Ride The Rails With Benny Plant

It has been a year or so since I have posted something, wow. I have just been busy lately and the website hasn’t been a top priority. Not much is new, doing some railfanning off and on, I hope to have some new videos up soon. I will post a video of the CN 545 that I caught back in the summer. It was pretty cool.

I haven’t posted an msts video yet so I thought I would. I should have some real train vids up by the end of the weekend.

Yes I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted something and I’m sorry for that, I have been busy. I hope everyone is enjoying there holidays and had a nice Christmas. I will have some more railfanning stuff up shortly. I will have some vids and a few pics up this weekend, most likely Sunday. I haven’t done much lately, so this will be the first time in a couple weeks. Nothings new on the Newmarket sub, the CN local hasn’t been around, haven’t heard it in months and it may stay that way. On that topic, I will post a few vids of the Newmarket Sub in MSTS(Microsoft Train Simulator) form as MLT released a GTA route that covers 8 subdivisions in the GTA area. Anyway thats about it for now.

Take Care,

Benny

Sorry i haven’t made any posts in a while, I have been lacking as you can see. I have been working lots this summer so I didn’t have a much time as i did before. It was a good summer overall, did some good railfanning, worked, went to the cottage for a week which was good, didn’t see any trains though. The best experience this year was on August 30th because there was lots of action going on at around 6, there was train 106, 450, 114, 451. Got to talk to engineer on CN 450 which was cool. Sadly I only got two trains on camera as the battery was low. Heres the link to the video http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=m4iIIAWKdQA

Anyhow school starts on Wednesday Sept 3rd and I’m not really looking forward to it, but hopefully it will be ok

Thats all for now,

Cya!

On Saturday morning I was laying in bed and heard a train horn around 9:30 am. I was sure came from the Barrie Line. I was a bit confused at first because I know there is no weekend service as of now. I was thinking that perhaps one of the trains had some mechanical problems and therefore had to go down back to Toronto for repairs. Then about half and hour later I heard another train! Well now I was even more confused. After a while I figured they were doing crew training since CN crews are finished as of June 30.

Again on Sunday the same thing happened but there was more trains this time and all day. I think there were about 6 or 7. I happened to catch one going south while on a bike ride. That was pretty cool because I haven’t watched a southbound train before. Looked like there was only one guy in the cab though.

I really hope that the trains keep running on weekends until June so I can get some good videos since I haven’t filmed the Go train in a while.

Sorry for the lack of posts of late. I thought I would write about this event since there hasn’t been one for a while.

See ya

Last year at this time things were much drier and a little warmer. This year it’s a different story. Pine Orchard for example is as mentioned …… “a mudbowl” and the north wind howls through there too. Even though it’s cold, the sun heats up the mud but the wind makes for cold spectating. I guess this is the in between season. Trying to see something without getting muddy while having good sight lines is a challenge. This season we look forward to finding new places to watch and video. We tried a few CP crossings in the fall last year but not much success. Sparrow Lake was great. Easy access and a safe place to park the car. Hopefully we can go there again next year. CN and CP cross somewhere near Mactier so with any luck we can get up there too. This between season stuff makes it seem like a long time before we can sit somewhere and enjoy the whole experience. On top of that our main computer is in the shop for repairs. That means no Microsoft Train Simulator for a while. Bummer.

See ya

Sorry we have not been around in a while. We have been busy with other things like school, hockey and walking my old lab Bumper. Anyway, it’s winter time and Ontario is running short on fruits and vegetables so CN 545 should be coming a couple times a week to drop off the reefers in Bradford. I have not heard the train in quite some time now but thats because I’m always in bed when it comes. Anyhow, thats about it for now so stick around, there’s more to come.

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If you look carefully at the picture (click on it to see it full size) to the left, you will see an older Bradford Station sign from CN days gone by. Originally called Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Union Railroad, it opened for travel all the way from Toronto on June 13, 1853. The Aurora Station had just opened on January 7, 1853. Look closer and you will see to distance mileage on either side of the word “Bradford”. Toronto 42 miles and North Bay 186 miles. Then see the Bradford GO sign on the light pole. Talk about the old and the new! Not sure when North Bay opened up but it must have been a while after Bradford. I think it’s great that they kept the old sign

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