Railpictures.ca - Geoff Elliott Photo: Faces of change sit in the sanding tracks at the old C&O engine service facility in Chatham, Ontario back in 1995. The 7897 was in town as it had come over on an empty grain extra that was delivered to W.G. Thompson in Blenheim. The local crew brought the unit back to Chatham for ‘safe keeping’ I guess. In 1995 it was nice to shoot the big CSX GE’s as they were still ‘the new thing’ at the time. Today I could care less about seeing another GE, and would pay good money to shoot a nice set of GP’s on a road train……. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

Faces of change sit in the sanding tracks at the old C&O engine service facility in Chatham, Ontario back in 1995. The 7897 was in town as it had come over on an empty grain extra that was delivered to W.G. Thompson in Blenheim. The local crew brought the unit back to Chatham for 'safe keeping' I guess. In 1995 it was nice to shoot the big CSX GE's as they were still 'the new thing' at the time. Today I could care less about seeing another GE, and would pay good money to shoot a nice set of GP's on a road train.......

Caption: Faces of change sit in the sanding tracks at the old C&O engine service facility in Chatham, Ontario back in 1995. The 7897 was in town as it had come over on an empty grain extra that was delivered to W.G. Thompson in Blenheim. The local crew brought the unit back to Chatham for 'safe keeping' I guess. In 1995 it was nice to shoot the big CSX GE's as they were still 'the new thing' at the time. Today I could care less about seeing another GE, and would pay good money to shoot a nice set of GP's on a road train.......

Photographer:	Geoff Elliott [773] (more) (contact)
Date:	06/15/1995 (search)
Railway:	CSX Transportation (search)
Reporting Marks:	CSX 7897 and 2012 (search)
Train Symbol:	Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS:	Not Provided
City/Town:	Chatham (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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headtailgrep

April 28, 2014 at 11:27 am

It’s interesting to note that despite the isolation of CSX post April 1996 these WG Thompson grain extras occurred into 2005 and often warranted a pair of AC4400′s or SD40-2′s brought over from Detroit – so the ‘big power’ continued to make an appearance until the last minute..

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headtailgrep

April 28, 2014 at 11:27 am

It’s interesting to note that despite the isolation of CSX post April 1996 these WG Thompson grain extras occurred into 2005 and often warranted a pair of AC4400′s or SD40-2′s brought over from Detroit – so the ‘big power’ continued to make an appearance until the last minute..