Nice shot. Those cars on the headend are acutally loaded phosphate cars from North Vancouver which arrives by boat from Morocco. G834 typically brings the cars east which head to Beamer, AB for unloading.
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Aha, thanks Tim! Teach me to make assumptions. Those loads might explain why he was worried about stalling up the grade at Spuzzum.
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No worries, Owen. Typically they have a good string of 40-50 of them on the headend of G834, but then the rest is grain empties. The train you shot on this day (G83451-05) had 45 phosphate loads and 87 grain empties. They used to run the phosphate loads as their own train (U728 east and U727 west) but I haven't seen that for many years.
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