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About Bruce Lowe


Bruce Lowe was born on the 24th of July, 1939. He always had a lifelong love of trains, and became a photographer as well. Born in Toronto before settling in Guelph, Bruce was able to shoot trains all over Canada. He and his wife, Audrey (nee Emerson) raised three children; David, Jennifer, and Richard. Bruce is remembered for his career as a teacher of Industrial Arts at Willow Road Public School in Guelph for nearly 30 years. He was a founding member of the Guelph Historical Railway Association in the early 1990s, and remained involved with the group until his death. He also served on the city of Guelph's Restoration Committee of Locomotive 6167. Bruce passed away on August 3rd, 2015. His extensive photo collection was left to the Guelph Historical Railway Association for preservation. Bruce was also a member of the HCEA, Historical Construction Equipment Association of Canada. Railways were Bruce's passion, and he can be seen here working one while watching another. Restoration and researching of these images is being carried out by Bruce's friend and fellow GHRA member, Jacob Patterson.

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The conductor has protected the Highway 6 crossing in Owen Sound, allowing GP9 4566 to continue down the switchback on First Avenue with three boxcars lifted from the CN/CP interchange.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/1985
Location: Owen Sound
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 34 Favourites
Bruce Lowe captured CP's Simcoe Sub wayfreight along the former Lake Erie & Northern Railway as it crosses Water Street, Highway 24 at the south end of Galt. On the spur at left is former Canadian National Railway caboose 78444, lettered for the fictitious Nith River, Grand Valley & Southern. The caboose, owned by a business executive, was used as a private poker room, eventually being relocated to Oakville in 1990. After bouncing around in private ownership, the trackside guide lists it as surviving on a farm near Elora.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/1979
Location: Galt
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 31 Favourites
CNR U-1-a Mountain 6003 is southbound along the Huntsville Sub (Gravenhurst - Nipissing Jct./North Bay) near the cottage community of Lake Bernard. Despite five passenger trains each way almost daily, Lake Bernard would only be served by trains 41 (north/westbound) and 44 (south/eastbound) during the summer months as a flag stop. The 1956 season saw service from June 9 to September 8. Based on the sun angle this appears to be Saturday only train 56 which operated during the summer months from June 30 - September 1, 1956, departing the town of Sundridge - six miles north - at 0927h. Today the Huntsville Sub makes up the northern section of the Newmarket Sub.<br><br><i>[Geotagged location may not be exact.]</i>
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/1956
Location: Lake Bernard
Province: Ontario
Comments | 20 Favourites
Ex-CPR 1057 is just west of Morris Street in Guelph after turning on the wye during a trip to the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, organized by the Ontario Rail Association. Now facing south, 1057 will tie onto it's train and proceed tender-first up the Goderich Sub to Elmira. Bruce Lowe would shoot the train <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=46164>on it's return that afternoon</a> in the north end of Guelph.<br><br><i>Bruce Lowe Photo, Eric Repaci Collection.</i>
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Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/05/1974
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
Comments | 15 Favourites
A dimensional movement of three transformers from ABB, two on flatcars, the third on schnabel car HEPX 200, crawl slowly through Guelph approaching Suffolk Street. The site seen here used to have much more rail activity with the Guelph City Spur branching off towards the pine tree, customer <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_51/156/201484616.jpg>Federal Wire & Cable Co, later Pirelli Cable</a> off to the right, and an interchange connection with the Guelph Radial Railway at right on Suffolk Street before it was removed in 1929. The Pirelli site is now a housing development, their parking area at left is now a park, and the City Spur was <a href=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jcWPFor3CSOpjpm_LbtLyV1VZRZKQhq-/view?usp=sharing>pulled up in 1972.</a>
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 2002
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 13 Favourites
Steam sits among first generation diesel power around the Belleville turntable. CN U-4-1 6400 is in town for the 1964 Belleville Railway Week festivities, taking place from Jun 23 - 28. Note the number plate is not on the nose, but it will be affixed before the activities begin.<br><br>Both 3807 and 3813 are part of CN's small fleet of RS10 units, numbered 3800 - 3814. Built in 1956, they would be retired by 1970. GP9 4326, built 1959, would be <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=37264>rebuilt in 1984 to CN 4111</a> and retired in 2010. It was sold to Mid-America Locomotive & Car Repair Inc. and lettered MALX 4111. As of 2018 it is <a href=http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4941186>assigned to the Evansville Western Railroad</a> in southern Illinois and Indiana.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: June 1964
