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Franquet
With the previous day's L580 unable to pull all their assigned tonnage out of Franquet, an extra crew running as W933 was called in Senneterre for 0800.
Plan of the day; running light engine to Franquet, pull the loaded ballast cars stored there, double over the L580 cars and run south towards Quévillon where an engineering department team will meet them for some ballast dropping along the southern part of the line.
After a few moves, marshalling the train in the right sequence and having the power wyed in Franquet wye, W933 slowly pulled off the Matagami subdivision into the Chapais subdivision with the section house still in place, complete with CNR's iconic wood station name sign on it.
We were very glad catching this move on our trip, train 581-580 only running two days a week here and mostly at night, this was a huge bonus for us over this seldom used remote line.
CN W93321-14
9450 9418
Milepost 72.1 Chapais subdivision
Franquet,QC
September 14th 2017
Franquet
With the previous day's L580 unable to pull all their assigned tonnage out of Franquet, an extra crew running as W933 was called in Senneterre for 0800.
Plan of the day; running light engine to Franquet, pull the loaded ballast cars stored there, double over the L580 cars and run south towards Quévillon where an engineering department team will meet them for some ballast dropping along the southern part of the line.
After a few moves, marshalling the train in the right sequence and having the power wyed in Franquet wye, W933 slowly pulled off the Matagami subdivision into the Chapais subdivision with the section house still in place, complete with CNR's iconic wood station name sign on it.
We were very glad catching this move on our trip, train 581-580 only running two days a week here and mostly at night, this was a huge bonus for us over this seldom used remote line.
CN W93321-14
9450 9418
Milepost 72.1 Chapais subdivision
Franquet,QC
September 14th 2017