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Viewing Album:  Agawa Canyon Fall Colors - October 9, 2015
 
By:Neil Barratt
Dates:10/3/2015 - 10/31/2015
Album Info:We boarded the train before sunrise for the 8 AM departure from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Gotta feel sorry for the folks who bought tickets for the day before - cold, dark, windy, raining - But for my wife and I, on Friday, October 9, nothing but sunshine and blue skies - despite a very short, light rain in the late afternoon. As the train moves past one colorful vista after another, you have a fraction of a second to visualize a shot, aim your camera, adjust for light and horizon, and snap. Fortunately the windows on the train were pretty clean. These pics are just of the Agawa Canyon tour train locomotives, and trains seen along the way. Paste this link for the pics from the train of some really fine fall colors. https://www.flickr.com/photos/24354869@N07/sets/72157659602535400 Shots are in chronological order, so you can ride along and watch the sun rise, with the early morning shadows, and frost on the leaves, through the morning and afternoon, with the last shot about 5 PM.
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DESX 55
Title:  DESX 55
Description:  First train after our departure is this fine ESSAR Steel EMD switcher, hard at work at 0800. Not entirely sure, but it's either an SW8, SW600 or an SW900
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:41:42 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Track,Action
Locomotives:  DESX 55(SW900)
Views:  421   Comments: 0
CN 106
Title:  CN 106
Description:  We were in the first passenger car behind 3 locomotives. Here the bend is so tight, I was able to get a pic of the front loco from my window.
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:41:46 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CN 106(F40PHR)
Views:  354   Comments: 1
CN 106
Title:  CN 106
Description:  At the Agawa Canyon, the train stops for about an hour, and the locos circle around to the rear for the trip back to Sault Ste. Marie.
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:41:48 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  CN 106(F40PHR)
Views:  422   Comments: 1
CN 106
Title:  CN 106
Description:  Ready to depart for the home journey.
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:41:51 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  CN 106(F40PHR) CN 4796(GP38-2W) CN 105(F40PHR)
Views:  718   Comments: 1
CN 4725
Title:  CN 4725
Description:  Banged up switcher at the ESSAR Steel yard.
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:41:54 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard,Track,Action
Locomotives:  CN 4725(GP38-2)
Views:  187   Comments: 1
AC 10105
Title:  AC 10105
Description:  Waiting for the snow to fall...
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:41:57 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  162   Comments: 0
AC 9609
Title:  AC 9609
Description:  Another relic. I suppose that this caboose once earned its keep on the Agawa Canyon train, and now serves as a workmate to the Snow Plow it's coupled to.
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:42:00 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  288   Comments: 0
HS 61385
Title:  HS 61385
Description:  The train attendant saw me having trouble trying to get pics out of the back window of the passenger car, so threw the door open for me as we cruised through the ESSAR Steel yard not far from our final destination at the SSM rail station.
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:42:04 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Yard,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  148   Comments: 0
CN 106
Title:  CN 106
Description:  Back at the station after our fantastic fall colors tour, it's time for some roster shots of today's CN power trio. In the lead, CN 106.
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:42:08 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CN 106(F40PHR)
Views:  542   Comments: 0
CN 105
Title:  CN 105
Description:  Trailing locomotive.
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:42:11 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CN 105(F40PHR)
Views:  524   Comments: 0
CN 4796
Title:  CN 4796
Description:  Sandwiched between two Agawa Canyon F40PH's. Added power required on this trip - at one of the busiest times of the year.
Photo Date:  10/9/2015  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 6:42:14 PM
Location:  Sault Ste Marie, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CN 4796(GP38-2W)
Views:  395   Comments: 2

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