Location: Belleville
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 19 Favourites
On a trip out to Canadian National Railway's Mimico Yard, Bruce Lowe captured a pair of CNR's CLC CFA-16-4 units 8704 (built 1952) and 8722 (built 1953) in the servicing area near the roundhouse (behind photographer). Only 15 at the time, this was one of Bruce's outings with noted Toronto photographer <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43811>James Victor Salmon</a> who also <a href=https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/350253/cnr-8704-at-cnr-mimico-yards-between-royal-york-roa?ctx=db137cd4871a075f2e819863757c8aee4583b801&idx=1>shot this pair on this day.</a> The units would be renumbered to the 9300 series in 1956 and retired during the 1960s.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/1955
Location: Mimico
Province: Ontario
Comments | 18 Favourites
Its not just roads and sidewalks that need salt or sand to keep their surfaces safe, railyards need it too. On a visit to Mimico Yard in February 1985, Bruce Lowe captured a yard crew dropping sand along one of the ladder tracks, shoveling it off the deck of a flatcar modified with timbers to keep the sand on the car. <br><br>GMD SW900 7206, built 1953, would be renumbered to 7906 very soon, along with the rest of the series, to clear the 7200 series for GP9RM rebuilds, the earliest of which appeared in June 1985.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/1985
Location: Mimico
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 26 Favourites
Returning from a run to the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, Ontario Rail Association's ex CPR D10h number 1057 is seen southbound (timetable eastbound) crossing Woolwich Street and Speedvale Avenue in Guelph. Just a few years prior to this, Speedvale Avenue marked the northernmost city limit of Guelph, and the Co-op seen in the background would be "out in the country." Note the "City Limit" sign in <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_51/193/2009324070.jpg>this 1954 view.</a><br><br>The short stub siding at right on the east side of the Goderich subdivision mainline served the privately owned freight shed at far right (seen <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_51/193/2009324018.jpg>here at centre</a> in 1976). The shed served a number of small cartage firms and rail service was seen sporadically over the years. Behind the train, the rooftop sign of the local Esso station is seen, which today remains an empty lot. Across Woolwich Street, <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_51/198/2013391246.jpg>Root Home Centre</a> (part of Home Hardware Stores) can be seen. Now home to the Rexall Pharmacy, the site originally housed a <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_51/116/2012383.jpg>Loblaws Supermarket.</a><br><br>Looming over the whole scene (including the smokestack at left) is the sprawling United Dairy Producer's Co-operative (officially Gay Lea by this time). Originally constructed in 1949 (silos circa 1960), the Co-op was built on farmland owned by Guelph-born Operatic tenor, and later manager of the Metropolitan Opera of New York City, <a href=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1939/6/15/edward-johnson-of-guelph>Edward Johnson (1878 - 1959),</a> with the land having been sold in 1947 to the United Co-operative of Ontario. The Co-op would be renamed United Dairy and Poultry Co-operative in 1958, and later the United Dairy Producer's Co-operative in 1967. In 1972, the organization was renamed Gay Lea Foods, which still operates the site today as one of only 5 facilities in Ontario owned by the co-operative of over 1,200 dairy farmers* (*per 2010 Guelph Mercury article). The towering feed mill silos would be demolished in the 1990s and a processing plant built in it's place.<br><br>Note the "Danger Bell" sign used at Speedvale Avenue <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_51/193/2009324067.jpg>in this 1954 image.</a> The box above the crossbuck would illuminate the word "DANGER" with approaching trains. Another was located at the Concession 11 crossing just south of Corwhin, known by crews as "Danger Bell".<br><br>A boxcar is seen <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_51/193/2009324065.jpg>on the stub siding in 1954.</a> Note the sign at centre which would be the northern mileboard for Guelph.<br><br><i>Bruce Lowe Photo, Eric Repaci Collection Slide.</a>
Name: Bruce Lowe Photo; E…
Railway: Tourist
Date: 04/05/1974
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 17 Favourites
A block of work cars are seen occupying siding XV50 along the CN Fergus Sub, paralleling Edinburgh Road in Guelph. These cars range from tool and storage cars to sleeping quarters, a crew diner, and various others. The bit of orange just visible at left is part of a Jackson Multiple Tamper (thanks Paul O'Shell) numbered CN 650-15. More equipment, including a ballast regulator, Burro crane 50418 and flatcars of crane attachments, and more sit out of frame, including a new ATCO portable mounted on a flatcar.<br><br>The track at lower right is the siding to Guelph Terminal Warehousing (XV32), now long removed. At upper left the original <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_460/037/08442.jpg>St. Joseph's Hospital</a> can be seen. Opened in 1861, St. Joseph's Hospital on Westmount Road (originally Hospital Street) served the community until operations ceased about 2002, and the new St. Joseph's Health Centre opened on the property just to the north, as a long term care home. A brief history of the site <a href=https://www.chac.ca/documents/171/Guelph_St._Josephs_Hospital_and_Home__a_short_history_1861-1986.pdf>can be found here.</a>
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/1972
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
The people are everywhere at Guelph station on September 21, 1975 which saw CNR U-1-f “Bullet Nosed Betty” 6060 leading an excursion chartered by the Buffalo Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society from Niagara Falls to Guelph via Lynden on the Fergus Sub. The 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotive, built in 1944 by the Montreal Locomotive Works, is seen posed alongside CNR 4-8-4 Confederation type 6167, which was retired from these same excursion duties 11 years prior. Today CNR 6167 can still be found in downtown Guelph, <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43392>recently relocated to its third home</a> in Priory Park. CNR 6060 is now under restoration by the Rocky Mountain Rail Society in Stettler, Alberta.<br><br>More from this day:<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44599>Nortbound at Harrisburg</a> by Bryce Lee.<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=42990>Photo runby near Guelph</a> by Bruce Lowe.<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14342>At CN Guelph Junction</a> by Bill Thomson.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/21/1975
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
Taken from the cab of SW8 7170 (GMD, 1951) on the CN Guelph Yard job, a meet is seen with the CP yard job, led by S3 6529 (MLW, 1955). CP is seen proceeding up the grade from Dawson Road towards Maple Leaf Mills, today Traxxside Transloading. At this time the facility only had <a href=https://guelph.pastperfectonline.com/photo/972F4526-25F7-49EC-B62B-041912931174>one spur on the property.</a> CN 7170 sits clear of the South Industrial main on the lead to National Standard; today Traxx 5 and 6; the Traxxside glass tracks. Both locomotives would be off the roster by 1986. The facility pictured behind is Court Galvanizing Ltd.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/1980
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 25 Favourites
Now who could that be? It’s amazing what can be stumbled upon when researching historical photos. With only a date and location for this image, it seemed as though the identity of the photographer at left would be lost to time, though it turns out his images are well preserved too. Researching the Toronto Suburban Railway led to the Toronto Public Library Archives section <a href= https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Ntt=Railroad+yards--Ontario--Toronto&Ntk=Subject_Search_Interface&view=grid&Erp=20>“Railroad yards--Ontario—Toronto”</a> where I came across <a href= https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-PICTURES-R-2776&R=DC-PICTURES-R-2776>this image…</a> Pretty similar, taken a bit further left. It seems this was James Victor Salmon, born in 1911, who was a well-established Toronto photographer, historian, and a designer for the Toronto Hydro Electric System for thirty years. His collection of Toronto photography contains over 15,000 images and culminated in his writing of <i>Rails to the Junction: The Story of the Toronto Suburban Railway,</i> which, after his death in 1958 at the age of 47, would be posthumously published by his wife, Jean, in 1970. Much of his work can be found on this <a href= https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/james-victor-salmon-toronto-photographer-1911-1958.19679/>Urban Toronto page</a> and through the <a href= https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?N=4292696885>Toronto Public Libraries</a> archives.<br><br>Here, Bruce captures James alongside CNR 6244, a <a href= http://www.cnrha.ca/sites/default/files/styles/node_gallery_display/public/node_gallery/u-2-h.jpg?itok=Mz7O4C9p>U-2-h 4-8-4</a> Confederation type, the tenth built in an order of 30 (6235 – 6264) by Montreal Locomotive Works in September, 1943. It would be scrapped in April, 1960. Note the difference in appearance of this U-2-h locomotive to other classes of CNR Northerns in the lack or relocation of the Elesco feedwater heater from just ahead of the smokestack. The double headed eastbound freight is seen approaching the Strachan Avenue underpass on the Oakville Sub. In the background at right is the John Inglis plant.<br><br>From it’s beginning in 1859, John Inglis and Company has gone through many changes. Founded by Thomas Mair, John Inglis, and Francis Evatt on July 27, 1859, the company began as small machine shop under the name Mair, Inglis, and Evatt in Guelph producing milling machinery before moving to the Strachan Avenue location in Toronto in 1881 becoming John Inglis and Sons. The company went through multiple name changes to the John Inglis Company Limited in 1913, John Inglis and Company in 1937, Inglis Limited in 1973 and finally Whirlpool Canada in 2001. The famous blue and white billboard overlooking the Gardiner Expressway would go up in 1975 with many messages displayed to motorists over the years. After discontinuing milling equipment in 1903 the company shifted to the industrial market making stationary and marine steam engines, pump house engines, shells for use by allied troops during WWI, turbines, and weaponry and munitions used in WWII, before moving to consumer products. These included fishing tackle, house trailers, heaters and stoves, wringer washers, and later fully automatic ones, electric and gas driers and dishwashers. Inglis would launch it’s Whirlpool brand of washers after selling it’s 1 millionth automatic washer in 1972. As the company slowly moved operations to Mississauga beginning in 1981, the Toronto location was sold off piece by piece. By the early to mid 2000’s, gentrification and condo development had begun. The final piece of Inglis, the billboard, would be dimmed and demolished during the last week of July, 2014.<br><br>More CNR 6244:<br>Bill Thomson: <a href= http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=29209>Freshly stored at Mimico, 1959</a><br>Don Ross: <a href= https://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0101/cn6244.jpg>Cold and dead at Mimico, Dec. 1959</a><br><br>The old Inglis Sign: <a href= http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=11861>March, 2004.</a><br><br>A series of Salmon’s images taken at Strachan avenue in 1955 from the Toronto Railway Historical Association: <i><a href= https://www.trha.ca/trha/from-the-archives-railfanning-liberty-village-in-1955/>Railfanning Liberty Village in 1955.</a></i>
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/1955
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 25 Favourites
The fireman aboard CNR 6167 pours on the coal as 6167 charges eastbound on the Campbellford Sub out of Lindsay on a Toronto-Lindsay-Belleville UCRS trip. In just over three months, 6167 will make her <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14528>last run on September 27, 1964.</a> Donated to the City of Guelph in September, 1967, the locomotive sat on display for many years at the East end of Carden Street at the end of the CN/VIA Rail station platform. Various groups have maintained the locomotive with great care over the years, most recently the major cosmetic restoration completed by the 6167 restoration Committee, of which Bruce was a member. <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=2905>June 15 and 16, 2010</a> saw 6167 moved to the south side of the Guelph Sub, and placed <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=15889>closer to the 1911 GTR station.</a> After spending the last decade at this location, 6167 is on the move again to a more permanent site, almost 1/4 mile east near the River Run Centre <a href=https://guelph.ca/wp-content/uploads/locomotive6167-relocation-keymap-1536x994.jpg>alongside the Guelph Junction Railway line.</a> The move will be undertaken tomorrow; Saturday, November 14, 2020, and can be live streamed from the <a href=https://www.facebook.com/guelphmuseums>Guelph Museums Facebook Page</a> beginning around 10:00am. As noted in this <a href=https://blog.metrolinx.com/2020/11/13/moving-history-guelphs-iconic-steam-locomotive-is-being-relocated-this-weekend/>article from Metrolinx,</a> the locomotive is being moved to make way for GO Transit's south platform at Guelph Central Station.<br><br>Thanks to Dave Spiegelman for help with the location.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/20/1964
Location: Lindsay
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 22 Favourites
A cold and damp Thanksgiving weekend 1974 finds a trio of freshly painted MLW RS18s lugging a 15 car passenger extra along the rails of the Meaford subdivision bound for the line's namesake town about 20 miles away. The extra, organized by Eric Winkler, M.P.P. for Grey South, was run from Toronto's Union Station to the annual Meaford Applefest. Bringing up the rear of the consist was the Upper Canada Railway Society's observation car #13, and CN business car #94, assigned to the Vice-President of the Great Lakes Region of Canadian National, Mr. K. Hunt. According to the <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sitezoogle.com/u/131959/46f75f7fd8df16001e353c26bd7acdb160068104/original/ucrs-346-347-74-nov-dec-474.pdf?response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJUKM2ICUMTYS6ISA%2F20201019%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20201019T004008Z&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=ae13ded55326a74a5fa85247902c868ea30115c5b6c61dd5a1b57066559195d8>UCRS November/December, 1974 newsletter,</a> the train would be followed from Allandale to Meaford by a pair of GP9s; 4511, 4503, to switch out the consist for the return trip, as well as to help the heavy train up the hill out of town. The plan was to cut off the geeps at Allandale, but as no RS18s were facing south, the geeps were kept on the lead; five first generation units hauling 15 cars back to Toronto. Consist is noted as the following: Power 3101, 3103, 3118, steam generator 15478, coaches 5413, 5285, 5228, 5423, cafe lounge 752, coaches 5203, 5185, 5214, cafe lounge 753, coaches 5285, 5183, 5210, U.C.R.S. 13, CN 94.<br><br>This would be the second large passenger consist to pass through Collingwood in 1974, as on June 15, the 17-car <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=41497>"Journey to History"</a> excursion was run to celebrate the christening of the new ferry, "Chi-Cheemaun", and Meaford's centenary.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/12/1974
