Skeena Pacific

A snowy landscape has overtaken the falling leaves, and the trains keep rumbling on. I'm out here to document some more. This is an eastbound, empty grain train. The trackside defect scanner at Mile 90.0 reports 598 axles. With 18 axles for the locomotives, I'll leave the maths to you. The action is caught just west of the Squilax-Turtle Valley Road grade crossing at Mile 87.2 of the CPKC Shuswap Subdivision at Squilax, British Columbia, Canada.

If you go to Google, select Maps and paste in 50°51'50.1"N 119°34'58.5"W you'll see the location of the camera for this video.

Technical:
Recorded with a Canon XA55 4KHD Pro video camera at 1920x1080 resolution and 60 frames per second. It is equipped with an Azden SMX-10 Stereo Microphone mounted inside a Rode Blimp Windshield. A Neewer NW74K 7-Inch 1920x1080 Field Monitor is also used. All equipment is mounted on a custom Neewer camera cage attached to a Canadian Studio Pro Heavy Duty 72" Tripod using a NEEWER GM006 Pro Video Fluid Head.

Video is edited, produced and rendered using Cyberlink PowerDirector 2024 Ultimate.

Credits:
Where provided, information regarding locomotive types, build and other data are from the '2025 Canadian Trackside Guide' published by (and available from) the Bytown Railway Society Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Some information is also obtained from https://rac.jmaponline.net/canadianra...

Safety Notice:
N.B.The photographer and cameras did not encroach on the railway right-of-way in taking this video. It is dangerous, foolhardy (and illegal) to enter on railway rights-of-way. Just sayin' ... "You don't stand on a runway to watch airplanes."

Public Service Announcement:
Skeena Pacific is a supporter of the Operation Lifesaver Canada. Operation Lifesaver (OL) is dedicated to preventing collisions at railway crossings and railway trespassing incidents in Canada. They believe the key to achieving this goal is public education. Operation Lifesaver in Canada is funded by the Railway Association of Canada and Transport Canada, working with the rail industry, governments, law enforcement, labour groups, the media, and other organizations and communities from coast to coast to increase awareness about rail safety—because rail safety is a shared responsibility. https://www.operationlifesaver.ca/

Note: any music in this video (except as attributed) is being performed publicly and is unavoidably incidental to the video. Such public performance is the responsibility of the group or organisation making the presentation and they should be contacted with reference to copyright.

Warning:
This video and audio material is copyright - James F Gilham, dba Skeena Pacific, 1976-2025 All Rights Reserved - and may not be reproduced in any form without written permission.
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