Imagination
If you squint your eyes just a bit, and indulge your imagination, this image could have been one of many taken in the not too distant past, when the SD40-2 ruled the rails in British Columbia. A GMDD powered CP manifest highballing west out of Kamloops, BC, class lights on, Action Red paint spotless, and charging past the stalwart searchlight signals.
Once you relax and your vision corrects, you note the class lights on the locomotive are long gone, the searchlights replaced by LED colour light signals, and the paint on the venerable diesel is faded, and touched up with other hues. The pigeons sitting on the rails know the true nature of this train, a slow switch job, and are in no hurry to have to depart their positions.
CP 5908 running as local job A52 has a block of 40 cars behind it for the pulp mill near Benledi, BC, milepost 3 of the Thompson Subdivision.
Imagination
If you squint your eyes just a bit, and indulge your imagination, this image could have been one of many taken in the not too distant past, when the SD40-2 ruled the rails in British Columbia. A GMDD powered CP manifest highballing west out of Kamloops, BC, class lights on, Action Red paint spotless, and charging past the stalwart searchlight signals.
Once you relax and your vision corrects, you note the class lights on the locomotive are long gone, the searchlights replaced by LED colour light signals, and the paint on the venerable diesel is faded, and touched up with other hues. The pigeons sitting on the rails know the true nature of this train, a slow switch job, and are in no hurry to have to depart their positions.
CP 5908 running as local job A52 has a block of 40 cars behind it for the pulp mill near Benledi, BC, milepost 3 of the Thompson Subdivision.