TheQuietStormKing
Strange Days
The 2017-2018 franc sand boom brought some bizarre consists to the CN, if it had reasonably round wheels and could create reactive effort we ran it. This July afternoon in 2018 found quite the dogs breakfast of power for another sand train to Eola. That Soo sd60 made several rounds through the system that summer, even led a train or two of I recall, sadly I wasn’t on any of them nor was I in any position to shoot them but I do know it happened. In fact a few weeks later I would tie down a sand train in Eola next to that same Soo 60 that led a sand lord the night before. I don’t know why I didn’t snap a picture of that one. I did get to run this one however, albeit with the wrong leader... The sand boom went bust by 2019 with fracking operations in Oklahoma and Texas utilizing inferior but abundant and cheap local sand, some blame the CN’s inability to move the product in a timely fashion for that shift. It was fun while it lasted however! Today we still run a good bit of sand on the CN, it all goes north to Canada these days. We run them in pairs, S773-S771, occasionally doubling them up at the border to create 30k ton monsters.
Strange Days
The 2017-2018 franc sand boom brought some bizarre consists to the CN, if it had reasonably round wheels and could create reactive effort we ran it. This July afternoon in 2018 found quite the dogs breakfast of power for another sand train to Eola. That Soo sd60 made several rounds through the system that summer, even led a train or two of I recall, sadly I wasn’t on any of them nor was I in any position to shoot them but I do know it happened. In fact a few weeks later I would tie down a sand train in Eola next to that same Soo 60 that led a sand lord the night before. I don’t know why I didn’t snap a picture of that one. I did get to run this one however, albeit with the wrong leader... The sand boom went bust by 2019 with fracking operations in Oklahoma and Texas utilizing inferior but abundant and cheap local sand, some blame the CN’s inability to move the product in a timely fashion for that shift. It was fun while it lasted however! Today we still run a good bit of sand on the CN, it all goes north to Canada these days. We run them in pairs, S773-S771, occasionally doubling them up at the border to create 30k ton monsters.