Like Nothing Else On The Rails
Unfortunately I didn't make it out to see this fabulous and unique train this year so here's a look back to last year. This is another frame from this wonderful spot, the last on our two day chase, that highlights how the train constantly changes color. In the one I posted before the locomotive is highlighted in red and here it is blue imparting a totally different look and feel. Anyway, here's what I wrote last year.
This was the last spot from my two days out chasing the famous CPKC Holiday Train for my first time earlier in December. After our last shot of them passing Charter Marsh in golden evening light they tucked in the siding at Ticonderoga for a couple hours to await a meet with southbound Amtrak train 68, the Adirondack from Montreal.
They are enroute to their second of four shows in the village of Port Henry as the roll north at about MP 115 on modern day CPKC's Canadian Mainline, the former Delaware and Hudson Railway. Leading the way is CP 2249 an EMD GP20C-ECO built in 2013. This is a model unique to the CP (they own 130 of them) which are prevalent system wide in yard and local operations. The entire 12 car train is visible here as it snakes along the edge of Lake Champlain whose cold water reflects the light in a brilliant palette of shimering color. This was a fabulous way to wrap up two great days with a train that is truly like no other....well excepting its twin American consist that is!
To learn more about CPKC's Holiday Train and see some of this year's performers as well as learn about its mission raising money and awareness to combat food insecurity check out the company's site dedicated to this continent wide event:
www.cpkcr.com/en/community/HolidayTrain
Port Henry
Town of Moriah, New York
Friday November 24, 2023
Like Nothing Else On The Rails
Unfortunately I didn't make it out to see this fabulous and unique train this year so here's a look back to last year. This is another frame from this wonderful spot, the last on our two day chase, that highlights how the train constantly changes color. In the one I posted before the locomotive is highlighted in red and here it is blue imparting a totally different look and feel. Anyway, here's what I wrote last year.
This was the last spot from my two days out chasing the famous CPKC Holiday Train for my first time earlier in December. After our last shot of them passing Charter Marsh in golden evening light they tucked in the siding at Ticonderoga for a couple hours to await a meet with southbound Amtrak train 68, the Adirondack from Montreal.
They are enroute to their second of four shows in the village of Port Henry as the roll north at about MP 115 on modern day CPKC's Canadian Mainline, the former Delaware and Hudson Railway. Leading the way is CP 2249 an EMD GP20C-ECO built in 2013. This is a model unique to the CP (they own 130 of them) which are prevalent system wide in yard and local operations. The entire 12 car train is visible here as it snakes along the edge of Lake Champlain whose cold water reflects the light in a brilliant palette of shimering color. This was a fabulous way to wrap up two great days with a train that is truly like no other....well excepting its twin American consist that is!
To learn more about CPKC's Holiday Train and see some of this year's performers as well as learn about its mission raising money and awareness to combat food insecurity check out the company's site dedicated to this continent wide event:
www.cpkcr.com/en/community/HolidayTrain
Port Henry
Town of Moriah, New York
Friday November 24, 2023