Adrian Wintle Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Here are a few pictures from April: First, a random encounter at a level crossing on the CP main line north of Toronto (edit: just realized where this was taken - just north of the intermodal yard). Then a couple of shots from the lead into the CP intermodal yard at Hwy50 and Rutherford Road, north west of Toronto. Shot at the Huntingdon Road level crossing. The train spent a lot of time blocking the crossing as it positioned cars in the yard. I took lots of photos of containers and well cars that I won't inflict on you here. Note the perfect backscene cloud. This sequence is at my favourite bridge, just east of Bond Head, Ontario. I had stopped for gas and seen a slow eastbound intermodal on the CP line, so I hastened to the bridge to see if I could catch part of it. When I got there, I found it looped in the siding, blocking the road, with a westbound intermodal passing it on the main (behind the stopped train): Then a westbound CN freight appeared. The CP intermodal showed no signs of leaving. The second loco on the CN was an ex-SOO CEFX leaser (sorry about the quality) I took photos of most of the train for load ideas - here are a sample of the more interesting ones. Then the reason the CP intermodal wasn't moving appeared - it was being passed by another eastbound. In the CN freight was the first example I have seen of the new Kato N-scale autoracks. Here is CP, comprehensively blocking the level crossing. I took a fair number more photos of the well cars as the train slowly moved off, but again, I won't inflict them on you (yet). And, on another day, here is proof that CN and CP occasionally cooperate. This is a westbound empty oil train on the CP main. The covered hopper is the barrier car. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share Posted June 2, 2014 Here are some of the cars being pushed into the yard: And a fairly rare set - a drawbar 3-set of 48' wells (only two shown) And an overview of the train Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share Posted June 2, 2014 And here are some of the more interesting loads from the bridge. This one has a rare 48' container (branded for Sears, a major department store chain) A 40' single well car, probably cut down from a 48' one A 40' on top of a 53'... ...and vice-versa 53' refrigerated containers A 5-set of 40' wells with (almost) the maximum dimensional load - 40' containers with 53' ones on the top of wells A, B, and D. If all the 40' containers were high-cube it would have been at the max And the end of the train. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Thanks, Adrian. some good stuff there. CN and CP may rarely cooperate but CN has the far more beautiful livery............. Some of the container shots would be appreciated in the Intermodal section (covers all countries). Brest, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share Posted June 2, 2014 Thanks, Adrian. some good stuff there. CN and CP may rarely cooperate but CN has the far more beautiful livery............. Some of the container shots would be appreciated in the Intermodal section (covers all countries). I was in two minds as to whether to start a new thread there for the container shots. I still have lots more.. As a note, the 5-set of 40' wells is probably a cut-down Maxi-III (5x48' wells).. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Clark Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Got any sharable images of 20 foot reefer intermodal containers? Phil Clark, Catarman, Philippines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share Posted June 2, 2014 Got any sharable images of 20 foot reefer intermodal containers? Phil Clark, Catarman, Philippines. I don't think so - they aren't that common. I can keep an eye out - there is a lot of intermodal truck traffic near work and my usual route home* takes me past the CP intermodal yard and the various container yards nearby. *at least until the end of construction season when the shortest and most efficient route home becomes useable again. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted June 3, 2014 Author Share Posted June 3, 2014 And now a few from the same bridge, but in March. I had passed under a very slow moving intermodal as I left Port Hope, ON. I waited on it at the bridge and it eventually arrived, coming to a stop under the bridge. Apparently the second unit had dropped out, so it was being held to pass a couple of trains. The train arrives And stops Leaving an interesting car under the bridge - an early Gunderson Twin-Stack bulkhead set A look back along the train The car immediately behind the Twin-Stack was also interesting - an all-purpose car with fifth-wheel connections for road trailers Some detail Then the westbound VIA service passed by - A P42 with LRC coaches It looks like it was a set of all-purpose cars Then an eastbound passed, with an interesting collection of motive power: CN SD60F, BNSF C44-9W, BNSF SD70ACe And lots of shiny new tankers full of Bakken crude Then I had a look at the motive power a C44-9W and a dead SD70I Signs of life The lead cars They left the door open And away it creeps Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Clark Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Cheers Adrian. I've been wondering about the arrangements for electric power. Am researching banana transport that uses 20' intermodal containers. The bananas are shipped 'hard-green', kept cool (13.3 C) in transit (7-28 days) for several weeks, then ripened to yellow at destination. Electric power is either a 'clip-on', or rail-car gen-set, or dock side generator, or shipboard power. Here's a few images, maybe you'll see something similar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted June 3, 2014 Author Share Posted June 3, 2014 I have occasionally seen a genset container in a train, but I don't have a photo. They seem to be on a 40' platform like the one in your second photo on the right. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Clark Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Maybe you'll see some on your next trip. Here's a few more images: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Clark Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Adrian,I'll give you some background. My interest in intermodal is because here in the middle of Philippines there are no trains. All I see are 20 foot dry containers for the inter island inter-modal domestic traffic. There are many small ships taking containers, on/off loaded to ship by onboard crane, on/off loaded to truck by a large forklift. The big straddle cranes are 750+ km NW in Manila (Subic bay) on Luzon. Subic bay has no rail access and the Philippine Railways offer no flat-car container transport . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Clark Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Adrian, my modelling interest is early inter-modal (late 1960s) out to Key West Fla on SAL flat cars. Most likely I'll modify some PRR flat cars. