Railpictures.ca - Bill Thomson Photo: A nice 3-pack of Chesapeake and Ohio GP30′s poses by the station at Merlin ON (west of Blenheim) in May of 1964. Less than a year old, C&O 3021 leads the pack, with 3016 and another matching EMD sister as they wait at the station to meet a westbound on C&O’s Subdivision 1. Note the train order hoops in front of the station, the upper one for the crew in the cab, the lower one for the crew in the caboose to grab their orders from. Canadian railways have typically favoured hand-held train order hoops, as opposed to the ground-mounted ones shown here. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

A nice 3-pack of Chesapeake and Ohio GP30's poses by the station at Merlin ON (west of Blenheim) in May of 1964. Less than a year old, C&O 3021 leads the pack, with 3016 and another matching EMD sister as they wait at the station to meet a westbound on C&O's Subdivision 1. Note the train order hoops in front of the station, the upper one for the crew in the cab, the lower one for the crew in the caboose to grab their orders from. Canadian railways have typically favoured hand-held train order hoops, as opposed to the ground-mounted ones shown here.

Caption: A nice 3-pack of Chesapeake and Ohio GP30's poses by the station at Merlin ON (west of Blenheim) in May of 1964. Less than a year old, C&O 3021 leads the pack, with 3016 and another matching EMD sister as they wait at the station to meet a westbound on C&O's Subdivision 1. Note the train order hoops in front of the station, the upper one for the crew in the cab, the lower one for the crew in the caboose to grab their orders from. Canadian railways have typically favoured hand-held train order hoops, as opposed to the ground-mounted ones shown here.

Photographer:	Bill Thomson [715] (more) (contact)
Date:	May 1964 (search)
Railway:	Chesapeake and Ohio (search)
Reporting Marks:	C&O 3021 (search)
Train Symbol:	N/A (search)
Subdivision/SNS:	Merlin - C&O Subdivision 1 (search)
City/Town:	Merlin (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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2 Comments

awmooney

April 30, 2014 at 7:14 am

Thats gorgeous. Old Merlin station. Seems to me a derailment took the corner out of the building sometime in the late 60s. In any event the building is now history.
Marcus Stevens

April 30, 2014 at 12:28 pm

Awesome shot! Have never seen that station.

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