CN GP40-2W no. 9523 is teamed up with GP38-2 no. 4795 on duty as the Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher, picking up empty grain cars at Ardent Mills on Montreal's Lachine Canal bank.
The Pointe St-Charles Switcher has left Taschereau Yard with two new units and is heading back east. CN 9523 will be picked up by CN 527 later that day to be left at Taschereau Yard and CN 4809 an... (more)
The ice in Montreal's Old Port is breaking up now in the first days of spring, while a trio of GPs is in charge of the (almost) daily transfer from the port to Pointe-Saint-Charles yard. Behind le... (more)
CN 9523 & CN 9416 are shoving CN 500 into the Port of Montreal.
Picking up empties from Ardent Mills on the Canal Bank spur involves shoving them back to the Pointe-Saint-Charles yard, and that is what this pair of CN geeps is about to do. They would return so... (more)
CN's Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher, CN's nos. 4795 and 9523, is picking up empty grain hoppers from Ardent Mills on the Canal Bank Spur on a Monday in early February.
Service to Ardent Mills, last rail client on Montral's Lachine Canal bank, is a fragile business, constantly threatened to be handed over to the rubber-tired competition. At a time when service wa... (more)
CN 9523 shows off its faded nose as it leads a short transfer out of the Port of Montreal.
With the crossing of Charlevoix street secured, CN 500 returns from Ardent Mills with a cut of grain empties on CN's Canal Bank spur, heading to the Montreal sub mainline to push back to Pointe-Sa... (more)
CN 9523 has an incredibly faded nose as it leads a short train of baretables out of the Port of Montreal.
Lifting empty grain cars from the last remaining active client on the banks of Lachine Canal in Montreal, a par of weathered CN GP38-2's slowly passes Atwater Market on a sunny February-morning.
CN 9523 & CN 4795 lead a transfer out of the Port of Montreal.
CN 9523 is leading a transfer out of the Port of Montreal. At top left is the iconic Farine Five Roses sign.
CN 9523 & CN 4795 are leading a short train of baretables into the Port of Montreal.
Faded CN 9523 is passing in between sections of grain elevator #5 as it prepares to lift cars.
