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If you missed CP on the St. Thomas Subdivision in 2009 or earlier, this is your next closest thing, they look CP, GP9's were every day assignments on the line, so you can't get more back to the future than this on the St. Thomas Sub. A rare Saturday extra for OSR meant I spent the morning chasing this St. Thomas job capturing photos like it was 2004 all over again. This scene at Ferguson line is one of my favourites.
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Caption: If you missed CP on the St. Thomas Subdivision in 2009 or earlier, this is your next closest thing, they look CP, GP9's were every day assignments on the line, so you can't get more back to the future than this on the St. Thomas Sub. A rare Saturday extra for OSR meant I spent the morning chasing this St. Thomas job capturing photos like it was 2004 all over again. This scene at Ferguson line is one of my favourites.

Photographer:
Stephen C. Host [1535] (more) (contact)
Date: 11/7/2020 (search)
Railway: Ontario Southland (search)
Reporting Marks: OSR 8235,1591 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: St. Thomas Subdiivsion (search)
City/Town: St. Thomas (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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9 Comments
  1. Stephen C. Host
    May 11, 2021 at 9:33 pm

    Two things: osr was moving propane to dealers for winter corn drying which keeps the line busy all winter long.

    Secondly what the heck is growing at right in November????

  2. jknott86
    May 11, 2021 at 10:08 pm

    Winter wheat likely

  3. jknott86
    May 11, 2021 at 10:11 pm

    It is sowed the season before and germinates in the fall and overwinters for next season

  4. Stephen C. Host
    May 12, 2021 at 9:04 am

    Wow thank you James. That’s interesting.

  5. jknott86
    May 12, 2021 at 1:36 pm

    Always happy to talk crops.

  6. Stephen C. Host
    May 14, 2021 at 7:42 pm

    Fyi all a snowplow in same spot:

    http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=13936

  7. Aitch
    August 9, 2021 at 9:12 pm

    Wow, that’s just stellar !

  8. railwayguy
    November 21, 2021 at 10:30 am

    Ahh Mr. Host, another of your beautiful bucolic rural pictures capturing the very essence of branchline/shortline railroading. So nicely framed between the silver silo on the right and the red painted shed on the left, and, love the red on the ex-CPR GP9 matching the colour of the shed. Thank you for posting, John

  9. Stephen C. Host
    November 21, 2021 at 10:46 am

    I do enjoy Branchline railroading. I also spent quite a bit of time on this Branchline in the CP days… so I’m a sucker for these colours on this line.

    Speaking of which, OSR is running a propane extra with these engines again… today through this very spot.
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