Having spent a week watching trains on the Mountain Sub some questions and
comments arise. So in no particular order, here goes.
1. I noticed that a lot of trains were instructed to stop in Golden for
refueling. Why? Aren't the units serviced and/or changed at Alyth? Or
does this have something to do with fuel usage going over the mountains?
2. The steam vegetation train was in the yard at Revelstoke. Consisted of
CP301623, CP422000, CP400901, CP400900, CP415500, CP421322 and CP415501.
Are they going to be trying it out in the mountains?
3. Between trains, I noticed an awful lot of Canadian Pacific containers
being transported by truck on the TCH. Has the company ever made an effort
to get this traffic back on the rail? I would assume that most of the
traffic I saw was not for local delivery.
4. Who cleaned the grain cars? On this trip I could actually read most of
the reporting marks on these cars. Two years they were absolutely filthy.
