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CN Mikados 3228 and 3282 doublehead a stone train from the Kirkfield Quarries, crossing Highway 35 in Lindsay on the Midland Subdivision. July 1958. [Editors' note: The CN Midland Sub was formerly the old Midland Railway, originally the Port Hope Lindsay and Beaverton Railway line from Lindsay to Beaverton.]
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Caption: CN Mikados 3228 and 3282 doublehead a stone train from the Kirkfield Quarries, crossing Highway 35 in Lindsay on the Midland Subdivision. July 1958.

[Editors' note: The CN Midland Sub was formerly the old Midland Railway, originally the Port Hope Lindsay and Beaverton Railway line from Lindsay to Beaverton.]

Photographer:
Bill Thomson [715] (more) (contact)
Date: 07/00/1958 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 3228, CN 3282 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: CN Midland Sub (search)
City/Town: Lindsay (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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12 Comments
  1. rsmith
    January 22, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    That is one impressive photo!

  2. awmooney
    January 22, 2014 at 10:12 pm

    Looking at this image, it’s not hard to see why so many steam buffs packed it in when diesel came along.

  3. headtailgrep
    January 24, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    Wow. Awesome.

  4. pierre fournier
    March 2, 2014 at 6:47 pm

    When I was 7-8 years old in the mid 50s,I used to sit and watched them all day long as they stopped for coal and water,in 1960,the coal tower became obso and they threw it down with the water tank,sad.

  5. R.L.Kennedy
    March 7, 2014 at 8:16 pm

    Looks like maybe a little extra smoke from the second engine for the photographer! Those hoppers and gons were filled from narrow gauge trains powered by steam dinky engines.

  6. flange bender
    January 16, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    these were the good old days when I spent many hours watching steam engines and have not spent much time watching trains since diesels arrived. I am a steam buff through and through

  7. JP
    July 14, 2015 at 7:39 pm

    Awesome! :D I sure missed out on the best days of railfanning.

  8. switcher
    January 3, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    Hi:

    Do you have a contact email for Bill Thomson?

  9. Stephen C. Host
    January 3, 2016 at 6:14 pm

    Switcher, use the ‘contact’ feature on Bill’s profile (also found on this page beside his name) to send a request.

  10. dhately
    January 31, 2016 at 1:57 pm

    Great photo and an interesting variety of cars for the stone.

  11. lone56wolf
    May 30, 2017 at 1:03 am

    Beautiful! If only…. The location doesn’t look tight though. It may be crossing Hwy 46 were of Kirkfield. Though the angle is right, the crossing of that piece of road was in a light cut

  12. PRR5406
    February 23, 2020 at 1:30 pm

    How sweet is that?
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