Pop-up Post: Four Days in September 2025, Freight Cars

Coke can CN(WX) 111289 on CN No 368

In my four fore-posted Four Days in September pop-up posts I profiled the prolific plethora of passenger and freight trains I observed along CN's Kingston Sub over those four days in late September. Since I'm a  freight car fan, I'm always watchful for the interesting ones - in what are becoming increasingly boring single-commodity freight trains or manifest freights comprising lease-fleet cars. I had some success. The cars I dug are shown in this post; minimally-captioned and shown in chronological order, with the train number listed for the first on each train.

 DAY ONE

Ex-CN patched-out HIPX 388342 

NKLX (ex-CN) 200716

Mobil Grain MGLX 396860 (ex-CWB/CNWX) and...

...MGLX 625065 (ex-SKPX)

Banana-yellow UP 700847, 700185 and 700877 were on this train

White Maersk refrigerated boxes on CN No 149

Black IARX 43573, 43559 and many other covered gons on CN No 372

'Patchwork quilt' rearranged panels WRWK 9032 on CN No 271

HESR 54003 2024-built Huron Eastern covered hopper on CN No 305

DAY TWO

AITX 100003 low-numbered 2020-built American Industrial Transport on CN No 368

Patchwork quilt panels PW 306019 on CN No 271

More new HESR covered hoppers HESR 54022-54012 on CN No 305

Plain-jane (wasn't always) CITX 151623 Canpotex covered hopper on CN No 730

DAY THREE

BNSF 722605 with small logos on CN No 372

MWTX 112602 MET/'POORBOY' tank car

BLE 66103 and CC 40132 scrap-tie cars on CN No 368

Colourful graffiti TTGX 160791 on CN No 271

Patchwork quilt panels on TTGX 851908

NYKE graffiti on TTGX 159990

DAY FOUR

RMRI bathtub scrap gondolas 2320, 2327, 2310 on CN No 322

Clean VTGX 562014 on CN No 369

Pink! HWCX 7993 

Aged CMBX 101165 Compass Capital/Combined Metal Ind. bathtub scrap gondola

AOKX 44129 wheel flat load on CN No 305

Heavy equipment dimensional load on HTTX 93367

CBFX CIT Group consecutive covered hoppers 316415-316416

This concludes my four-days trackside-trolling trek spent in some salubrious September weather!

First past the post...

Thanks to some other trackside observers who continue to continually contribute to my cornucopic  compendium of VIA Venture in-service Set sightings: Michael Judge, Terry Walsh, Taylor in Stratford, Railfan Luc, Doug Bardeau, and on the HEP2 side, Matt Soknacki for contributing cars numbers stored at VIA's TMC.

Running extra...

Each post in the Four Days in September series ended solely with 'First Past the Post' - my perennially positive post-post postscript. The usual 'Running extra' section did not blend beneficially with the pop-up posts. But it is back!

Check out the VIAdeography on YouTube. VIA's 'Slow TV' series is too saturated and too slow for my attention span, though perhaps not yours. VIA is slowly screening the 'Behind the Scenes Of The Canadian' series that focuses on the people. Perhaps you will recommend a familiar face, as I did!

WTF*? Speaking of film subjects, one day in Hollywood three superheroes were discussing upcoming film roles in their Lives of the Great Composers project. Steven Seagal menaced, "I'll be portraying Brahms". Jean-Claude Van Damme sneered, "I'll be playing Beethoven". Arnold Schwarzenegger slowly said, "I'll be Baaaaach". 

(*What The Fugue?)

Of many hilarious comedy bits, David Letterman's stint as the Taco Bell drive-thru order-taker has to be one of the best.