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Vésanie, j’arrive...
Descendre dans la vésanie,
Tout doucement à petits pas,
Dans ma cervelle en trépas,
De ce monde en litanie…
Mon âme noire comme la nuit,
Sans lune et sans chant d’oiseau,
Se déchire tel un lambeau,
Qui se lambine dans l’ennui.
Je n’ai peur de toucher le fond,
Les limbes seront mon repos,
Où mon cœur sera sans écho,
Donnant pitance au griffon.
Tant que je suis loin des hommes...
Tant que je suis solitaire...
Ma folie est mon Jupiter,
Qui guide ma raison d’opium.
Michaël Overberg
CP 7018 and KCS 4813 are the head end power of CPKC loaded grain train G390 bound for Cuautitlan, while CP 8761 was the rear DPU. The train was tied down for the night at the territorial limit (KCSM/FTVM) due to a small stretch of linea A being OOS, as soon as we were arriving at Huehuetoca we heard the dispatcher give 7018 south authorization to enter via Morelos and continue south so a quick U turn had to be done and we got set at the Morelos-44.
This, sadly, was my one and done catch of it as early morning traffic jam made it impossible to chase it farther south, oh well!
This is also the first CPKC train I shoot after the merger, not a bad start eh.
Huehuetoca, EdoMex
Sprinters 7018, 7007, and 7004 work their way into Wandong, bound for Southern Cross as #8314.
Wandong, Vic.
23/1/21
Sunlight and a Heritage leader climbing Orr's Lake Hill new Cambridge, Ontario. CP's heritage fleet has been one of the great attractions to railroading in Canada; harkening back to the 1950's and what sure now feel like better simpler times. For a few moments, you can escape. 8766 trails. This one, I would have liked to chase for a while as it worked Ayr, and then continued on to London and Windsor.
Almost identical to a shot I took in late 2021, a much dirtier 7018 leads CPKC empty grain train G387 through Eureka on UP's Houston Sub.
Replacement of the remaining searchlights in the Houston terminal has accelerated in early 2024, as these SP relics were removed in late March as part of a larger reconfiguration of the junction here. Just beyond the signal bridge, the Eureka Sub splits off to the northwest, while the Houston Sub makes a sharp turn southward.
The 2021 view: www.flickr.com/photos/159410734@N04/51678305960/
I usually don’t shoot power sitting in yards but the golden hour sun was too much to give up. Two Freshly Washed and Maintained SD70ACU’s sitting at the north end of Welland Yard after coming back from American Motive Power in Dansville New York, awaiting lift from 237 back to Toronto.