C44-9W Galore! - Late-Night Railfanning at Stewwartown - October 4/2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

C44-9W Galore! - Late-Night Railfanning at Stewwartown - October 4/2025

Railfanning at night is much different than doing so in daytime, whether its at a railroad crossing provided by streetlighting (if not use your vehicle's high beams for better production) or a station which also is provided by its own lights. On the first weekend of October I took a late-night trip to Stewwartown to snatch a few CN eastbounds, mostly specifically with 2 oncoming easts having endangered C44-9Ws for power as most recently Wabtec rebuilt 25 more Dash9s near the end of the summer. I was hoping M396 would be featured in the session which had two NBSR GP31ECO-M rebuilds, but ran into 2 major delays along the journey, first being held at Port Huron for CN A485 to build its train & cross the tunnel, and then having to wait at Hardy for 45 minutes to let CN L501 fully clear the Hagersville Subdivision. 6 trains in total for the evening party starting with CN Z148's interesting horn from its lead unit, A434 with the uncommon Dash9 2500s class & Q122 following up with an IC Dash9 duo thriving the mid-way point of the session, E271 with a "thundercab" leader/IC Dash9 2706, then after an hour M382 rolled by with SD75I rebuild 8307 on point, and finally concluding the fun was 382's counterpart M383 heading the opposite direction with 3 GEVOs in a 2x1 formation handling this enormous beast. That evening I teamed up with ‪@theclarksonrailfan2521‬ 0:00 - CN Z148 (133 cars, 472 axles) (1 inspection boxcar, 73 wells, 59 autoracks) 3:08 - CN A434 (108 cars, 444 axles) 6:31 - CN Q122 (125 cars, 452 axles) (51 wells, 74 autoracks) 10:07 - CN E271 (69 autoracks, 288 axles) 11:57 - CN M382 (147 cars, 600 axles) 14:24 - CN M383 (183 cars, 750 axles) Thanks for Watching!