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Caption: CPR MLW S11 6617 was assigned as the Guelph yard switcher during the summer of 1972, seen here on the Fibreglass Spur, just south of Alice Street alongside the engine house. Shortly, the crew will be onboard, and headed down to the Fiberglas Canada Inc. facility. Fibreglas Canada Inc. became Owens Corning Canada Inc. in September, 1989, and the facility is still served today by the GEXR. The engine house was demolished in the late 1970s.
Donald Coulman Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.
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Nice. Neat scene.
This is very nice.
This photo reminds me of an incident in my first week of railroading on CP in june 1973. I was sent from London to Guelph Jct to fill a vacancy on the 1500 roadswitcher. That job ran up to Guelph & did the industrial switching & brought the traffic back to the Jct to be lifted. The Guelph Yard engine was sitting on the track into the shop. We had to grab it as it had to go to Toronto for service. I couple on & released the handbrake. The engine then rolled into the shop doors & ‘stretched’ them to the linit, bending the handrails back.The old Conductor used to be a boxer & had a temper. I think he was considering clocking me, but cooler heads prevailed.
I forgot to mention that I had not stretched the joint on the yard engine, and assumed it had couple when I released the handbrake.
Now onto point 2. This shot was taken from a point between Alice Street the bunkhouse. It used to be closer to the road. If you look for (I believe) the last house backing up against the ‘north’ wye track on Sackville Street, near where it meets the main track, there is a small home there, which is the remodelled bunkhouse building.
A very historical photo for sure.