Lyon Valley Northern

This site is designed to promote the hobby of ferroequinology. It also provides an opportunity to show the development of the "Lyon Valley Northern": an HO railroad featuring CN and BNSF action in the West. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or comments at cnlyon@sympatico.ca

My Photo
Name:
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Retired

Sunday, January 13, 2008

What a difference

Was off to Merickville to get my Chopper II from Larkspur Lines. Then Lela and I drove over to Smith Falls to do some railfanning. Since the last visit the snow was gone and it was much warmer.
The first action we saw was this pair of Geeps sorting out some tank cars in the yard.

The weathering shows years of hard work on these units.

Then the VIA from Ottawa graced us with her presence. Nice to catch it between these target signals on the west end throat.

Next was an Ottawa Valley Train with CPR AC4400s on the lead arrived.. Hey the lead unit is the "Holiday Train" and its a container train. The OVR train entered through the yard tracks at the same time.




In this shot you can see the clips which are perminantly attached with screws for the Christmas lights



Here are the OVR units. They are backing onto some lifts in the yard.





The Holiday train is leaving. They just completed the crew change and she is bound for Toronto.




Meanwhile, the OVR has reconnected to it's train and will be heading out as soon as she gets the signal.






Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Happy New Year