challenge to drop family off at beach to get to this shot on time.. but I was lucky as usual.

   Thanks to a friend who corrected me: The grade does vary over the length of the hill but tops out in a section at 2.83 percent.

   There are a couple sections around that grade and smaller subgrades but its not uniform by any means. Takes a skilled hogger to pull a good train up the hill and gexr hoggers get a ton of experience here.
6. JoeDurocher

   November 23, 2019 at 2:42 pm

   Love a shot like this where there is so much to see beyond the train.
7. Kevin Flood

   November 23, 2019 at 3:15 pm

   Beautiful image Steve. At first glance, it looks like it was taken in the tropics it’s so colourful (basically the opposite of winter!)
8. Stephen C. Host

   November 23, 2019 at 6:38 pm

   Thank you – it was a gorgeous day so we spent the day on the beach at Goderich after camping at Auburn the night before. I’m glad GEXR runs on weekends now or I would have no train photos
9. Stephen C. Host

   November 29, 2019 at 5:19 pm

   Arnold do you recall how the CPR crossed the CNR at this location? at grade?
10. awmooney

    November 29, 2019 at 5:43 pm

    I don’t Steve. I can only suggest accessing a topographical map that a University might have in their library.
11. awmooney

    November 29, 2019 at 6:01 pm

    My own Topo map Is inconclusive as the area covered cuts right across the top of Goderich; but it “suggests” the CN & CP interchanged in that yard area behind the elevators. The map shows at least 3 tracks back in there.
12. awmooney

    November 29, 2019 at 6:05 pm

    Nope. Must have been at grade. I just cannot remember it.
13. David Young

    December 17, 2019 at 5:47 pm

    Steve, CP crossed above the CN. CP tracks continued to their small yard where the tracks looped around by the beach and lead to the interchange behind the grain elevators. So Arnold, you were right!
14. Stephen C. Host

    December 17, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    Thank you Dave!
15. Stephen C. Host

    July 19, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    CP tracks would have been right below me (at bottom of the grade of course)