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Images: These pictures are not censored for quality. What one person considers a bad or useless picture may be exactly what someone else is looking for. I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.
Videos: These videos are very big, which is why railfanning videos are so rare on line. As long as Windows Media Player says "Connecting" it is working, even it if appears to be taking a very long time. It says "Connecting" until it has finished downloading the video. Please be patient. If you are unable to play these videos with Windows Media player, a problem which exists with some versions of Media Player and (sometimes) with Internet Explorer versions lower than 6, I strongly recommend the use of Quicktime if it is available. If you are using Linux, mplayer needs to be told that the videos have a bit depth of 16 (-bpp 16) to work.
Filenames refer to location, date (dd.mm.yy), and camera-assigned four digit id number.
Top photos from December, 2009
| December 30th, 2009 | I went to Terrebonne to meet local railfans Sam and J-F. They took me on an excellent adventure along the CN Lac-St-Jean subdivision to chase CN 369 with DPU south back to Shawinigan and catch VIA 601 with ex-GO units. We caught both of those and CN L522 in Shawinigan, finding out only after returning to Terrebonne about a wind turbine train on the QGRY that we silently passed in Trois-Rivières. Excellent, if extremely cold, day over all. The time between shots and videos was mostly taken up warming the camera batteries so they would have enough strength for the next set of shots, not always succeeding as the video camera frequently gave up from the cold -18C + windchill chase. | |
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| Hervey Junction, Quebec | (map) Hervey Junction is the connection of the CN Lac St Jean and CN La Tuque subdivisins north-east of Garneau Yard and Shawinigan. | |
| 42 images | 2 videos | Marks: CGKX CGLX CN RBRX SHPX VIA |
| Lac-aux-Sables, Quebec | (map) Lac-aux-Sables is just east of Hervey Junction on the CN Lac St Jean subdivision. | |
| 15 images | 1 videos | Marks: AOK ATW CGLX CN CNLX DWC GATX |
| Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, Quebec | (map) Notre-Dame-de-Montauban is just east of Lac-aux-Sables and Hervey Junction on the CN Lac St Jean subdivsion. | |
| 12 images | 1 videos | Marks: ATW CGLX CN CNLX ICG PROX SHPX WC |
| Rivière-à-Pierre, Quebec | (map) Rivière-à-Pierre is north-east of Hervey Junction on the CN Lac St Jean subdivision. | |
| 60 images | 1 videos | Marks: ATW CGLX CN CNLX DWC ICG |
| Shawinigan, Quebec | (map) Shawinigan and Grand-Mère are the site of CN Garneau Yard which is the junction of the CN Joliette and CN Lac St Jean subdivisions as well as several large aluminium and paper facilities. | |
| 15 images | No videos | Marks: CGLX CN CNA DWC GTW ICG PRL TBOX |
| Ste-Thècle, Quebec | (map) Ste-Thècle is the first siding west of Hervey Junction on the CN Lac St Jean subdivison. | |
| 8 images | 1 videos | Marks: CN CNA RBRX VIA |