Jubilation! por Ryan Gaynor
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This past weekend, the town of Eastend, Sask., celebrated its 50th anniversary of Dino Days â a true homecoming celebration â with a dazzling display of fireworks and the second-ever run of Eastend Scenic Rail Tours. While most of the town congregated around the local ball diamond for fireworks, followed by a late-night game of slow pitch, the burgeoning tourist railway's fleet of F units slumbered in the celebration's glow. These handsome locomotives belong to Gary Southgate, a North Battleford grain farmer and preservationist, whose impressive collection of vintage Canadian railway equipment has found a home port at Eastend, situated along the Great Western Railway's Altawan Subdivision. The following morning, EMD FP9u 6311 (nĂŠe CN 6529) would guide a sold-out run down to Ravenscrag through the rugged Frenchman River valley. Remarkably, both of the locomotives pictured had already been plying the rails for nearly two decades when Eastend held its first Dino Days. The 6311 is no stranger to festivities, though, as it was reportedly one of the locomotives assigned to Canada's Confederation Train in 1967. Technical details: single-frame exposure. 1750 lit with one AD200 Pro off-camera flash; 6311 by my Subaru Forester's high beams.