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[Ed note: For anyone looking closely, the 'artefacts' on the roof of right building are actually roof tiles] Power to spare at the roundhouse, and we were free to wander. Just keep your head up and don't climb on anything.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 02/18/1983
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
I managed to catch one VIA detour after the Mississauga derailment on CP in November 1979. VIA #84 is heading up the Halton Sub at Burlington, after the evacuation zone was extended south to Lake Ontario. I wonder if anyone knows how many VIA trains took this routing?
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 11/13/1979
Location: Burlington
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 6 Favourites
I heard this eastbound on the scanner as I was driving up to Guelph Jct. When he called "Highball Puslinch 8446 east" I knew I had a chase on my hands. At this late date I wasn't about to let an RS3 leading slip through my hands. The first shot was at Campbellville, where I slipped onto the 401 and rocketed over to Trafalgar Road. As a train of work equipment it was limited to 40 per I believe, so I knew I had a good chance the pursuit would pay off. The second unit is RS10 8465.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/30/1979
Location: Oakville
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 4 Favourites
Three GP38-2s, 5505, 5566 & 5514 eastbound at Aldershot with a dimensional and a string of 40 footers.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/15/1978
Location: Burlington
Province: Ontario
Comments | 3 Favourites
When CP ran extra trains from Toronto to Hamilton they were known as Extra Hams, a designation that I always found humorous because it sounded like something you'd ask a family member to bring for Thanksgiving. Pictured at Desjardins, and about to duck under one of Hamilton's most beautiful bridges are SD40s 5539, 5529 and GP35 5004.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/09/1979
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 7 Favourites
A pair of SW1200RS's back to back was always a nice catch. Speeding through Port Credit with a local are 1319 & 1329.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/19/1978
Location: Port Credit
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 15 Favourites
In sequence, TH&B 73, 74 & 75.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 10/17/1981
Location: Vinemount
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 10 Favourites
I guess you could say this was a sign of things to come, although we didn't know it at the time. CP power never ran through on the TH&B, it was always changed off at Aberdeen. For whatever reasons, that didn't happen to the "Extra Acid" pictured here. Upon arrival in Hamilton it was re-crewed and sent on its way to Port Maitland. Of course no one was complaining as most often these acid trains were powered by a pair of SD40s, which we all hated. If it had to happen the powers that be chose an outstanding lash-up with RS10 8564, GP35 5022 & GP30 5000.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 02/23/1980
Location: Vinemount
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 5 Favourites
An "Extra Acid" is headed for Port Maitland with GP7s 75, 73 & 72 in charge.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 12/12/1981
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 6 Favourites
In the 1980s, a fertilizer plant in Port Maitland, Ontario, started receiving unit trains of phosphate rock from Florida, as well as acid trains from Northern Ontario. CP handed both of these trains off to the TH&B at Aberdeen Yard.<br> <br> One such "rock extra" is pictured here at Vinemount with TH&B geeps 72, 73, 77 & 403 working their collective guts out.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 04/23/1983
Location: Vinemount
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 24 Favourites
The three Penn Central geeps pictured here on the Starlight, are from the era when power from three different railways was supplied for this train. On Sundays, the Starlight always brought power that would be used on that weeks Goderich Job, which in this case is an RS10/RS18 combo.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/02/1975
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 9 Favourites
CP detour #942 has changed direction after coming down the Goderich Sub (see pic 8078) and is now heading east through Bayview. It will get back on home rails at Canpa.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/11/1979
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 7 Favourites
Some detours that resulted from the Mississauga derailment and evacuation came east across the Galt Sub to Guelph Junction, and south on the Goderich Sub into Hamilton. They pulled up into Aberdeen Yard, then backed around the wye and continued east on the Oakville Sub via Hamilton Junction.<br> <br> CP #942 is the first one I saw and is about to duck under Hwy 6 with RS18 8769 and three C&Os - GP30s 3046, 3006 and GP35 3537.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/11/1979
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
7 Comments | 23 Favourites
After sitting in the hole at Paris West for VIA #83 (see pic 8031), CP #903 continues on its detour routing over the Dundas Sub, putting on a show as only Alcos can.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/18/1979
Location: Paris West
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
Another shot of the CP detour with 4204, C&O 3539 & 3046, and CP 8731 at Paris, as they continue their trek over the Dundas Sub. Photo 8029 pictures the start of this trip.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/17/1979
Location: Paris
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
The East Local sets out from Hamilton on a bright and cold January morning with GP7 #77. Most often it ran with one unit, but on rare occasions it had two. You'd never find a fan out in shorts on a day like this. Wink!
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 01/13/1981
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
The east local with GP7 72, is returning to Hamilton after a days work. Once around the wye the hogger will back into Aberdeen Yard, drop his train, and return the geep to the roundhouse. Day is done.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 07/03/1980
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 18 Favourites
Wide open and with exhaust smoke boiling out the stack of FPA4 6778, VIA #83 rockets past CP detour 903, in the hole at Paris West. Hard acceleration is common on westbounds at this location, but I had to wonder if the CN crew was putting on a show, knowing a CP crew was watching.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/17/1979
Location: Paris West
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 8 Favourites
Detour CP 903 will shortly complete its ascent of the Dundas hill with M-636s 4729, 4713 and C&O GP35 3561.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/17/1979
Location: Copetown
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 15 Favourites
Pictured is a CP detour that followed the infamous Mississauga derailment on November 10, 1979. CP 4204, C&O 3539 & 3046, and CP 8731 rumble onto the Dundas Sub at Bayview Jct. A CN pilot will guide them as far as London, where they'll return to home rails.
Name: James Adeney
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/17/1979
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
7 Comments | 18 Favourites
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