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Caption: This pair of locomotives east of Port Coquitlam diesel shop match the new four-letter railway company id.
CP 8763 is a GE ES44AC, while KCSM 4092 is an SD70ACe assembled at Bombardier-Concarril in Sahagun Mexico.
Seems like all KCS units I saw here on my 2 visits, 2 weeks apart, were KCS de Mexico.
The sidewalk on the west side of the Coast Meridian overpass provides this safe public viewpoint.
Drawback is the bridge's full-height end-to-end horizontal/vertical rigid steel mesh - the just-under 2 inch square holes are too small for many camera lenses, especially when angling downward, left or right.
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So that begs the question, how did you do it? My lens definitely couldn’t fit.
that CP unit is begging for a repaint!
When a small-mesh fence stands between me and a scene of interest, I have 2 options. For fences up to 8 feet tall, my 2 step folding step- ladder. Otherwise I use a high-quality zoom lens autofocus compact camera. Mine has a Carl Zeiss lens, with outside diameter 1.5 inches, offset to its left side. For angles well to the left, holding this camera upside down works best.
CP 8763 and many others would look a lot better with more frequent washes. But that would make a lot of dirty water.
Coincidentally, on my previous visit 17 days earlier CP 8763 was sitting near here, on the leftmost track closer to the turntable and the bridge.
I only managed shots really zoomed in, up to max. Anything less I got the fence in. The fencing on the sides of bridges is a real pain in the Vancouver area. This is not an issue in Ontario, at least not yet.