CN Rock Train

IC 6010 pulls a rock train through Silver Lake, Wisconsin on CN's Waukesha Subdivision.

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[lordbemylight]

Horn activates the crossings! LOL! Sure hope Silver Lake still allows the horn.

[Brenton81]

@lordbemylight It's actually just a coincidence that the signals activated right as the engineer sounded the horn. The crossing gates are triggerd through the rails. As far as I know, Silver Lake is still not a quiet zone.

[lordbemylight]

@Brenton81 I'm glad! I hope that's the day when cow's fly. After all, CN already ruined Burlington, Mukwonago, and everywhere in the IL region.

[Brenton81]

@lordbemylight CN isn't responsible for quiet zones, it's the community the railroad passes through that is. They request it, then often times have to pay for upgrades to the crossings so they meet the requirements needed for a quiet zone. The railroads prefer to have engineers blow the horn.

[lordbemylight]

This train has its yard just outside of Grayslake, which is my town. Does anyone happen to know where from Grayslake it travels to?

[Brenton81]

It heads up to a quarry just south of Sussex, Wisconsin.

[FlyBikes089]

Sweeet video!

[JeremiahTrane]

Good ol U700 Rock Job :).....The good ol days.....

[starguard]

They must have all been empties

[freshmansuck17]

@highmountainflyer those are gravel cars

[RochelleXing]

Wow those hopper cars are taller than the engine!

[highmountainflyer]

thats a lot of ore cars!

[GenoTex]

@Brenton81

I'm the engineer on that job.

[synthfreakify]

Cool! Those yellow cars look like the ones made especially for CN's Great Slave Lake Division in the early '60s. I was wondering where they went. I used to see strings of them at Roma Jct., Alberta carrying concentrated lead pellets from the Pine Point mine to a smelter at Trail, BC. They're all-welded, the trucks are roller-bearing, and they're rated at 100 tons. 4 special GP-9's on that line had ATO (Automatic Train Operation) equipment, all went well until a big derailment in 1968.

[kabukikitsune]

Those are old converted ore jennies. Couldn't tell from looking, but most of them still have friction bearings. (They never leave RR property and are restricted to certain speeds.)