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Throttling up
Rolling northbound on a frigid winter morning, CN 368 locomotive engineer had just made the transition from dynamic braking to power after clearing the hills in background and hoping to gain some momentum before the next one, less than half a mile away. A lenghtly cut of cars loaded with sulphuric acid from from the Canadian Electrolytic Zinc plant in Valleyfield,QC trail the head-end and will for sure harm his train-handling skills over this tortuous and ruthless 160-mile long territory.
M36831-26
2321 2419 IC2717 5625 5765
Milepost 23.2 Lac St-Jean subdivision
Lac-aux-Sables,QC
January 27, 2013.
Throttling up
Rolling northbound on a frigid winter morning, CN 368 locomotive engineer had just made the transition from dynamic braking to power after clearing the hills in background and hoping to gain some momentum before the next one, less than half a mile away. A lenghtly cut of cars loaded with sulphuric acid from from the Canadian Electrolytic Zinc plant in Valleyfield,QC trail the head-end and will for sure harm his train-handling skills over this tortuous and ruthless 160-mile long territory.
M36831-26
2321 2419 IC2717 5625 5765
Milepost 23.2 Lac St-Jean subdivision
Lac-aux-Sables,QC
January 27, 2013.