North Country Ribbons
Resilience
Day 3 starts the same way as Day 2 - 421 arriving under the cover of darkness to wait on 112 and 114's arrival. Here the latter rumbles towards Pog East as the hazy sunrise starts to illuminate patches of the higher elevation tree tops.
The resilient patchwork of birch between the train and the rock cut have lost most of their leaves; not to the fall temperatures, but to a relatively small brush fire over the summer. The trees were just retardant enough to withstand the heat and retained the bare minimum of foliage at the top to keep going.
Meanwhile, 114's veteran leader #8612 has been beaten up pretty good over the years and looks a little singed as well. It survives as one of the few remaining un-rebuilt AC4400CWs on CP's roster built back in 2001, yet here it is admirably leading priority traffic from coast to coast on the transcon.
I also like this shot for the swift down the river at left. Swifts in whitewater terminology are classified just below that of a class 1 rapid and this one was fun to navigate in our canoe. Here the river narrows funneling water through the swift creating a strong current and the "miniature" white water.
- MP 19.5 CPKC Nemegos Subdivision.
Resilience
Day 3 starts the same way as Day 2 - 421 arriving under the cover of darkness to wait on 112 and 114's arrival. Here the latter rumbles towards Pog East as the hazy sunrise starts to illuminate patches of the higher elevation tree tops.
The resilient patchwork of birch between the train and the rock cut have lost most of their leaves; not to the fall temperatures, but to a relatively small brush fire over the summer. The trees were just retardant enough to withstand the heat and retained the bare minimum of foliage at the top to keep going.
Meanwhile, 114's veteran leader #8612 has been beaten up pretty good over the years and looks a little singed as well. It survives as one of the few remaining un-rebuilt AC4400CWs on CP's roster built back in 2001, yet here it is admirably leading priority traffic from coast to coast on the transcon.
I also like this shot for the swift down the river at left. Swifts in whitewater terminology are classified just below that of a class 1 rapid and this one was fun to navigate in our canoe. Here the river narrows funneling water through the swift creating a strong current and the "miniature" white water.
- MP 19.5 CPKC Nemegos Subdivision.