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Best hobby in the world ! A photographer friend recommended the Nikon brand, bought my first used Nikon in 1976 and continue to use that Nikon body regularly. Best ever train ride: Extra 6060 west, a seven car train, Ottawa to Toronto via the (now lifted) Smiths Falls subdivision (mostly at 25 mph) then onto the Kingston sub, west of Napanee the engineer let 6060 really run: at 80+ mph 6060 sounded like the Turbo ! Then a brief stop at Port Hope demonstrated that the 'grape vine' really worked (who needs "social media" ! ) : the whole town showed up! sdfourty.

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Hello There to You Too !
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A friendly wave from the crew was normal protocol
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And a neat lash up too !
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GMD / EMD variety pack: SD40-2 / GP40-2(W) / GP40-2(W) / GP40-M-2
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CP Rail 5738 / GO 709 / GO 705 / GO 723 ( ex RI 3001; RI 377 )
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CP Rail #904 at Coakley, mile 86.5 Galt Subdivision, February 18, 1984 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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More Coakley variety:
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 46540 "> westbound mix </a>
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/18/1984
Location:	Woodstock
Province:	Ontario

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An End of Train Device,
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Newfoundland style,
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Daily, except holiday(s), Terra Transport Mixed Train #204, awaiting the scheduled 18:45 departure for the five hour run to Bishops Falls.
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Ex CN caboose #6053 on the high rail, at Corner Brook, Newfoundland, August 2, 1982 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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More #204:
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 46482 "> on the high rail </a>
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Terra Transport
Date:	08/02/1982
Location:	Corner Brook
Province:	Newfoundland and …

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Oh, there are days and then there are daze...
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…. ( like the many times at Bayview where the bird watching is good ).....
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And sometimes the day's fanning just happens to all come together.....
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... the word was out....effective July 1986 CP Rail eliminating the Operators' position at Guelph Junction...
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and the fanning was very good that June 8.....three heavy freights within two hours.... on a Sunday morning!
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And so much to do.....chatting with the Operator, checking the GO storage yard, checking the lighting conditions, lining up the photo angles....
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a heavy five unit CP Rail #916 approaches the Junction at smoky speed with a SD, three big M's and a big C.....
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5943 – 45xx – 4505 – 4568 – 4553 ….. SD40-2 / M630 / C630M / M630 / M630,
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and the Operator stands her ground to hoop the Eastbound's train orders....
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At Guelph Junction, June 8, 1986, Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Notable: was so busy that morning overlooked recording the young lady's name !
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Oh...in the GO yard that is 504, 907, 905 left to right. And two CP Rail plows on the right....
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...Guelph Junction never been the same since.....( granted the OSR years were good too...now that has passed too)...
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/08/1986
Location:	Guelph Junction
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 30 Favourites

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Trains, Bridges, Waterways .....
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FP9A 6504 is in charge of VIA #3 SUPER CONTINENTAL....
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The Bridge Tender's shanty was re-sided in white and as of August 2014 was in situ. More recently appears to have been replaced by a trailer. Drawbridge is in service May 1 to October 15.
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at the CN Drawbridge mile 89.9 Bala Subdivision, September 29, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 47728 "> bridge view </a>
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	09/29/1979
Location:	Severn River
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

