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On February 13, 2003, a CN train had derailed almost 30 cars of general freight near Gobles, which sits east of Woodstock, Ontario on the CN Dundas Subdivision. Nearby residents were evacuated because the tankers involved were carrying benzene liquid and petroleum gas. Due to this incident and further complications during the clean-up effort, CN detoured some trains over the GEXR Guelph Subdivision between Georgetown and London over several days. 

My photo here shows an afternoon detour CN train 385 going westbound by the Stratford, Ontario station on the GEXR Guelph Subdivision. The lash-up was CN SD70I 5623 and SD75I 5705.
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Caption: On February 13, 2003, a CN train had derailed almost 30 cars of general freight near Gobles, which sits east of Woodstock, Ontario on the CN Dundas Subdivision. Nearby residents were evacuated because the tankers involved were carrying benzene liquid and petroleum gas. Due to this incident and further complications during the clean-up effort, CN detoured some trains over the GEXR Guelph Subdivision between Georgetown and London over several days.
My photo here shows an afternoon detour CN train 385 going westbound by the Stratford, Ontario station on the GEXR Guelph Subdivision. The lash-up was CN SD70I 5623 and SD75I 5705.

Photographer:
Hogger 76 [1] (more) (contact)
Date: February 20, 2003 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 5623 (search)
Train Symbol: CN Detour 385 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: GEXR Guelph Subdivision (search)
City/Town: Stratford (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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5 Comments
  1. Good location to shoot this. Nicely done.

  2. I remember just seeing some of these detours from my high school. No shots unfortunately. Thank you for sharing.

  3. This is awesome. I didn’t chase at this time but I would have been at Kitchener Station to catch some detours. I remember hanging out with some locals shooting the shit on lunch at Kitchener Station during this time watching an eastbound intermodal crawl down the hill into Kitchener, and 433 go on duty.

    Thanks for sharing this great view.

  4. This is a great photo. I remember those detours well.

  5. Certainly appreciate everyone’s comments on my first photo on this website. Cheers!

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