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A BOY WHO LOVES TRAINS

Nathan is a 13  year old boy from Toronto, Canada 
and he LOVES all trains
Especially CP Rail




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This Makes Up...!

1/19/2017

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We saw 16 trains but we had no camera for pictures (stock photo below).
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On the way to the place where I go skiing we were driving by many different train tracks. They are CP, CN, GO Train and VIA tracks (and the subway train too). It was a big surprise that on the way there we saw 13 trains in one hour of driving.
The trains included 6 GO trains and 7 freight trains.  The first freight train we saw I thought was never going to end. We went under a bridge and 20 minutes later when we caught up to the engine the train was still going over the bridge.  I predict it was about 5 miles long!

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When we finished skiing and on the way home we saw 3 more trains. This time there was 1 GO train and 1 freight train. That made 7 Go trains and 8 freight trains. And when we got off the highway we saw one subway train. Which totals 16 trains in two hours of driving. I think that's a record.
This makes up for not seeing our usual amount of trains in Florida (see my last post).
So this was a surprise and a happy two hours of train spotting.
​Until next time!
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Tri-Rail

1/16/2017

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Over my winter break I went to Florida. For the holidays, before I went to Florida, I got a new radar gun (see it in the photo below). I was really excited when I got it. Even though it's for baseball, I thought I could also use it to see how fast trains were in Florida. In Florida we didn't see a lot of trains but one day we got really lucky. We were playing catch at the beach with my radar gun to see how fast we could throw and on our way back we were first in line when the bars went down at the railway crossing.  It was for the Pompano Beach Tri-Rail commuter train.  
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My family shouted: "NATHAN, RADAR GUN! QUICK!"
I got the radar gun as fast as I could and I pointed it at the train and clicked the trigger. I found out after the train went by that it was going 24mph (38.6km).  (The photo below is of my throwing speed, we didn't take one of the train's speed).
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We didn't see our usual amount of trains of Florida, but I'll write about seeing trains in my next post. Stay tuned!
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    About Nathan

    Nathan is a 13 year-old boy who loves ALL trains. Especially freight trains. And especially CP Rail.
    This is a blog about  his journey to discover more about the trains he loves.

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