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MLW 1968 built C-630M 4505 is certainly different power for today's The Push,
and somewhat unusual being a Saturday, The Push was more commonly called Monday to Friday.
normal The Push power would be either an S-2 such at 7063 or a RS-10 or whatever was available....
Note the head end Brakeman standing the front doorway, awaiting the arrival of an eastbound.
At CP Rail Leaside, January 13, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
More The Push
CP Toronto Region, 'The Push' was common up to the early 1980's. The name was assigned by the North Toronto Subdivision / Belleville (Toronto Region) Dispatcher and /or the Agincourt Yard Coordinator and both would regularly use the radio call - 'The Push' to the CP crew handling the engine(s) that was tasked with assisting trains up the hill from Leaside through Don Mills to Kennedy and Agincourt yard. The assists I saw were pulls verses pushes..nevertheless....CP regularly maxed out the first generation locomotive(s) tonnage. Other The Push duties included transferring power between Agincourt, Lambton and John Street. After the John Street roundhouse ceased servicing diesel locomotives, and prior to VIA (October 1978) The Push regular evening assignment was to move The Canadian power (usually a single F unit such as 4066, on occasion a 1400 series) to Agincourt.
The Push in action:
The Push
sdfourty
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On one trip, I was tail end brakeman on a train that needed a “push” & on that day the power was 8921 by itself. They tacked onto the rear of our van and I decide I would be safer riding 8921 until he was ready to cut off (on the fly, I might add). I had visions of that beast squashing our old 4000 series ‘van’ about halfway up the hill. As it turned out, nothing untoward happened.