In the closing days of October, my good wife participated in one of her periodic online crafting events. That sent me scurrying to the minivan for two reasons: One - to get trackside. Two - to get out of the house so my incessant prattling doesn't distract her from the exacting craftitude going on in her atelier. Check and check!
Publishing pop-up posts profiling previous prolific post-craftstravaganzas has taken the form of including everything seen on each day, combining VIA with CN. This time I take a different approach for the four days' three pop-up posts:
- Pop-up Post One - four days of VIA - you're reading it!
- Pop-up Post Two - four days of CN - coming next
- Pop-up Post Three - four days of freight cars - coming netter
Short on background, long on photos, including numbers and many, many (many!) Ventures, this is Pop-Up Post One...VIA! As has been the case in previous 'four days' posts, our timing was pretty good. In this case, VIA's change-of-card on Day Four resulting in shorter LRC consists, fewer LRC-equipped trains (and only one HEP consist) in this part of the Corridor, and new regular J-trained Ventures with one set (i.e. No 664) entraining/detraining passengers at Montreal/Kingston/Toronto only, with the other concurrently-conjoined set (i.e. No 64) making all scheduled stops. This arrangement is due to the need to replace eight-car LRC sets (with two buffer cars) and also due to the shorter platform length of smaller stations, and represents yet another attempt to appease CN and their minimum axle limits for Venture-equipped trains.
Day One was spent at the Kingston VIA station to maximize number-garnering. A truncated Day Two at Rigney Street, post-pickleball and my semi-annual trip to The Beer Store to return empties. Day Three was at the Townline Road crossing east of Napanee, Mi 193.2 CN Kingston Sub. Each day's trains will be listed by time, direction, train number if known and notes. Trains unphotographed will be so denoted (usually unphotographed due to backlighting, poor positioning on my part or 'just another Venture').
DAY ONE - Friday October 23
1108 WB VIA No 643 - 2300/2201 Set 1 the first to be received and the last to enter revenue service!
1123 EB VIA No 62/52 - 2202/2301 Set 2 and 2214/2314 Set 15 (also - top photo):
1154 WB VIA No 43 - 2304/2205 Set 5:
1240 WB No 45 - 2309/2200 Set 10 no photo
1310 EB No 40 - 2229/2329 with poppy logo Set 30 no photo
1402 WB No 53 - 2322/2222 Set 23 no photo
1437 WB VIA No 47 - 2322/2222 Set 23 (above)
1415 EB VIA No 64 - 904-3302R buffer car-3456-4005-3311R-3333-3370-3316F40(years)-3318-3340-3305R buffer car-907:
DAY TWO - Saturday October 24
1446 EB VIA No 64 - 900-33xx buffer car-3466-4004-3306-3371-3352-3356-3337-33xx-3478-909:
1435 WB VIA No 65/665 - Sets 10 and 30 now operating as a J-train (cab cars together) YouTube link - note Venture-related 'green V' signage:
1526 WB VIA No 47 - 2314/2214 Set 15:
1627 WB VIA No 67 - 903-3472B-3334-3351-3341-3365-4003-3458-3301B:
1600 EB VIA No 644 - 2217/2320 Set 21 no photo
1607 EB VIA No 64 - 907-3305 buffer car-3340-3318-3316F40-3370-3333-3311R-4005-3456-3302R-904
DAY THREE - Sunday October 25
Day three was not spent trackside. I was reassigned to wrangling two grandsons: Lego, soccer, McDonald's PlayPlace and the WalMart toy aisle ($20 budget each) and Hallowe'en candy aisle ($7 budget each)!
DAY FOUR - Monday October 26
0901 EB VIA No 60/50 - 2206/2319 Set 20 with 2206 and 2316/2216 Set 17 (cab cars together) YouTube link
1002 WB VIA No 61 - 2304/2205 Set 5:
1109 WB VIA No 643 on south track - 909-3478B-3353F-3337-3356F-3352F-4004-3466-3323B (note that 3372-3306 were removed since Oct.24):
1220 WB VIA No 63 - 901-5 HEP-6452 facing forward (snuck up on me):
1250 EB VIA No 40 2224/2324 Set 25:
1254 WB VIA No 45 - 2321/2221 Set 22 no photo YouTube link only
1350 EB VIA No 64/664 - Sets 27 and 24 now operating as a J-train YouTube link:
1418 WB VIA No 53 - 2312/2212 Set 13:
1541 EB VIA No 644 - 2205/2304 Set 5. The sun finally broke through the day-long overcast. At one point in the afternoon, I listened to the pat-pat-pat of raindrops on cornstalk-leaves, moving across the cornfield toward me.
Running extra...
CN No 276 Eng 8825-2505 hit a low-boy trailer carrying two structures and a pickup truck at Stoney Point Road, (almost midway between Trenton Jct. and Brighton) at 1130 on Fri. Nov. 6 causing massive disruptions to VIA traffic. Impact video by NT_pfisher showing how to part-out a Peterbilt posted to social media (above) and aftermath from opposite side (below):
Trains (and OTP.) Held at Cobourg: VIA Nos 40(5'), 64/664(5), 644(2'45"); near Trenton Jct: 45(4'30"); at Belleville VIA No 43(5'), 63(4'45"), 643(5'30") and 47(2'30"); at Kingston No 53(3'30"), 65/665(3'15"). No injuries to truck driver or train crew. I was at that crossing in 2015, just at the east end of Lawson Settlement Road. Trains were moving by 1600h - 276's leader with a noticeably bent front handrail:
First past the post...
Well-organized and well-attended. A few drops of rain during, beams of sunshine after. Much missed was Lt.-Col. Bob Chamberlain, the no-nonsense host of this service for 24 years. One humorous moment occurred when he introduced Anglican Bishop George Bruce as "George Bush"! He annually read the following poem, written in Vietnam-era 1970:
It is the Soldier, not the minister who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Soldier, not the reporter who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer who has given us freedom to protest.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier, not the politician who has given us the right to vote.
It is the Soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag who allows the protester to burn the flag.
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