CN South Bend Sub and other GTW finds
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:52 pm
On July 2, I spent most of the day along the CN South Bend Subdivision in the Vicksburg-Schoolcraft area, here's a summary!
I arrived a little past 9AM near Indian Lake looking for yellow cat eye crossbucks at private crossings - there used to be some along this section but all have been removed (and hopefully adorn a railroad museum or track maintainer garage and not a landfill somewhere!). I was immediately met by a westbound mixed freight behind 3 CN units on the south track. In typical CN fashion, they met an eastbound mixed freight just west of Vicksburg behind 3 or 4 CN units on the north track, which I didn't have a chance to set up for.
My goal had been to get a photo of the headend of a train passing the historic union depot in Vicksburg where the GR&I/PRR once crossed the Grand Trunk mainline. Unfortunately, having just missed the eastbound, I didn't end up getting the shot I wanted. In the meantime, while waiting for the next train to come, I walked around the building and three pieces of rolling stock parked on the short section of former GR&I which remains just to the north of the GT.
I arrived a little past 9AM near Indian Lake looking for yellow cat eye crossbucks at private crossings - there used to be some along this section but all have been removed (and hopefully adorn a railroad museum or track maintainer garage and not a landfill somewhere!). I was immediately met by a westbound mixed freight behind 3 CN units on the south track. In typical CN fashion, they met an eastbound mixed freight just west of Vicksburg behind 3 or 4 CN units on the north track, which I didn't have a chance to set up for.
My goal had been to get a photo of the headend of a train passing the historic union depot in Vicksburg where the GR&I/PRR once crossed the Grand Trunk mainline. Unfortunately, having just missed the eastbound, I didn't end up getting the shot I wanted. In the meantime, while waiting for the next train to come, I walked around the building and three pieces of rolling stock parked on the short section of former GR&I which remains just to the north of the GT.