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This is not John Street. It is West Toronto.
I stand corrected. I do recall being at John Street that day, perhaps refresh my memory as to where West Toronto would be. I was along for the ride that day and not too familiar of the area.
West Toronto Yard is adjacent and continuous with Lambton Yard. They are in the west end on the Galt Sub. at start of MacTier Sub.
Back in 1973, that unit showed up at Woodstock ON for the roadswitcher/yard jobs there. We took the crusty old girl over to Ingersoll & back even though it wasn’t actually equipped for ‘road’ service without a pilot. I recall it roade like a jeep on a plowed field & it had a funny sounding single horn that sounded like a tugboat. Looks like the horn was replaced sometime after that.
I aslo recall another time on a westbound out of Toronto we had this unit for Guelph & had to set it off at Guelph Jct. I was head end brakeman and becuase we were close to tonnage for the hill, I went back & ran it from Streetsville until we got close to the ‘Jct’. When we arrived there, I uncoupled from the train and the hogger pulled past the east Goderich Sub switch (where the GO trains once entered their yard)I revered the switch & ran it into one of the Goderich yard tracks. While I did that, he normaled the switch and coupled the power back on the train. He then started to pull and I ran across from the yard & jumped on the power..I think the whole move took us about 5 minutes. One couldn’t get away with stuff like that now.