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What a beautiful image. Like many of us, I know the spot well. All the years of tall grasses and now everywhere along the right of way its weeds weeds and more tall annoying weeds. I really miss landscapes like this. THANKS for your fine efforts, John….and Jacob.
Fantastic photo John.
A well maintained right of way. Even the MacPherson farm looks really nice too.
Ya, could you imagine, Steve? Going out anywhere like that and not having a single bush in the way? Utopia.
I find American rights of way to be like that….
What i’m still interested in, is if in 1966, there were signals at Puslinch…. because that would make this set only a few hundred meters away…
That “A” on the signal mast should make this an Absolute signal… that would make this the east signal for Puslinch, would it not?
To Jacob’s question, I’m a bit confused also. Before I started on CP in 1973, most signals at sidings were at the switch only. There were no dwarf signals at many locations. This represented a bit of a safety hazard. Orr’s Lake was the last holdout without dwarf signals & that was the case well after I signed on. To illustrate the risk, if a westbound pulled into the siding and stopped clear of the main track at the west end, the eastbound train would have a clear signal if the tail end of the westbound was clear & the switch restored BUT, if the tail end cleared the eastward signal at the east end, the signal would clear even if the van was foul. The eastbound’s indication at the west end would be red, proceed at restricted speed. It was possible with the van still foul, for the eastbound to see the green light behind said van & assume they had cleared. The signals in this photo could be the east switch Puslinch. To clarify, each end of the siding would have only two signals one facing each way near the switch points, no dwarf signals, no signals at the clearing point. This looks like that setup. The signals leaving the siding on main or passing track were A signals, the others were not.
I found a photo of the east end of Puslinch on Ray Kennedy’s Old Time Trains site from 1957 & it looks like the signal setup I described was in place at the east end of Puslinch, not sure when it was upgraded to have signals at all fouling points.
Great shot!
Makes sense. As always, thank you for the great details, Ron.
This one Ron?
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR_London/1406.jpg
That’s the one Stephen. You’ll notice, no dwarf signal in the siding & no main track signal near the locomotive. I do wonder why the signal in this photo above seems a bit far from the siding switch though. The signal is an “absolute” with the “A” plate so it can’t be an intermediate signal, must be the one for the east siding switch.