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Trains, Bridges, Waterways .....
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FP9A 6504, a F9B and another FP9A are in charge of VIA #3 SUPER CONTINENTAL....
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….on the Super C's tail end: two E series sleeping cars, two River series – one in CN livery – sleeping cars and a baggage.
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at the CN Drawbridge mile 89.9 Bala Subdivision, September 29, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Q: When the bridge is a swing bridge, why do the railways call such Interlockings a 'Drawbridge'??
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Notable: The Bridge Tender's shanty has been re-sided in white and as of August 2014 was in situ. More recently appears to have been replaced by a trailer. Drawbridge is in service May 1 to October 15.
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Noteworthy: The CN Drawbridge is in a park like setting on the Trent Canal main channel between Sparrow Lake ( north) and Lake Couchiching ( south). The bridge is CN controlled, Trent Canal mile 209.1 (from Trenton at mile 0.0), upon approach boaters must observe the bridge status...the bridge crossing is not signaled for boaters ( Locks are signaled) and for boaters “ is always a bonus when the bridge is open ”' …. and if a wait required ' not fun ' on a windy day. Boaters' wait times for clearance (swing time plus train time and opening swing time ) can be upwards of 20 minutes.
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Lock 42, the Couchiching Lock, Trent Canal mile 209.9 (from Trenton mile 0.0) is a few hundred yards to the north.
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E sleeping car, built for CNR: fifty two in the series (as of 1973): built 1952, 70 tons, 4 sections, 8 duplex roomettes, 4 double bedroom, examples #1137 Enfield, #1159 Eldorado
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River sleeping car, purchased by CNR from various roads: twenty from NYC in 1965, five from MILW in 1965, twelve from FEC in 1967, five from EL in 1967: as of 1973 forty seven in the series: most built 1949, 65 to 74 tons, 10 roomettes, 6 double bedrooms, examples CN #2131 Grand Codroy River (ex FEC Argentina), CN #2086 Pembina River (ex NYC 10199 Chicopee River). [source UCRS CNR Passenger Equipment binder]
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More Trains, Bridges, Waterways, adding Boats and Marina:
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 44247 "> mile 88.4 </a>
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	09/29/1979
Location:	Severn River
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

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...Seventies C P Rail ...
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….every lashup ... an adventure in motive power variety.....
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...mixing up first and second generation power.....
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… all ALCO designed: the 12 cylinder 244 prime mover engine and the16 cylinder 251 prime mover.....
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….a MLW built ' Power Demonstration ' on the 916: a trio M-630's ably assisted by a pair first generation MLW RS-10's
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On the Belleville Subdivision in the Northumberland ( Oak Ridges) Hills....(perhaps the east end Port Hope siding)
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October 14, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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...and the sound ...in the image you can almost feel those units with that sound ...that throbbing ALCO.. chug.. chug.. chug.. chug......
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Notable: after a disappointing experience with the GMD 1966-7 built SD-40's ( 5500-5564 some delivered in CPR grey maroon script) CP ordered ALCO designed MLW built (1968-1970 ): C-630M's 4500-4507 ( grey maroon); M-630's 4508-4512; 4550-4573. ( and also ordered the MLW M-636's in 1969) .... and the rest is well known history...
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/14/1979
Location:	Port Hope
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 19 Favourites

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Just love a November sunny Saturday afternoon...
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and a great time to try out my new (for me) used Nikkor 28mm f2.8 lens.
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At least twenty eight units (maybe a couple more hidden upper right)
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Of the manufacturer & models in the slide, here's my list, from the left, bottom to top:
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Budd cars in CN livery: RDC-2; RDC-1; CN MLW S-13; RDC-1; and at top: RDC-4; CN MLW RS-18;
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GMD FP9A ( CN 6531); F7B; MLW FPB-2u (either 6858 or 6559); MLW FPA-4; two ONR GMD FP7A ; CN MLW S-13;
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GMD FP9A (VIA 6521); MLW FPB-4;
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MLW FPA-4 (VIA 6774); and three more units likely two FP9A and one FPA-4
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behind the pole: Budd car in VIA livery: RDC-1; and almost hidden, appears to be a MLW RS-18 and a GMD F
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extreme right, appear to be four coupled: two GMD F's; a MLW FPB-4; another GMD F and a MLW RS-18; at top MLW S-13
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at CN Spadina November 4, 1978 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Noteworthy: see any 'ditch lights'?

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	11/04/1978
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 18 Favourites

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through the Lake induced mist, at 80+ m.p.h., FP9A 6534 spits the mile 316 searchlight signals
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VIA #62 RAPIDO approaching the Rouge River bridge, October 6, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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More Scarborough RAPIDO
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 2436 "> CN 6514 </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 47404 "> CN 6524 </a>
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Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	10/06/1979
Location:	Rouge Hill ( Port …
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

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A popular CPR fan location.
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Mile 16.4 Goderich Subdivision
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Mile 39.2 Galt Subdivision
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My notes record 'station closed July 1986'
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at Guelph Junction, April 7, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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More GJ:
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 2803 "> operator at work </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 1835 "> long hood forward </a>
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Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/07/1979
Location:	Campbellville
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

