Thanksgiving is just another day on the railroad, Amtrak 75 pulls out of Capital Yard to get ready to back into Raleigh Union Station to pick up some last minute travelers.
The "City of Durham" RNCX 1869 brings up the rear of train 75 as they pull into Cary.
Piedmont 74, the first east/northbound train of the day, departs Cary with a pair of F59PH's bracketing 5 coaches.
Amtrak 77 proceeds south into Cary with one of the two NCDOT F59PHIs leading. Note the NS milepost 74. NS leases Main 2 here from the North Carolina Railroad, while CSX controls operations on it a... (more)
RNCX 1871, the "Town of Cary", trails train 75 into its namesake municipality.
An EXO deadhead and VIA 22 are going in opposite directions, with the former being powered by an F59PH, the latter by an F40.
F59PHs GO 560 & GO 563 lead GO 3710 towards its terminus of Union Station. GO 3710 originates in London, the only train to originate that far west. This train launched as a pilot program in Octobe... (more)
The last train of the morning from Mascouche is reflected in the Peel Basin.
A Piedmont train departs Cary after servicing the station here, most of the remaining passengers are awaiting the east/northbound Carolinian.
The stainless Multi-Level cars of EXO 1206 from Mascouche to Montreal Central Station are gleaming in the sun of a late October morning crossing the alignment of the former CN Deux-Montagnes line,... (more)
AMT 1344 leads a deadhead move past Wellington Tower, now mostly obscured by the right of way for the REM light rail line.
EXO 1209 has the usual Masouche line consist of an F59PH and three multilevel cars as it approaches Turcot Ouest.
A doubleheader leads a 3-car Mascouche train past the Peel Basin as it deaheads away from Central Station.
The construction of the REM, on CN's former Deux-Montagnes line, is making progress while AMT 1345 pushes a three-car commuter train on the Mascouche service towards Montreal's Central Station.
Extra cars and power, as well as in service trainsets are in EXO's Pointe-Saint-Charles Maintenance Centre.
