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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 321 photos on Railpictures.ca:
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Preservation |
| Date: | 09/12/2015 |
| Location: | Fort Erie |
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Ontario |
![The little trains that did.
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Via Rail train # 161 readies to depart* Ste-Foy for Gare du Windsor.
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Throughout the mid eighties all Quebec City trains terminated / originated at Ste- Foy due to road and related construction near the Gare du Palais.
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For two plus decades, the seventies under the CP Rail flag (trains #151 to #156) and the eighties under the VIA flag (#159 through #164), the CPR / CP Rail Budd Cars shuttled the 175 north shore CP Rail miles six times a day between Gare du Palais and Gare du Windsor.
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Notably, by eliminating some intermediate stops CP Rail scheduled ( 1976 timetable) the single Budd Car trains #152 and #154 at 3 hours for the 175 mile run including FIVE intermediate stops! That is an average 58.7 m.p.h. !
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( as a comparison the CN Rapido, with multiple road (cab) units, Bonaventure to Union, scheduled 5 hours for 335 miles including TWO intermediate stops ( 1969 timetable) for an average 67 m.p.h. )
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( * or is this #160 arriving? Either way those are Via Rail train numbers that have not been seen for decades! )
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At Ste- Foy, P.Q., June 26, 1984, Kodachrome by S.Danko.
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P S [ So it is with some amusement that October 2015 VIA decides to 'test' Budd Cars out of Ottawa ! ( although arguably some Via Rail crews probably have never seen nor know what a Budd Car is !! ]](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/67750002-2-200x150.jpg)
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 06/26/1984 |
| Location: | Ste-Foy |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Amtrak |
| Date: | 09/12/2015 |
| Location: | St. Catherines |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 06/25/1984 |
| Location: | Drummondville |
| Province: |
Quebec |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 08/20/1985 |
| Location: | Thunder Bay |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Ontario Northland |
| Date: | 05/21/1983 |
| Location: | Huntsville |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 06/25/1983 |
| Location: | Newcastle |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 10/02/2013 |
| Location: | Newcastle |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 03/18/2015 |
| Location: | east of Newtonvill… |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 02/28/2015 |
| Location: | Port Union |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 08/05/1985 |
| Location: | Washago |
| Province: |
Ontario |
![Engine maintenance facilities, always an opportunity !
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Especially old facilities. On dreary winter days.
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Several TH&B units present including the GP- 7 #72 ( the future CP Rail #1682, retired 2011) coupled to GP- 9 #401 (the future CP Rail #1688, retired 2013 (!)) ; and right centre an unknown TH&B geep with an unknown GMD built CP Rail unit in the back ground.
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No specific date for this black & white negative, a guess would be circa 1976 or 1977. I believe all the structures ( coal towers, fuel storage, and in the background the roundhouse ) shown here are history.
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B & W negative, at Hamilton, by S.Danko.
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Interesting:
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Just envision – at one time – that the TH&B Aberdeen Yard was a prime candidate for an operational steam and rail museum given the facilities: concrete (solid fuel) coaling towers, (liquid) fuel storage, turntable, brick roundhouse - Chatham Street ( demolished 1991) , mechanical shop(s), rail yard for storage, a wye and most importantly a lightly used branch line (Waterford Subdivision) with a westward grade to Summit, as well as access to a mainline with a heavy grade eastward up the escarpment. [ imagine a modern heavy Pacific (or Northern (!)) tackling the Welland Subdivision eastward to Smithville ( then onto Dunnville branch ( the Erie & Ontario Railway))] !
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More TH&B:
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=7325"> westward </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=12998"> extra east </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=3102"> Shwa Turn </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=16801"> great shot ! </a>
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sdfourty.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/71770008-31-200x150.jpg)
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Toronto Hamilton a… |
| Date: | 01/xx/1977 |
| Location: | Hamilton |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 01/02/1977 |
| Location: | Toronto |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Waterloo Central |
| Date: | 09/13/2014 |
| Location: | Elmira |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 10/09/1984 |
| Location: | Concord |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 06/26/1984 |
| Location: | Charney |
| Province: |
Quebec |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 02/13/1983 |
| Location: | Scarborough |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 06/xx/1984 |
| Location: | Scarborough |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Terra Transport |
| Date: | 08/07/1982 |
| Location: | Clarke's Beach |
| Province: |
Newfoundland and … |
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