A trio of old warriors rolls through the countryside west of Farnham
The pride of the fleet is the St-Jean night switcher tonight along with 8525.
The plain paint job almost look good with a couple of flashes! Just as the train aproached, rain started pouring on me as evidenced by the droplets visible in front of loco and the wet rails.
Immediately after crossing the Richelieu river, MMA 3609 is flying over the Richelieu road. Notice the special structure supporting the bridge, highlighted by the flashes.
Ex BAR 5800 series built by Berwick in 1972 are now owned by Andersons and are being fixed up and repainted at Derby. This one is in the sandblast getting prepared to be sandblasted
Ex Amtrak 273 has become the test unit for all rebuilt engines for the Poland Project. All engines needing to be rebuilt for the Poland Project are put into 273 and rebuilt in the unit. It saves... (more)
The weapons: an army of Vivitar 283 flashes as the sun has just set and the train is coming. MMA 5078 blasts by the old CP train station with terrific sound and smoke!
One of the workers is cutting bolts so that the truck can be worked on.
Ex BAR is still running as it pushes a spreader heading from SquaPan to Fort Kent.
The BAR name and the car shop will live on. Anderson is having the MMA car shop refurbish and paint all the 5800 series BAR boxcars that were built in 1972.
The magnificient house in the background is called the Christie Manor. To see more, CLICK HERE It was buil... (more)
Crossing over the frozen Chambly canal on the turning bridge. Time for a walk or go fishing on the ice before spring arrives. As we where taking a walk, we heard the train coming. So I let my d... (more)
Train # 2 idles on a beautiful Easter morning
The Newport Turn heads towards Farnham.
Winter weather has been extremely hard on MMA's diesels. Here a worker is adding oil to a repaired gear box on 8592.