Location: Collingwood
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 27 Favourites
A summer day in 1965 finds CNR big hook 50008 all steamed up, likely for Belleville Railway days which occuredlate June/early July. 50008 is a Bucyrus Erie, 250 ton crane, built 1946 with serial number 36210. Supplying the coal is tender 51585, and out front is boom tender 60033. According to Bruce's notes this was the last steam big hook on the CNR roster, and would be converted to diesel in the near future. Note two plows; CNR 55369, CNR 55396, and at least 3 flangerss visible in the yard. Thanks to Paul O'Shell for information on this crane, as well as MOW equipment in the rest of Bruce's collection.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/1965
Location: Belleville
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 18 Favourites
Rolling through Kelso Conservation Area, Extra 8785 west charges upgrade through Kelso with RS18 8785 and FPB-2 4466 up front. Not much traffic can be seen passing Arawana Farms' barn on the 401 across Kelso Lake. Built in 1958, 8785 would be rebuilt to CPR 1837 in 1987, and 1998 would be sold to the Minnesota Commercial Railroad as <a href=https://www.railpictures.net/photo/707231/>their number 83.</a> B-unit 4466, built 1953, is just a few years away from retirement in 1976. It will meet the scrapper's torch shortly after.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1973
Location: Kelso
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 18 Favourites
In response to Aidan Szabo's recent posting <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43134>looking North</a> from Nashville Road at Kleinburg, I thought I'd submit the view looking South from there almost 47 years ago. The CPR Kleinburg station, built circa 1908, and much closer to Nashville than Kleinburg, served as a station until 1964-65 when it was retired. At that time it became a private residence until the CP wanted it removed from the property sometime in 1976. As noted in <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=38379>Alan Pittman's post,</a> the station was relocated to a spot on Islington Avenue near Kleinburg Public School where it <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR_Bruce/stns/Kleinburg_P.jpg>remains today beautifully restored.</a>
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: Spring 1974
Location: Kleinburg
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 9 Favourites
An extra train has been called at the CPR, former GRR/LE&N, shops in Preston on July 13, 1964, to deliver CPR D-10-g 4-6-0 894 (Angus Shops, 1911) to its new home at the Doone Heritage Village at the South end of Kitchener. The hogger in the 6707 is seen waiting on the crew to finish looking over the 894 and van 435832 before getting underway to the CNR/CPR interchange just to the North of Queen Street South and Homewood Avenue (behind the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=23222>now closed Nougat Bakery</a>). Formerly home to the Lake Erie & Northern and Grand River Railway Equipment, the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10413>Preston Shops,</a> built in 1907, would serve into the 1960's as a locomotive shop for the SW1200RS units now working the line. Eventually, the Preston based jobs would be moved to Galt, reducing Preston to a <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=31973>car shop</a> until a fire destroyed the building in April, 1992. The "Grand River Railways Shop" sign still survives today on the <a href=https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48787517857_95f38e1568_b.jpg>East end of Barn 2</a> at the Halton County Radial Railway.
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/13/1964
Location: Preston
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 14 Favourites
CPR RS3 8459 rests at Orangeville with a cut of cars on a summer day. Built by MLW in 1954, this locomotive would serve it's entire career in the tattered script scheme, retired on October 3, 1979, and scrapped at Angus Shops.<br><br>Arnold Mooney shot 8459 around Woodstock in June, 1979, just months before retirement:<br>Departing the "shop track" at Woodstock: <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39641>June 12, 1979.</a><br>Northbound near Mount Elgin, returning from Tilsonburg: <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6301>June 12, 1979.</a><br>Working the west end of Woodstock: <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=15054>June 16, 1979.</a>
Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/1977
Location: Orangeville
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 17 Favourites
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