In the past I have posted a few videos of long freight trains passing through the town of Fort Langley (British Columbia, Canada). I recently did another trip there, but decided to explore surrounding areas instead of taking videos from the same place. So I started driving away from Fort Langley to search for a good spot to take some videos. I was driving east along River Road, which goes parallel to the tracks and the Fraser River.
While driving, I suddenly saw a train approaching towards me. It was a west bound CPKC (Canadian Pacific Kansas City) train with double stacked containers, heading towards Deltaport (the port of Vancouver). It had two locomotives at the front. Luckily, I found a side road very soon, made a U-turn, and started driving in the opposite direction, parallel to the train.
Driving along with the train was one of the best moments of my day. It felt really cool to 'race' with the train, especially since it had such colorful containers. I was going slightly faster than the train and at one point I thought I might catch up to the locomotives, but then I soon realised that the train is taking the branch towards Langley and the port, that crosses the road I was on. So I got stuck at the level crossing to wait until the train had passed.
About a minute and a half after stopping at the level crossing, there was a locomotive in the middle of the train followed by another long set of wagons. However, the first half of the second set was empty without containers. Then the train started slowing down a bit. In the end instead of waiting, I decided to make another U-turn and go in my original direction to reach the end of the train sooner. Few seconds after that, I finally crossed the last containers, and that was the end of my adventure!
And luckily, you can watch the entire episode, since it was all recorded on my dashcam. It's not the best quality, but still better than nothing!
Hope you enjoyed the video and the experience. Please do like, share and subscribe. Thanks!
Date of video: 28 August 2024
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