Springtime at the Station, March 2019

Day One of my new life phase/lifestyle found me starting off in a good place on March 27 - at Kingston's VIA station. Mixing pleasure with pleasure - a visit to Panera Bread then trackside. Arriving from the east was VIA No 63 Eng 6445-3464-3321Renaissance-3362R at 1147: 

Heading over toward Division Street, a stop at Lappan's Lane revealed some interesting cars at KIMCO Steel, one of CN's last two Kingston customers. MTBX 004 and 009 are Metrobec scrap gons for loading, mired behind the Utilities Kingston storage yard. The entire KIMCO property is fenced, unlike the CN-operated team track days!

BTCX 613 is also mired - it's an 89-foot Browner Turnout Co. flat car being relieved of its load of I-beams by a KIMCO crew:

Down at the end of Rigney Street/CN Queens East, a westbound CN freight - likely CN No 369 - emerged from under the Division Street overpass. Lone CN 3150 was in charge, adorned with the Aboriginal nose logo.

Wheel-y interesting loads. I reinvented my interest in wheel cars as CN 48955:

and CN 618061, a former ingot flat car

Speaking of ingots, HPJX 52360-52234 were carrying aluminum ingots:

DPU 2943:

Then it was VIA's turn, with VIA No 45 powered by Eng 920 Forty Years-wrapped and six cars at 1238 (video capture):

Next stop, Kingston station - where this post started out!

Running extra...

As promised, the first pension cheque was direct-deposited on April 1! I've come across some humourous memes that seemed relevant:

 

The next day, it was off to the big city. Watch for an upcoming post on my TTC-riding adventure: