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Even in 1978, the crossing protections on Penn Central's Canada Division were unique. So, please forgive the somewhat distant train--I wanted to make sure that I caught the "wig-wag" in the photo! Detroit-Buffalo train 64, the "Niagara Rainbow" somewhere east of St. Thomas behind a former Milwaukee Road E9. (Can anyone out there properly identify the location?)
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Caption: Even in 1978, the crossing protections on Conrail's Canada Division were unique. So, please forgive the somewhat distant train--I wanted to make sure that I caught the "wig-wag" in the photo! Detroit-Buffalo train 64, the "Niagara Rainbow" somewhere east of St. Thomas behind a former Milwaukee Road E9. (Can anyone out there properly identify the location?)

Photographer:
John Eull [424] (more) (contact)
Date: 4/15/1978 (search)
Railway: Amtrak (search)
Reporting Marks: 405 (search)
Train Symbol: 64 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Canada Division (search)
City/Town: east of St. Thomas (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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4 Comments
  1. mile27
    May 3, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    Nice. Neat scene with the swinging banjos.

  2. Jakob Mueller
    May 6, 2021 at 2:24 pm

    I can’t identify the location, but it looks like the same place as this shot: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=22281

  3. terry.oshell
    May 6, 2021 at 8:57 pm

    What a great photo of the wig-wags with their original “Railway Crossing” crossbucks in place. Although I didn’t spend a lot of time on the Caso Sub., in reviewing some of my Signal Plans for wig-wag locations east of St. Thomas and looking at Google Street View I’m thinking this photo may have been taken at Edgeware (Road) Line (42.796396, -81.051755), Mile 108.14 Caso Sub..

  4. Stephen C. Host
    November 29, 2021 at 10:57 am

    I love this John. I shot a pair of wigwags in 2006 but didn’t think to compose it like this at the time. I was amateur :)

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