With two days of sunshine and decent temperatures, Saturday and Sunday would be a good time to take advantage of Mother Nature's kindness and spend some time trackside. Doing that would also provided a escape for me, albeit a temporary one, from cutting grass and planting flowers. Saturday's trains started off with NS 11J at 8:37 passing by with 114 empty autoracks at the Roycefield Road grade crossing. Motive power consisted of NS 9498 and NS 9907. At 9:18, NS Intermodal 22V came through with its consist of COFCs. After mowing a lawn, I returned to the Roycefield Road grade crossing to see NS 64J haul its consist of empty garbage containers on to the Roycefield siding. Motive power was two SD40-2s, NS 3373 (ex-CR 6436) and NS 3424 (ex-CR 6520).
Sunday's sighting at Stanton Station were sparse when compared to Saturday with one surprise. A late running NS 212 would have two UP units as the second and third units in its power trio. 212 would pass by Stanton Station aorund 12:30 with NS 9219 as its leader, followed by UP 9791 and UP 4297. All in all, not a bad day to be trackside and still manage to get all the grass cut along with all those flowers planted!