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The Seventies C P Rail ...
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….when every lashup was an adventure in motive power variety.....
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….GMD – GMD - MLW combo: GP35 and SW1200RS is assisted by a MLW 'ugly 80' RS-23
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accelerating on the downgrade at the Campbellville Road crossing, April 7, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Note the location of 5006's marker lights ... a GP35 leading ! ? !
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Given no flags, no markers illuminated, this is a regularly scheduled train, likely this is fourth class #52 (?)
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Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/07/1979
Location:	Campbellville
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 24 Favourites

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Prior to the CPR's 1954 Budd built Park cars, the solarium cars graced the tail end of many CPR passenger trains.
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The NSC 1931 built CPR buffet-parlor-solarium-lounge ANTIGUA is CP Rail #63 Track Geometry Car. (ex work car #411255, 1971)
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As far as I can determine car 63 is now in traditional CP maroon livery and continues to serve as Track Recording Car 63
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TRC 63 at CP Rail Agincourt, October 8, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Notable:
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A search for sisters of ANTIGUA reveals as of 1960 CPR rostered a buffet-solarium-parlor car 'TRINIDAD' with 16 Parlor, 16 Observation, 6 Solarium seats ( per Patrick Doran's CPR book).
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 40673 "> right side car 63 </a>
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Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/08/1979
Location:	Scarborough
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

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A time honoured tradition...
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VIA #1's Sleeping Car Conductor observes progress from the upper dutch door of ex CP Rail Laurentide Park
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the daily ex CP Rail The Canadian under operation by your CN for your new VIA Rail Canada (at that time a very weird sight indeed ! )....at CN Bradford, an April 22, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 7292"> head end </a>
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	04/22/1979
Location:	Bradford
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 19 Favourites

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The Seventies C P …. … that is CP Rail a division of Canadian Pacific Limited...
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….when every CP Rail train was an adventure in motive power variety.....
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….and MLW Power Ruled !
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two C424's (#4203, 42x6), two RS-18's, a RS-3 (#8459) power a regular scheduled westbound, likely #915, with two in transit ex CP Rail VIA FP7A's ( VIA 1416, 14xx),
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near milepost 160 Belleville Subdivision, April 29, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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noteworthy....TOFC loads on the head end....
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...the ex CP Rail VIA 1400's (and ex CP Rail VIA 1900's) were a common sight on the Belleville Subdivison as the units cycled through maintenance schedules at the CP Rail Montreal shop,
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the in transit F's would cease June 17, 1979 when VIA trains 1 & 2, Canadian Canadien, commenced origination from Montreal's Central Station,
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(and concurrently VIA trains 3 & 4, Super Continental, commenced origination from Toronto Union Station),
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by that time the Budd built dome cars: ex CP Rail Skyline and ex CP Rail Park cars were cleared to enter MCS
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/29/1979
Location:	Newcastle
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 27 Favourites

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MLW's rule !
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VIA CN FPA-4 #6789, VIA CN FPB-4 #6865 and CN RS-18 #3105 have the morning Capital / Lakeshore, trains 43 / 53, on the move,
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Accelerating from the Cobourg station stop, June 23 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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interesting:
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at left note the livestock loading pen and ramp, CN work train caboose and rail transport work car,
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and the main line ribbon rail looks relatively new,
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at extreme right is my '77 Impala, and above the Impala is the CP Rail westbound searchlight home signal for the CN Cobourg Town Spur (CTS) interlocking at CP Rail Belleville Subdivision mile 135.2:
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CTS: Switch points face west from CN track KS12 (south service), interlocking controlled by the CP Rail Train Dispatcher.
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CTS: Originally the Cobourg Railway Company incorporated 1834, commenced operation 1853 ( three years prior to the GTR ( now the CN Kingston Sub.) completion) as the Cobourg & Peterborough Railway (C&P). The 2 mile causeway and bridge over Rice Lake was problematic and by 1866 the railway was re-routed east of the Lake and renamed the Cobourg Peterborough and Marmora Railway (CPM)
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The industrial tracks on the north side of the Kingston Subdivision were known as the Cobourg Yard, now known as Cobourg.
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	06/23/1979
Location:	Cobourg
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 17 Favourites

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Westbound at the CP Rail Leaside crossover *
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The one and only: The Empress, MLW 1957 built RSD-17, CP Rail #8921 ( assisted by RS-18 #8795 ) in charge of The Transfer.
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track on the right is the Don Branch mile 206.4 Belleville Sub., track switch at near left is for the south service track, to right in the distance is the VIA kiosk for the Havelock Budd
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at CP Rail mile 0.2 North Toronto Subdivision, Kodachrome, December 22, 1979 by S.Danko
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notable: * Crossover, single: for many decades, just one at Leaside from south track to north track, to allow eastbound Don Branch traffic ( used by the Havelock Budds) to access the north track, hence only the double absolute signal required for eastbound north track traffic.
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/22/1979
Location:	Leaside
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 20 Favourites

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…...T'was a near Silent Night …..
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......a few faint sounds.....
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…..a distant hum of fluorescent lights….
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….. a photographers' footsteps....
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…. a winding click of a Nikons' slow shutter speeds...
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….a gentle hiss from an EMDs' compressed air tank valve …
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….a waiting Monday's call to duty.....
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…. a fan's delight, left to right: EMD 1952 built GP7's: C&O #5773 / C&O #5735 / Chessie C&O #5781
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... a special place, the Pere Marquette Railway built roundhouse,
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…..a railway city, St. Thomas, Ontario, January 17, 1981 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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…. a very Merry Christmas to all and to all....
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….. a better 2022 New Year !
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…. a sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Chessie System
Date:	01/17/1981
Location:	a Railway City
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 13 Favourites

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Heavy Haul Haven
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Alco-philes Utopia
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Cartier Railway 81 and 74 on a southbound ore pellet train at Able, the first siding north of Port Cartier.
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At Able, P.Q., June 7, 1981 Kodak negative by S.Danko
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notable:
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Cartier 81: a 1975 built MLW M-636, scrapped 2003
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Cartier 74: a 1973 built MLW M-636, sold in 2002 to Marine Diesel Engines
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Cartier Railway (now Arcelor Mittal Mines Canada) first generation MLW's, Alco's, and GMD's out of service or sold by 2000 and or scrapped by 2011
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The six axle Alco's MLW's retired by 2002, some sold, some scrapped, several to WNYP (and since retired).
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Arcelor motive power is now nineteen GE AC4400CW, five SD70's, two SD90's and some leased GE's. ( credit Trackside Guide)
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Cartier
Date:	06/07/1981
Location:	Able
Province:	Quebec

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

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The original CNR passenger livery: Green Gold & Black
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The Track Side Guide records car Work Service 72917 as NSC 1953 built and retired from passenger service as Baggage 9089
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At the Fort Erie we all remember April 16, 1977 Ektachrome by S.Danko
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Noteworthy: At that time Work Service Cars were typically re-assigned passenger equipment
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And those outside braced wooden box cars appear to be from the prior century.
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/18/1977
Location:	Fort Erie
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

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Just never know what you will find at Bayview
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A 1968 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe receives some TCL: replacement of a fouling spark plug
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Meanwhile GMD 1974 built GP40-2L(W) CN 9409 and GMD 1956 built GP9 CN 4476 power Extra 9409 West mixed freight through the turnouts.
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At Bayview, October 14 1978 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/14/1978
Location:	Bayview
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 17 Favourites

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The westward view from the now removed Hopkins St overpass,
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VIA 64 powered by 1987 built GMD F40PH-2D #6421 traverse the mile 304 speed restriction on the North Main with the usual consist plus ex CP equipment on the tail end : two Budd baggage, a Manor and Skyline 504
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Operating on the north main due to the CN fiber optic cable train with TOP's for the south main and Oshawa south service track, powered by CN SD-40 #5084 ( the future #6007 ) and SD-40W #5339
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Today GO / MetroLinx double track main and buildings occupy the lands on the north side ( to the right ).
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At mile 304 CN Kingston subdivision, October 20, 1991 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 9626"> cable action </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 8659"> Hopkins action </a>
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	10/20/1991
Location:	Whitby
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 10 Favourites

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