Railstream Webcam Highlights, Part 2

CNSU 002 on former well car CN 0002 - westbound December 1

My highlight-reel images from December, 2022, showing Railstream webcam images from Geddes Street level crossing over CN's Kingston Subdivision in Belleville, ON. (All images courtesy Railstream, LLC). It's not as if I observed every train, maybe only 2% of each day's trains. But there were enough oddities plus exceptional locomotives and cars that led me to saving and sharing them in this post and the previous post.

 FURX 5563 on 5-unit CN No 305 from G3 Limoilou to G3 Leader, SK elevator - December 1

A second BMEX unit eastbound early on December 2

Bridge girder on OTTX 132026 westbound  - December 4

Prestige Class Chateau Varennes trailing VIA No 42 - December 5

Blair Manor buffer car on VIA No 52 with CN No 518 on north track - December 8

Former Sask Pool WFRX 850820 westbound - December 8

Bluebonnet IC 2466 with mismatched hood and evaluation car CNIS 412011 - December 11

Blue BC Rail 4648 - December 13

Family Lines CSXT 252389 with five CSX covered hoppers - December 13

Herzog HAGX 1750 trailing CN No 369 - December 13

MPM VII/HZGX 175 trails six well cars 

OTTX 132038 with an RBT (Really Big Thing) also on CN No 369 - December 13

NDYX 857135 with awesome tiger graffiti - December 16

Unconventionally-lettered Drummond Manor VIA No 41 buffer car - December 17

Breeding pair of CNNA map units 2508-2521 (that paint!) on CN No 369 - December 19

EVOX 19050 H202 tank car on CN 668240 train CN No 372 - December 21

Unusual DTTX 885203 'K' Line Rail Bridge 5-pak on CN No 123 - December 22

GATX 00306-00322 for Brockville - December 27

In the aftermath of CN's Christmas Eve derailment 17 TankTrain cars, white GATX 00306-00322 were not set out by CN No 377 in Brockville, instead making it all the way to Toronto, then returning to be finally set out in Brockvegas by CN No 368.

BCOL 4653 leads CN No 322 - December 27

The 'Blue Train' - BCOL 4646 DPU on CN No 322 - December 27

CP 7057 made at least three trips over three days on the Kingston Sub - here trailing three CN units on CN No 377 - December 27

QTTX 131437 one of three westbound girder loads, each with CN idler flat - December 29

Atlanta quadcam surprise - railfan capturing UP 1995 C&NW heritage unit - Jan. 2

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The Golden Globes Awards were the least-viewed but the most-diverse in the history of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association-sponsored awards. I might be the last person in North America watching these shows. They used to be a real event, a viewing highlight. With the advent of TMZ and other 24/7 entertainment programming, awards shows have become soapboxes for issues. David Letterman hosting the Oscars, save us!

We've started our own sofa-borne book club - I'm reading Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman, and my wife is reading Spare by Prince Harry. The latter mentioned his ghostwriter in a TV interview, though I saw no mention of such a writing assistant in the jacket liner notes. I guess he got ghosted!

Crossover event! Posted on my Hanley Spur blog this week - these 1979 and 2023 views of a rare San Luis Central reefer load of potatoes at Quattrocchi's. My thanks to Mark Charlebois for making this possible.  Layout-level photography revealed the need for missing details I later added: right-hand dimensional data and weathering.

Railstream Webcam Highlights, Part 1

NOKL 550001 with the 'Julius Pringle' - October 28

My highlight-reel images from the very end of October and November, 2022, showing Railstream webcam images from Geddes Street level crossing (actually anything but level when driving over it!) over CN's Kingston Subdivision in Belleville, ON. (All images courtesy Railstream, LLC.) It's not as if I observed every train, maybe only 2% of November's trains. But there were enough oddities, plus exceptional cars and engines that led me to saving and sharing them in this post. The number of trespassers using the mainline as a sidewalk is pretty alarming. Usually dark clothing, head down, between the rails, against the current of traffic, carrying a skateboard, perhaps even earbuds in!

