Escuminac

Having done seven 20 hours-round trip down Gaspésie's Baie des Chaleurs area in order to photograph the fascinating operations of the Société du Chemin de Fer de la Gaspésie, this February 2018 trip turned quite sour giving only five keepers on a 70 miles chase mainly due to the inclement weather, locomotive issues, a well too dark leader on a snowy background along with disturbed railroad operation due to a non-working CN winter plan.

 

One of the best accessible location along the Cascapedia subdivision was for westbound trains passing thru Escuminac. The combined grade fighted by ALCo 251 prime mover and 35MPH track speed gives a real taste of Gaspésie railroading.

Here, train 565 is working uphill under a lucky patch of sun, rolling about 3300 feet of 89-foot flat cars loaded with windmill blade, built by LM Windpower of Gaspé,QC.

 

SFG 565

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Milepost 24.1 Cascapedia subdivision

Escuminac,QC

February 24 th 2018

Done