With cash from returning empties in hand thence a brief stop at Tims, bagel and brew in hand, I headed to Collins Bay for a few minutes before my next stop. This pop-up post will show the passage of usually nocturnal Southwark-Toronto CN No 321 at 1115. But first, coffee in hand but not cellphone, I roundly botched the shot of 'doublavay' (Venture J-train VIA No 62/52 with sets 14/16) at 1059. With two sets and 48 axles, this double-Venture is able to skirt CN's imposed crossing speed reductions and arrive more-or-less in time, once split at Brockville, at Ottawa if not Montreal - 11 and 29 minutes late, respectively.
Let's call it the 'X' train because almost every car - mostly tanks, gons and covered hoppers - are leased. CN 3278 slowly hauls 321 into view from out of the undergrowth:
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| ex-Citirail CN 2760 |
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| Looking like Milwaukee Road CN 116416, 116410 |
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| Patched and re-patched former BAEX boxcars. |
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| Carbon black car ECQX 4820 |
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| AOKX covered gons 43501, 43511, 43561 |
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| 321/322 are always gon-heavy like ITFX 44313 |
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| Four digited IC 3814 |
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| EAGX 61168, TILX 110272, 112650, 111779 placarded UN 3264 and 1760 |
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| Likely ferric chloride for water treatment, hence the brown belts |
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| Hastily-stencilled tank car CBTX 716262, likely with train-bit not dil-bit inside |
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| On to Belleville and a crew change |
