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Caption: On a frigid March morning when it was far too cold to snow, GO 710 is seen trundling eastward through the USRC on Track E5. Seconds later it will pass the standby train, GO E123, most of whose crew is nestled comfortably in their cab car waiting to be called into action. GO 632 and 633 work their hardest to ascend the grade towards Danforth. This is their second of four climbs of the day; having departed Willowbrook at 0452 that morning, the consist was just five hours into its nearly 20 hour day. It would not return until after midnight.
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Know why there was two engines? The couple of times I’ve shot GO Transit I only saw that happen once with the MP40′s.
Michael, GO runs often with two engines, even with MP40′s. There was one such set running around about a week ago.
Ok, I saw probably close to a dozen trainsets last December with MP40′s and they all were single units.
When locomotives are new and after certain maintenance is performed on them, they are required to spend a certain number of miles and hours in operation as pictured to evaluate the new equipmentr or work and in case of failure. Depending on the arrival of new equipment and the speed at which larger maintenance projects are being completed, you’ll see 1-2 2L10 consists running most days of the week.
While it is the norm to have them running, 2L10 consists are usually used on shorter runs – that this consist went onto a 20 hour cycle is less usual.