I don't think I've gotten this many camera angles for a single catch...

CN put many of their C40-8Ms up for sale, and K&K Recycling bought the majority of the CN and BCOL C40-8Ms that were up for sale, and unfortunately, their intentions for them, is scrapping... Over the past month, CN has been sending the C40-8Ms on train A492 in groups, where they will end up in Sarnia, ON, then Pickering, ON where these massive workhorses that helped pull millions of tons of freight throughout the entire CN system, and even on foreign railroads, will be reduced to nothing, but heaping piles of scrap metal. This is where these locomotive are headed and what's going to happen to them (hence the green S spray painted on the fuel tanks.) It is truly a sad time for many railfans who grew up watching these locomotives.

When I heard that train A492 would have five C40-8Ms in the consist, I could not resist to go to Imlay City to watch these beasts to roll by one last time. I got to Imlay City, took one look on the ATCS monitor, and saw that A492 was leaving Flint yard. We waited and waited, but the signals would not upgrade. We soon got our answer when Q149 came up by complete surprise. About a half hour later, the signal upgraded to clear, and we knew that it was for A492. The train took forever to get to us from Lapeer to Imlay City (only about a 10 mile distance.) After about 45 minutes of waiting, we finally heard the horn, and saw the headlights. Needless to say, this was one of, if not, the best catch of the year, and probably one of the saddest too.

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