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Along the Restigouche
Carefully negotiating the double "S" curves located at Sellarsville, four SFG RS18-3 have 37 cars tucked on their drawbars, rolling by the Restigouche river, only four miles out of Matapedia.
Nobody knows for sure how long that kind of show will last, but despite an eventual motive power change on the SFG, the scenery will fortunately remain the same.
SFG was to me, my second railroad family. I made really good friends there over the years, endured winter, summer and fall conditions, watching these special breed of railroaders operating 65 years old engine over a difficult piece of track for a railroad who was basically dead on paper only 10 years ago.
I made eight 20-hours drive round-trip to photograph almost every possible accessible locations over the Cascapedia subdivision, asked by SFG's officials for pictures used in company publications, Christmas cards for employees and customers, magazine articles for railroad promotion, website and more.
Going there still give me the thrills, the shortline thrills.
The railroad thrills. Something sadly I can now barely feel in my 17 years railroading for Canadian National.
Waiting deep in the forest, at the far end of a four miles long backroad, coffee in hand, frost on the ties, hearing ALCo prime movers miles before actually the train itself, anticipating the picture or simply soaking in that mood while hearing locomotive engineer made throttle modulation and purely Canadian K3 horn echoing all over the place, like if three or four trains are coming my way.
That's truly a therapy. A railroading one but still a therapy to me.
Mr. Benson had his Sierra Railroad. I got mine too.
And I'm really glad to be part of it at least one time a year since 2016.
SFG 565-05
1868 1819 1821 1865
Milepost 4.3 Cascapedia subdivision
Sellarsville,QC
October 5th 2023
Along the Restigouche
Carefully negotiating the double "S" curves located at Sellarsville, four SFG RS18-3 have 37 cars tucked on their drawbars, rolling by the Restigouche river, only four miles out of Matapedia.
Nobody knows for sure how long that kind of show will last, but despite an eventual motive power change on the SFG, the scenery will fortunately remain the same.
SFG was to me, my second railroad family. I made really good friends there over the years, endured winter, summer and fall conditions, watching these special breed of railroaders operating 65 years old engine over a difficult piece of track for a railroad who was basically dead on paper only 10 years ago.
I made eight 20-hours drive round-trip to photograph almost every possible accessible locations over the Cascapedia subdivision, asked by SFG's officials for pictures used in company publications, Christmas cards for employees and customers, magazine articles for railroad promotion, website and more.
Going there still give me the thrills, the shortline thrills.
The railroad thrills. Something sadly I can now barely feel in my 17 years railroading for Canadian National.
Waiting deep in the forest, at the far end of a four miles long backroad, coffee in hand, frost on the ties, hearing ALCo prime movers miles before actually the train itself, anticipating the picture or simply soaking in that mood while hearing locomotive engineer made throttle modulation and purely Canadian K3 horn echoing all over the place, like if three or four trains are coming my way.
That's truly a therapy. A railroading one but still a therapy to me.
Mr. Benson had his Sierra Railroad. I got mine too.
And I'm really glad to be part of it at least one time a year since 2016.
SFG 565-05
1868 1819 1821 1865
Milepost 4.3 Cascapedia subdivision
Sellarsville,QC
October 5th 2023