BCOL 6148- November 1

DWC 558571 - November 1

UP 465301 - November 1

TPCX 190630 with two GFL trash-haulers WB - November 5

12 CSXT/HKRX/MWNX flood-loaded coal hoppers EB - November 7

NS 9768 with 4 units EB - November 7

New UP 700276 - November 8

ACFX 48644 on ITTX 974277 - November 9

QNSL 410-407 WB - November 9

CNIS 412011 inspection car - November 10

Several cars of  'pipes' on No 305 - November 13

VIA 6443-6445L from No 2 trailing No 42 - November 13

NOKL 360321 - November 16

Refurbished diner Frontenac and coach 8101 trailing No 63 - November 16

CN (EJ&E Heritage unit) 3023 leads WB intermodal - November 19

Meet in front of the camera - November 21

CN 3950 leads former Deathstar IC 1037 on No 372 - November 22

VIA 8517-8137 trailing No 42 - November 22

Quadcam surprise - Virginian heritage unit 1069 on Atlanta cam - November 23

Mid-Iowa Corp. covered hopper - November 25

Combination-door CN 598140 with rare small 'CN' - November 26

Rio Tinto BMEX 522 on CN No 306 - November 28

 In Part 2, we see what December brought!

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Huge wow factor. Sailor, book customer and Legomaster Gilles Lessard has created an amazing 'Coke-can' covered hopper made of Lego. I had to look twice. Then I had to look twice more. See Gilles' amazing creative talent! Gilles kindly sent some links: a massive event in Germany; a Lego gathering in Chicago' and a real black beauty!

My Lego technical ability began with the seemingly prehistoric Shell tank truck and fire truck! Gilles kindly added...It is mostly called L-gauge (lego gauge) and most people build to the scale of around 1:48, or 8-wide, referring to 8 studs being 10 feet. The Lego minifigure isn't the most anatomically accurate thing therefore people play with the scale to something that feels right and not necessarily 100% to scale.

Another CP Wayfreight on Kingston's Hanley Spur in HO Scale

I've titled this post 'Another' because nearly four years ago,  I chronicled a quite different CP roadswitcher job covering the same territory. That run was made early in the life of the Hanley Spur iteration of my layout. Four years later, I've added structures, scenery and much more. Let's follow a CP S-3 6516 that has come to Kingston from Smiths Falls via Tichborne to serve some of  CP's customers. The CP agent has driven over to talk to the crew (top photo) then it's Gus Marker Cement to drop off a load:

Just down the line is the string of modern (well, 1950's) warehouses along Railway Street. Weldwood Lumber meets the wall at an angle, just leaving room for a short car spot:

MacCosham Van Lines is just across Railway Street, today receiving two loads of household effects from a family moving in from New England, apparently. The parallel warehouses are all trailing point switches:

Weston's Bakeries has an inbound load of flour:

A bit of joint trackage with CN serves Presland iron & Steel, just north of CN's Outer Station. These covered script gondolas were frequently seen along the two southernmost miles of CP's Kingston Subdivision in Kingston:

Isaac Cohen's rambling scrapyard is intermittently fenced. An outbound load of scrap is getting lifted by CP 6516:

Ready to pull the load out through the scrapyard and up to Railway Street:

Skirting the Great Cataraqui River and now serving the farthest-south CP customer at Place d'Armes, Anglin Coal. Tiptoeing up the inclined track to the coal unloading shed:

Just prior to heading back north, Dyeco on Orchard Street gets switched, as a local citizen looks on from the River Street bridge:

The crew's wooden van crosses Cataraqui Street:

Coal hoppers, scrap loads, and old ice reefers represent commodities that do not bode well for the future viability of the shippers or the line:

No cars for C.E. MacPherson today, so it's time to head north to Tichborne, having switched several customers this trip, and several more pending on the next trip to town.

Heading north through the Railway Street warehouse district:

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Haven't blogged since last year! Hoping your 2023 is great so far. After all the holiday (and derailment!) posting, Trackside Treasure will be resuming its normal week-end (or weekend) posting schedule, closing in on 800 published post in this blog's 13-year history!

New Year's Eve programming was a pastiche of Nashville's Big Bash country music on CBS, New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC, United in Song on PBS, and Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton and sober Anderson Cooper. Today's usual Rose Parade must have run into scheduling conflicts with the Sunday morning political programs and NFL - it will air on New Year's Day +1! On this actual New year's Day, it's the London New Year's Day Parade on PBS!

Gustatory highlights: cranberry with no berries, orange juice with extra pulp, no snow, and a rotisserie chicken sale-abration of 662 barbecued birds at Costco, with 324 sold by 1030.