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Christmas train curious i called it well i called it because well its happened everytime so far. Well anyway My dad and i always wanted to see the christmas train in Brandon Manitoba & Virden Manitoba which are our favorite places to watch CP on the main well anyway i was reading the CP site news and read about the christmas train and showed my dad and figured out when it would get in to brandon because of the CP schedule so my dad told me to mark it on the calendar this was going to be the best trip my dad and i were going to head up there 45 minutes before it got there to catch some winter railfanning at the brandon yard. The morning i got up put film in my camera and then went to school nice sunny day getting quite excited to tell u the truth well who wouldn't be i waited and waited for the final bell it rung i ran home got all my stuff ready then dad came home we get 10 or 15 miles tops and ran into Bad weather barely can see 6 feet front of the car so we stopped and i just started swaring then my dad great calming me down told me we could watch trains next day but not the christmas train and then said well we no what to do next winter. Part 2 It was early december i looked on the site and it said it would be coming to brandon in a week so my dad and said it would be perfect because he was off work and could catch it in the morning head to its next destination it was a good so far u know how i new that on the news it said they caught saddam hussien i knew it was going to be awesome maybe best trip yet so we set off to Virden because the main runs along the trans canada to Brandon so we got Virden heard a horn so we drove to the closet crossing hoping it was it a little early but nope it was a Soo line SD60 and 2 CP sd40-2s with a westbound mix freight then we decided to stay and have breakfest at the hotel across the tracks right after we got done our meal heard another horn a westbound Mixed freight again led by a another emd SD90/43mac 9102 then we decide we should stay to wait for a next train a another emd 2 SD40-2s came roring throught i thought man we should see it today my favorite locomotive manufacture EMD was all the kind of engines we were all seeing and thought this is going to be the day we see the Christmas train then we drove along on the trans-canada highway then we saw the headlights of a train i saw 2 CP Red Barns 9012 and 9017 bring a westbound grain train then we didn't see anything after that tell we hit the Brandon Yard 2 Emd Sd40-2's in the CP multmark paint scheme with a Autorack/intermodal train ready to leave on a westbound trip to my best guess was Moose jaw or Swift Current then we drove over the bridge looking the entire yard to see if it was parked behind the train nope just 2 GP9u's and a GP38-2 parked ready to serve some local factories all emd then we decide to call it a day and head back to Virden then see one more train and leave and then we say the final of the day a CP 8600 series Ac4400cw a CEFX AC4400cw 1007 and then a CP AC4400cw in the 8500 series on a eastbound intermodal train to winnipeg then we left and then 2 days later we had a train in town and got to go up in the cab of the Engine and talk to the engineer and the first thing i asked was when was the Christmas train in brandon and when did it departure he said came in around 19:30 and left around 02:30 to broadview for there next stop. Then just this past week or so i was looking on the CP site and it said DECEMBER 11 coming to Brandon Manitoba then i told my dad he said were not missing it this time. So i am hoping we dont miss it again well thats my story but least i looked on the bright side least i saw almost every type of emd on cp's roster SD40-2 SD60 SD90/43mac sd40-2f GP38 GP9u all i missed was the SD40-2m GP40-2s and SW and MP switchers o well i had fun with my dad going train watch o and one note i even saw CSX coil car in the dark future scheme [:D]
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