Very Heavy CN Train 406 West w/BC Rail Cowl DPU at Petitcodiac, NB (Sept 12, 2017)

It's very rare to see a BC Rail Cowl Dash-8 as a DPU! Canadian National Railway locomotives 3037 (Tier 4 ET44AC), 2308 (ES44DC), 2647 (C44-9W), mid-train remote DPU's BCOL 4602 (C40-8Mu), and 8948 (EMD SD70M-2) provide traction for a long and very heavy CN manifest train A406 West (Moncton, NB Gordon Yard to Saint John, NB NBSR Island Yard/Courtney Bay) westbound through Petitcodiac, NB hauling 147 cars of freight including 81 loaded Canpotex potash hoppers. The heavy train also had some gypsum and oil heading to the Irving Oil Refinery in East Saint John. Filmed at 2:53pm, Tuesday September 12, 2017 at about mile 20.5 of the CN Sussex Subdivision. Camera: Canon VIXIA HF R70