On March 30th, 2022, I caught some fast and cool trains on the CN Sprague sub!
I got word that two of CN's Heritage units, 3008 and 3115 were coming up to Winnipeg on the Sprague Sub. 3008 was trailing on an oil train and 3115 was leading a manifest. I got up early...but not early enough for the IC unit. 3008 had passed me about 15 minutes before I even got up, lol.
I went out anyways as 3115 on train 340 was still on it's way through the wilderness of northeast Minnesota and southeast Manitoba. I waited around and saw a headlight coming.
This was a super fast CN 781 heading into the city with a surprise leading! up front was CSX AC4400CW number 86! It ripped past me at 60mph with CN ES44AC's 3892 and class leader 2900 trailing. It even had some SCL/L&N 'Family Lines' and CHESSIE SYSTEM hoppers!
Next train (in the video at least) was actually the last catch of the day. After an hour or two of waiting, M340 finally came speeding through with CN 3115 in the lead and SD75I 5650 as well as ET44AC 3252 trailing.
3115 is CN's British Columbia Railway heritage unit. It's painted in their mid to late 80's 'hockey stick' red-white-blue scheme. It looks fantastic, 3115 hands down is the BEST looking CN heritage unit on their roster...well, maybe next to E9A 102 (before it got the big noodle logo)
The next two trains were shot chronologically after CSX 86 on 781. Next up was a pretty fast Eastbound Q100 series Intermodal with ET44AC 3268 leading and ET44 3139 trailing mid train.
And last was a super fast westbound Q100 series intermodal with ES44DC 2301 and it's great K3L horn leading and ES44AC 3800 in the middle. This train was pretty empty, half of it was all empty well cars, lol.
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