Caption: So the story goes, for reasons unknown on this day several trains detoured via the CN Guelph Subdivision from their regular Dundas Subdivision routing. My notes indicate that both CN Laser trains 238 and 239 were routed through Kitchener, but they were sent across the line while I was still in school. However, CN 411 was still coming. My friend picked me up once I had gotten home from school and we made a beeline for the station. As we got to Ahrens Street, the crossing became activated and we had no choice but to photograph it on “the wrong side” going by the station.
Here CN 5280, 5098 and a GP40-2L(W) bring a detour 411 by the Kitchener station as it heads west to London over the Guelph Subdivision. If only we had one more minute to get across to the platform that day, but three decades later I’ll take solace in the fact it was at least nose lit.