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the cars are interchanged with cn.
Nice capture Terry….you never know how long production of these things will last and 1859 grinding up the escarpment is a nice feature
Very nice Terry, and informative as well. Looking at the end of the coil car next to 1859, you can see the car number 400077, being the 77th car in the NSC order of 315. Assuming the trailing coil cars might be higher numbers, it appears there are well over 200 cars still to be fitted with a cover at Steelcon – should last well into 2023, John
i posted this as a comment on facebook a while back on someone’s shot of a westbound on the dundas featuring these new coils.
Quite the little journey those coils take
- lifted from nsc in Hamilton by the cn 0700 yard job. No hoods on them yet
- lifted in stuart by 555 and taken to aldershot
- continue to mac on 570
- to port rob on 421
- taken to trillium at feeder by 562
- trillium takes them to trenergy in st catharines where hoods are put on
- lifted by trillium and returned to feeder
- taken by 562 back to Port rob
- to mac on 422
- west on whatever train this is
Jamie, thanks for the explanation. Was under the impression that CP was picking the coil cars up in Hamilton and taking them (ex-TH&B) to Welland. This CN routing is certainly lengthy, time consuming trip for these coil cars to travel from NSC Hamilton to Steelcon in St Catharines. Don’t really understand why CN Grimsby Sub way freight doesn’t pick them up at Stuart and take them east on the Grimsby to Merritton and back them into GIO/TRR ex-NS&T former Grantham Sub lead track for pick up by GIO, a move that could be made in one day, John
Thanks for your comments and the information about the car routing. The rust will definitely be off those new wheel sets. The trailing car in the consist is NKLX00098. Back in October I took some photos of L570 on the Halton Sub. with a new NS 162414 coil car, part of a string of new NSC built coil cars (without lids) heading to MacYard.
No point in stopping a usually massive train at Merritton just to set off or lift a couple of cars when Trillium can just do it. The entire process might take longer but in the end they’re all ending up at the same place. Steelcon is currently the only industry keeping trillium going to St Catharines these days anyways. Kemira rarely receives cars and Dunn paper hasn’t received a car in over a month now, so who knows what the future for Trillium to St Catharines will look like after the coils are done.
Not only that, back when CN and Trillium interchanged in merriton it would have been a local train
I asked the question what used to do the work in the 90s here
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=50749
Today there is no local profiled to work trillium in Merriton
Today if there was it would be 581 (previously 551 in 2020) or 562 that would be the most likely candidates. There are union rules at play here too.
562 lifted a dimensional from Merriton in the past several years.
August 18, 2020 was the date of the above move I referenced.
Nice – so it’s indeed possible.
A string of the new NS coil cars were involved in a NS derailment in Van Buren Township outside Detroit, Michigan on February 16 2023. Aerial photos of the site show the coil cars off the rails and leaning toward the ditch, behind a couple of hoppers that are accordioned across both tracks, the coil cars look to have escaped major damage, they should be easy to rerail. One of the car numbers is NKLX 400040.
How many are part of NS order? The NS coils are up to number 550.
I counted eleven coil cars in a aerial view, the five derailed coil cars are NKLX Series. The NSC emblem is visible on the car body.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/02/16/train-derailed-van-buren-township-haggerty-road-closed/69910784007/