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This string of CLC locomotives headed by CN 2204 is in the CN Reclamation Yard in London, Ontario on November 30, 1968 (Exactly 50 years ago today). Electric 101 to the left of 2204 is from an unknown railroad.
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Caption: This string of CLC locomotives headed by CN 2204 is in the CN Reclamation Yard in London, Ontario on November 30, 1968 (Exactly 50 years ago today). Electric 101 to the left of 2204 is from an unknown railroad.

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Robert Farkas [359] (more) (contact)
Date: 11/30/1968 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 2204 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Not Provided
City/Town: London (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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7 Comments
  1. awmooney
    November 30, 2018 at 5:14 pm

    Sad and beautiful at the same time.

  2. PRR5406
    November 30, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    Yes, Mr. Mooney is correct. Seeing a whole class of locomotives go into extinction just doesn’t feel proper.

  3. mercer
    December 1, 2018 at 9:56 am

    I think the electric ( steeplecab) could be ex Oshawa Railway 401…??. 400-403 were all cut up at this yard by early 1969.

  4. refarkas
    December 1, 2018 at 1:34 pm

    Thanks to mercer, I believe that might have been Oshawa 401. Perhaps enough of the “4″ could not have been seen, so I thought it was 101.

  5. pierre fournier
    December 2, 2018 at 11:11 am

    I remember them well at PSC Montreal in 1968 as I was apprentice,they brought them in to remove their twin cramshaft engine and generators and also the traction motors i think ,then they sent the bodies somewhere.

  6. Noe
    December 2, 2018 at 8:41 pm

    Great image that is certainly somber and historic at the same time.

  7. dhaisell
    December 4, 2018 at 9:06 pm

    When did Reclamation Yard stop being used as a storage site for retired engines?
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