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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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sdfourty's 288 photos on Railpictures.ca:
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | GO Transit |
| Date: | 01/02/1983 |
| Location: | Mimico |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 04/29/1979 |
| Location: | Brighton |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 03/13/2014 |
| Location: | Cherrywood |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 03/13/2014 |
| Location: | Cherrywood |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 03/13/2014 |
| Location: | Guildwood |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 03/02/1980 |
| Location: | Newtonville |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 08/10/1985 |
| Location: | Parry Sound |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 07/13/1985 |
| Location: | Parry Sound |
| Province: |
Ontario |
![The gray days of winter: short daylight hours, heavy cloud cover, low contrast and compounded by slow film – fast Kodachrome was ASA64, regular Kodachrome ASA25 – hence slow shutter speeds....what to do...how 'bout night photography and remember after a night's shooting you have to wait a week or more for your Kodachrome to be processed and returned – a notebook was an absolute necessity to record subject, date, time, temperature (weather), shutter speed and aperture settings !
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The always busy night railway lands view from Bathurst Street: self propelled * Go Transit train, the Turbo entering the Spadina Coach Yard, four MLW S-13 CN 8500's simmer the night away in the north and Spadina coach yard, lighted switch stands, all contrasted by the never used and dark TTR Bathurst Street control tower. And no Sky Dome, no condo's, no railway grade separations.....track in the immediate right foreground is the double track CN High Line that allowed CN freight to by pass Spadina – John Street TTR Tower – Union congestion from Cabin D to east of Scott Street TTR Tower.
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[ * off peak and weekend GO service was sparsely patronized and handled by two or three car self propelled Hawker Siddeley built units ( pics out there by anyone?) numbered in the 'D' series (D100 to D108). ]
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January 2, 1977 Kodachrome by S. Danko - transported by a Nikon Nikkormat EL.
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Daytime Bathurst Street:
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6873"> busy place </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=8020"> Hawker Siddeley built </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=2165"> CP Rail #11 </a>
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More Turbo:
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6555"> near Scarborough Jct </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=2054"> near Guildwood </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=1825"> near Cherry Street TTR tower </a>
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sdfourty.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/93670011-200x150.jpg)
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Toronto Terminals … |
| Date: | 01/02/1977 |
| Location: | Toronto - Bathurst… |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 05/12/1979 |
| Location: | Washago |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 08/26/1978 |
| Location: | Alliston |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 10/xx/1991 |
| Location: | Whitby |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 02/xx/1977 |
| Location: | Dundas |
| Province: |
Ontario |
![T. H. & B. extra east at Hamilton Junction on a typical mild and hazy January Sunday afternoon.
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Extra east T. H. & B. #71 (white flags and white markers) enters the “joint track” section from CP Rail's 1.7 mile Hamilton Subdivision after traversing the T. H. & B. Hamilton Terminals Subdivision.
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Power is typical (destination CP Rail Agincourt): #71 - #403 - #75 ( GP7 – GP9 – GP7 ).
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At one time these trains were named 'Starlight' and 'Kinnear' and N.Y.C. / Penn Central / Conrail power was common.
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(perhaps someone more familiar can fill in details).
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T.H.& B. became a wholly owned Canadian Pacific Limited subsidiary in 1977 (after this photo) when Conrail sold their shares to Canadian Pacific Limited (CP Rail division), Conrail originally acquired (1976?) part ownership with the Penn Central bankruptcy. CP allowed T. H. & B. operations to remain independent for some time and as recent as 1985 the T.H.&B. continued dispatching authority. Operationally, by 1990 the T.H.&B. was no longer and the T.H.& B. Welland Subdivision was renamed the CP Rail Fort Erie Subdivision.
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Track at the far right is mile zero of the CP Rail Goderich Subdivision. Track at the immediate right is the 'wye track' (also referred to as the 'cow path' ) connecting the CN Oakville Subdivision north track to the CN Dundas Subdivision south track at Hamilton Junction West.
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January 23, 1977 Kodachrome by S. Danko
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[ courtesy A.W. Mooney: TH&B #71 :The first locomotive ever built { and delivered } by GMD in London after the locomotive division came into existence in 1950 was TH&B's GP 7 #71, and it met an untimely fate at Webber Rd, a few miles west of Welland on Feb. 12, 1980. A loaded semi failed to stop and broadsided the locomotive, knocking it into the ditch. Fuel spills resulted in both the truck and locomotive catching fire. The railroad crew survived but the truck driver perished. This view is from the following morning, as a heavy crane positions itself to assist in the attempt to bring #71 back onto its feet; and later it was taken to Hamilton........and eventually the scrapper.]
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=7294"> by A.W.Mooney </a>
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More T.H.& B. #71
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=2048"> at Agincourt </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=7573"> westbound </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=7326"> the end </a>
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sdfourty](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/66670001-2-S-Danko-200x150.jpg)
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Toronto Hamilton a… |
| Date: | 01/23/1977 |
| Location: | Hamilton Jct |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 06/25/1985 |
| Location: | Middleton |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 01/xx/1980 |
| Location: | Hamilton West Junc… |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 01/20/1985 |
| Location: | Toronto |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 01/26/1985 |
| Location: | Thornhill |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Ontario Northland |
| Date: | 01/26/1985 |
| Location: | North York |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Toronto Transit Co… |
| Date: | 12/xx/1978 |
| Location: | Toronto |
| Province: |
Ontario |
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