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Caption: Just before midnight on March 1, 1978, N&W 2704 and 2702 led a train eastbound out of the tunnel under the Welland Canal, running over to CN Robbins where the junction with CN is. For some unknown reason the N&W train missed the stop signal, striking an eastbound CN freight 46 cars back on the 81 car train, derailing 15 CN cars of flour, autos and rubber. A couple of trailers on flats as well of the N&W power left the rails. This photo, taken the next afternoon, shows heavy cranes working to upright the damaged locomotives while the topsy-turvy signal tower bases overlook the scene.
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Hmm what’s in the box? Record players?? and a Rock Island trailer no less!
Making me jealous again, great shot as always!
Yeah, right, Mr. H.T.Grep. When the stylus wears out while playing my old 78s, I just chuck the machine and open up another box. Sh-h-h-h…don’t tell anybody…
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Thanks,Marcus; but would you care that I am jealous of anyone who can stay up as late as 1:10 in the morning just to write on RP.ca ??
I guess that train was headed for the N&W intermodal yard in Dain City. That RIZ (Rock Island) piggy back would be a load that Tallman Transport or maybe Laidlaw wouldn’t get to haul to Toronto. That was a major import route back then. The loads started in Seattle and went, I think, Milwaukee to Chicago and then N&W to Buffalo and thence to Dain City. The loads were hauled to Toronto by truck.
And the lack of a direct rail route by the N&W to Toronto resulted in the eventual demise of the Dain City operation, I suppose.
It’s amazing the Dain City intermodal yard and associated NS trains lasted as long as they did – into what, 1998 or 1999? Imagine if the NS built a larger intermodal yard in Canada – they would probably still be here…
CN E077594 (E3531) (RC10771) was a Pettibone model 220 RRC (110 ton capacity), serial number unknown, built in 1977.
I last saw it at the CN Work Equipment repair facility in Transcona, MB on December 11, 2002, as seen here;
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6197