Montreal Railfan Day

Lela and I took our daughter to an Anime convention in Montreal last Saturday.  We were there the whole day and hooked uopwith Kevin and Matt for a day of railfanning.  We spent our time in Dorval and Coteau Junction.  Here are some photos of the day

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Via at Dorval.

 Renaissance green paint on this eastbound VIA at Dorval

 This eastbound had the Blue VIA paint at Dorval

Coteau Junction

This local is returning from Kingston to Montreal after completing its switching assignments for the day.  GP9s at the lead.

GE C44-9W Heads this westbound mixed freight from Montreal to Toronto.  In the background you can see the CSX units with empty box cars waiting in the Y after coming up from the South Shore.

 CN SD70M-2 at the south end of the Y.  The power was added to a CN Mainline mixed Freight at the west end that was bound for Montreal.

 The lads had just thrown the turnout to proceed to the east end of Coteau Junction

 Side on shot really shows the detailed of this newly acquired power.

 Backing down the main heading to the west end of the junction

 Ast this was going on.  A CSX consist was switching the transfer yard picking up empties to take to Montreal and destinations North.

I Could only get photos of the train moving away because of the sun angle.  I can show the ones into the sun if you like.  I make them black and white so you can see what is going on.

Here is the eastbound freight leaving the Junction with the new head end power.