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted June 5, 2014 Author Share Posted June 5, 2014 Phil; The vast majority of containers we see are 40s and 53s. With the exception of very dense cargo we don't see many 20s. I'd guess that refrigerated 20s aren't efficient to ship and are only used where you need to split the cargo into smaller loads to allow for more rudimentary transport and handling facilities (smaller ships, onboard cranes, forklift handling as in your photos). In North America that would be handled by splitting the load into road trailers at a distribution facility and forwarding the smaller volumes by road. All the distribution yards around the CP intermodal yard (primarily open spaces of gravel where the containers are stacked) have the ability to handle any size of container and have a few container handlers (Kalmar, Piggy-Packer, or forklift-style top lifter) each. This one has two Piggy-Packers https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ll=43.819821,-79.676274&spn=0.000015,0.009602&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=43.819847,-79.67615&panoid=4cZ03QpDNPuacCndirz2JQ&cbp=12,172.98,,0,2.11 This one has a couple of Kalmars (one is hiding in there) https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ll=43.819844,-79.676145&spn=0.000015,0.009602&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=43.819902,-79.675899&panoid=Zpa2dvScJxAkDf3RmgBK1w&cbp=12,1.13,,0,12.27 and this one has forklift-style top lifters (although they are hiding behind the building) https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ll=43.820935,-79.671146&spn=0.000015,0.009602&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=43.821006,-79.670802&panoid=cb4X1YzLvW8ayOu9Wk3uiA&cbp=12,354.85,,0,11.61 And a little virtual trainspotting, just down the road: https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ll=43.822267,-79.649969&spn=0.000004,0.002401&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=43.822267,-79.649969&panoid=0kcxIHgrqMNxfLBgAne-TA&cbp=12,9.84,,0,-1.81 Adrian Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Phil - I have some 20' reefer images:http://ukrailwaypics.smugmug.com/The-Humble-Box/TheHumbleBox-Type/20-Containers/22R1#!/ Adrian - great catch on the 48' - two other nice ones in the first group of pics are the open top Hapag Lloyd 40', and the brand new Hapag Lloyd one (bigger logo) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted June 5, 2014 Author Share Posted June 5, 2014 Phil - I have some 20' reefer images: http://ukrailwaypics.smugmug.com/The-Humble-Box/TheHumbleBox-Type/20-Containers/22R1#!/ Adrian - great catch on the 48' - two other nice ones in the first group of pics are the open top Hapag Lloyd 40', and the brand new Hapag Lloyd one (bigger logo) I had't realized there was an open-top one in there, but I see it now. There was actually a second Sears 48' container in that train, but I didn't think it was necessary to show both pictures. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 One of them is in the background of your shot of the Kato style autorack as well, I was going to mention it as being unusual, but you had already! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Clark Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 NSE - thank you, good inspiration for weathering. Adrian - I never see anything bigger than a 20 footer around here. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Tremendous cloudscape in that Google link! Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Saw these in a (truck-served) intermodal yard near work. 40' power units. In a train you typically see one of these by itself in a well (no stacking). Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 On my way back from Kingston this weekend I took a detour off the highway to see if I could find a few trains. On my way down Newtonville road (1 exit east of the bridge I frequently shoot at) I passed over the lead cars of a westbound CN freight, and then had to wait for the end of it to pass at the level crossing just east of the bridge, so it was gone by the time I got there. I later passed it waiting for the single track bridge over Hwy 401 and got to see all of it as it passed George's Trains. I walked over to get some shots of the track maintenance equipment that CP had parked there This meant I was out of position when an eastbound CN freight appeared, but it was going slowly (see below) so I got a few pictures, including some of the more interesting cars. The head end Depressed-centre flat A ratty Alberta grain hopper A three-dome modern tank car Ex-coal gons Rail on flatcars The DPU Lots of covered hoppers A weathering exercise The train was travelling slowly because it was stopping just up the line so that this could get past (running wrong line) Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 The MOW equipment was a tamper-liner and ballast regulator. The first raises and lines the track, then tamps ballast under the ties. It deploys a buggy a dozen yards or so ahead of it then uses lasers to measure curvature, crosslevel and line. The regulator plows ballast up onto the tracks (or off of it) and shapes the ballast section, then has big rotary brooms that sweep off the tracks. Both are very noisy and dusty operations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 I was in Kingston, Ontario a couple of weeks ago (visiting parents), and I saw a freight approaching as I crossed the tracks at the station, so I stopped to wait for it. It was coming quite slowly. The gates then came down, but not for the freight. A westbound VIA train was arriving with 916 on the point The lead coach was a refurbished LRC Business car. A mix of blue and green lower panels in the rest of the train. The gates went back up, but the freight was still coming. The gates went down again as the freight finally arrived. Led by C44-9W 2684 with ES44AC 2834 as the second unit. Part of the train and an overview of the station. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 A contribution from me, following an enquiry on RMweb and a very kind offer to host me for the day chasing OSR trains. After a look round the Salford shops, we caught OSR 1401/6508 (two ex-VIA, ex-CN FP9As) as they picked up 14 assorted cars from various spurs and then switched the CAMI Toyota factory to pick up 40 auto racks. The 54 car train, over a quarter mile long is passing Ingersoll, Ontario, and the Fs are apparently in daily use at present. Thanks to OSR expert Walter, for taking us to some great photo locations. CHRIS LEIGH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davknigh Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Just a sidebar to the last posting. OSR 6508 is undergoing a face lift and will be re-painted in OSR maroon and cream according to this recent post on Railpictures.ca. http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=19383 It will be interesting to see how she turns out. Cheers, David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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