Canadians on a ballast train on the CNO&TP

[Gage O'Dell]

On Thursday afternoon and Friday night, the CNO&TP was visited by some rare Canadians that otherwise are lucky to still be around. A CP SD9043MAC, just recently reactivated by CP, led the Thursday edition of the ballast train. While a BCRail C44-9WL, only 1 of 3 still left in this paint, led Friday night. On Thursday, it left Lexington Yard around 1130 as a 90Z and went straight to Somerset and tied down for the day. I chased it from the 107.9 intermediates near Burgin all the way to Bowen, which really isn't that far.

Friday night was a surprise, it went south around lunch time, but only went to Oneida where it wyed the engines and headed back north. Around 9pm I got a text from a friend that told me it was in Danville. I just got to the yard in time to get one decent shot off before it left. I think it's more luck than being that good

Below are the pictures from the last few days, be sure to follow me on Flickr>>https://www.flickr.com/photos/46459752@N08/

NS 90Z flies down single track as it approaches the 107.9 signals near Burgin


NS 90Z rides a slow order past North Wye as it heads for Danville


After waiting for traffic to clear, NS 90Z diverges onto single track as it passes by the new signals at Bowen




NS 927 and BCRail 4643 depart Danville Yard Friday night

[NSMoWandS]

Nice catches! Seems everytime a full cowl(or any for that matter) BC unit comes down CSX Philly Sub... it is middle of night.  :'(
DE Dan

[thpbears]

Saw my first Canadian on a NS auto rack through Bristol last weekend. Saw two on a CSX coal train a while back. Something a little different.