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Been a long time rail fan taken slides since about 1973

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Trailing a westbound CP freight is SOO caboose 76 passing through Guelph Junction. GO Transit F59s 528 and 548 can just be seen on the storage tracks behind.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: SOO Line
Date: 06/1993
Location: Guelph Junction
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
A shot probably taken at one of our LLL, Leaside Loco League, meet ups of eastbound SD's through Leaside with a pair of SOOs up front. Lots of CAST containers bringing up the head end.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/1986
Location: Leaside
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 17 Favourites
CN SW1200RSu 7308 sits near the shop at Mac Yard coupled to M420 3522. Built in 1960 as CNR 1373, the pup was rebuilt in 1987 to 7308 and retired in March 2000. From CN, the unit was sold to Canac and later to Savage Services, receiving their paintjob around 2013 <a href=https://train-orders.com/RFN/ETC/014.jpg>becoming SVGX 7308.</a> Barely in frame, 3522 originally CN 2522, would be retired in March 1998 and sold a few months later to National Railway Equipment in Silvis, Illinois. It would be picked up by the <a href=http://capecodrails.railfan.net/cccx/ccc2000s.jpg>Cape Cod Central Railroad becoming their 2000</a> for a couple of years before returning to Canada and heading for the prairies as <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=25117>Great Western Railway 2000.</a> The GWR retired it’s MLW fleet in recent years, with the 2000 moving east to Manitoba, now operating on the Keewatin Railway as their 2404.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 1990s
Location: Concord
Province: Ontario
Comments | 17 Favourites
VIA 73 is seen making it's station stop at Burlington West. Looks like it's a weekend with the lengthened consist.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: Late 1982
Location: Burlington West
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 16 Favourites
A set of SOO power leads what is likely a rock train headed for Aberdeen Yard southbound on the Hamilton sub crossing over Bronte Creek/Progreston Pond.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: SOO Line
Date: 07/1993
Location: Progreston
Province: Ontario
Comments | 12 Favourites
The sun now dipped below the horizon, it's time for a final shot of 431 at Guelph. Note the nose of CNR 6167 at far left. I had shot this train earlier <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=48133>at Limehouse</a> and just <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=48173>west of Acton.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/1998
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
Comments | 12 Favourites
Continuing west <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=48133>from Limehouse,</a> 431 crests the grade at Dublin Line just west of Acton.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/1998
Location: Acton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
Headed into the evening sun, CN 431 climbs through Limehouse about a month or so before operation of the Guelph Sub is handed over to the Goderich - Exeter Railway. GE Dash 9-44CW 2563 on the point is just over a year old, emerging from the factory in July 1997, and 25 years later is still seen <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44627>plying the rails.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/1998
Location: Limehouse
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 9 Favourites
Returning eastbound to Toronto, TH&B's Starlite heads through Bayview Junction with a pair of GP7s up front.<br><br><i>Doug Page Photo, Bruce Acheson Collection.</i>
Name: Doug Page Photo, Br…
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 12/1968
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 21 Favourites
Late in the day on a UCRS trip, a trio of RDCs (CN 6116, CN 6003, CN 6120) are seen moving away from the photographer during a photo run by on the Drumbo sub at Bright. The trip ran from Toronto - London via the Oakville and Dundas subdivisions to reach the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=38375>GMD plant for a tour.</a> Following the tour, the trip departed London for Hyde Park, taking the Exeter Sub north to Clinton and on to Goderich. Returning to Stratford, via the Drumbo sub to Paris, and back to Toronto.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/13/1975
Location: Bright
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 13 Favourites
A quartet of SD40-2s westbound through Puslinch, passing beneath Highway 6. The east back track switch in the foreground would be pulled in just a few years. Lead unit 6603 was scrapped by K&K in 2017, and second unit, 6615, was rebuilt to SD30C-ECO 5048 in 2016.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: SOO Line
Date: 08/2005
Location: Puslinch
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 21 Favourites
A trio of CN Canadian Cab units head south at Garnet about to cross Highway 6. RPM Used Vehicles dealership is in the background. CN 9651, sold in 2000 to Helm Financial, later to <a href=http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4361416>Alabama & Tennessee River Railway 9651.</a> CN 9631 sold to Alstom in 2001, sold to Yadkin Valley Railroad in 2003, to WATCO in 2004, still operating as <a href=http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5457283>WATCO 4021.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: Circa late 1990s
Location: Garnet
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 18 Favourites
Lengthy VIA 75 is seen at Burlington West with an A-B-B set of units up front. 6758 now resides south of the border operating on the <a href=https://www.railpictures.net/showimage.php?id=790910&key=2175312>New York & Lake Erie Railroad.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 05/1985
Location: Burlington
Province: Ontario
Comments | 15 Favourites
Former TH&B SW9 55 sits looking forlorn outside the Chatham Street roundhouse circa 1988. Built at GMDD London in December 1950, the unit was sold to Atlas steel of Welland in May 1988, to International Iron & Metal, also of Welland, the same year, and further to Merrilees Equipment of Lavalee, Quebec in December 1988. It would continue on to CP Forest Products in La Tuque, Quebec in September 1990, serving there until a sale to the Stone Container Corporation of Bathurst, New Brunswick as their number 01 circa November 1996. In April 2006 it would be sold to Glencore Canada Corp (formerly Xstrata/Falconbridge Mining) of Belledune, New Brunswick where it still resides per the 2021 Canadian Trackside Guide <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/industrial/nb/falconbridge_506.jpg>as their 506.</a> Information per the TH&B historical Society.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 1988
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 17 Favourites
With only a few months remaining on their Guelph Sub lease, GEXR 431 is westbound by Georgetown about to hit the crossovers at Silver.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: Summer 2018
Location: Georgetown
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 9 Favourites
A trio of SD75is lead west into the late afternoon fall sun by mile 30.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: Circa 2000
Location: Scotch Block
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
Ducking beneath Waterdown Road, VIA 73 heads west behind cab units from both GMD and MLW. The FP9A 6532, built as <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=18552>CN 6532</a> in May 1957, would be <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=11991>rebuilt/numbered to FP9Au VIA 6310</a> in 1984. This unit was one of the few <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=7028>repainted to the grey and yellow</a> experimental scheme in 1980. It would be wrecked on April 9, 1993 at Rapide-Blanc, Quebec after hitting a washout. Trailing unit FPA-4 6782, built <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=36794>for CN in March 1959</a> and retired from VIA during the late 80s.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 08/1982
Location: Aldershot
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 20 Favourites
GTW SW1200 1513 is seen at Mac Yard. Built in March 1960, the unit would be sold to Canac in 1997, as <a href=http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2925926>CANX 1513, </a>later rebuilt in 2013 to Burlington Junction Railway <a href=http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5377560>road slug 1513B.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Grand Trunk Wester…
Date: 1990s
Location: Concord
Province: Ontario
Comments | 20 Favourites
Power for the rock train moving about Aberdeen Yard.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: SOO Line
Date: 1990s
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 12 Favourites
Power for the rock train moving about Aberdeen Yard. Note <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44384>TH&B depot at right.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: SOO Line
Date: 1990s
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 15 Favourites
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