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Portage la Prairie is one of the best places to railfan on the Prairies, as that's where the CN & CP mainlines meet, not to mention CP's & CN's Prarie North Lines. The town itself doesn't generate much traffic however, thus there's only one unit on duty - a GP38-2, ussually CP 3106...
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BNSF 3412 on the lead of the BNSF's 3rd La Mirada local coming back from retreiving empty box cars from a customer in Placentia on the Kimberly Industrial Lead.
Caught him on a Portage la Prairie local on June 6th, 2005 in a very intersting consist:
CP 3106 (GP38-2 aka town switcher)
two 60' Simplot reefers
one Procor tanker, white colored
and this amazing caboose, all boarded up!
I've seen the local a couple times before, but never with a...
Two SOO SD60s lead a CP SD40-2 B unit on a grain train off the PNL. To compare, todays 344 has an AC4400CW leading and trailing in DPU mode yuck! Sadly all these engines are off roster now:
SOO 6014 - off long-term lease, to CIT Group (CEFX lessor) in 2006
SOO 6009 off long-term lease, to...
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Power move on the eastbound grain train. The units were: CN 9508, CN 9468, CN 9543 (all GP40-2L(W)'s), CN 4795 (GP38-2(W)), CN 7224 (GP9RM) and CN 271 (S-3 slug).
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A view from Grand Dad's Bluff in La Crosse, Wi of a BNSF train as it travels north. It is approaching the Grand Crossing, and then the BNSF yard, where he will be doing a lot of work.
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