Pop-up Post:CN Nos 368/369, August 2016

CN 8868 leads through a forest of lineside poles and hydro wires

The first of what may be more...Pop-up Post! Some photos I took that are presented with a minimum of interpretation, detail, research, formatting or reflection...Trackside Treasure instant gratification, as it were. Enjoy the passage of CN trains No 368 and 369 an hour apart this morning just east of Mi 179 Kingston Sub, from five storeys up. Let the story begin:

CN 8868

SRCX 4096 carbon car

SRCX 3052 carbon car

CN 388408

Colourfully-tagged CNA 404471

Westlake Polymers WLPX 26049

Empty scrap gon AIMX 15208

AIMX 15252

ACFX 51120 OMYA covered hopper

CN 388619 with different reporting marks font

DPU IC 2714. Chris, I See you're paying attention!

WC boxcar having a graffiti-bedecked 'year/jahr'

ICG 978727 empty bulkhead flat car

CN predecessor scrap tie gon loads ICG 295074 and CC 245047

HPJX predecessor! CN 618228 ingot flat car

The future! HPJX 52357

No 369 power 2878-2677

WWUX 4750-4405

BN 462031

BN 461246 with large BN logo

SLSF 86617 no coonskin in sight

 A symphony of swooshes

A concert of centre-beams

CNIS 368251 repaint with ingots following

Long and lumbering CN 598285-598162

DPU 2821

Ingots aboard CN 618102

I used to be CN...Interstate Commodities INTX 38011

Covered today, gon tomorrow MWCX 200463-200509 and friends

Predecessor scrap tie hopper empties: WC, BLE and SSAM

Chciago Central 40218

Ex-BN WC 33062 and IC 365324

The Creature! or It Came From the Hump Yard!