CN Train Crosses Kettle Creek Bridge
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Yea... we have a wye just outside of town as we're the end of the line at my present town. :-)
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@dnirvine It's because of how they must have switched it around in the yard in London, they probably had no option. There's no wye easily accessible to them in London, so they wouldn't have been able to turn the locomotives around. Now there is a wye in St. Thomas...
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@chrisvazquez7 I am aware of that... I have grown up around trains, but it just seems odd the crew would want to drive the locomotives backwards for that distance of trip. After all, would you want to drive your car on a long trip backwards?
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@dnirvine Locomotives aren't like cars. They have just as much pulling power going backwards or forwards, meaning the way they are facing doesn't really matter.
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ummm, why are the engines going backwards? Can't say I've seen them pulling anything backwards that distance.
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@jay600katana No kidding! BTW, I'm KokkeiMizu on my newer channel. Subscribe to chrisvazquez7 if you like HD videos of St. Thomas and area. :)
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A normal company would fix it because it makes sense. but CN's motto is run it until it theres nothing left then pull up the rails and by railroads in the states. soon they be changing the name to North America National. F^&(*&$ Crappy National
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This bridge sees only 2 trains a day. And it has a 5mph speed restriction, so you have plenty of time to react if a train comes unexpectedly.
5 MPH speed limit???? This track musn't get used alot
LocalRailfan 2 years ago
That bridge sees a train 4 times a day (2 trains crossing it twice)... It's not enough for CN to fix it up. So instead they impose a speed restriction on it.
KokkeiMizu 2 years ago
Nice angle!
saintjohnrailfan 3 years ago
Thanks! I waded through snow up to my knees to get this shot lol
KokkeiMizu 3 years ago