Caption: The first time I would see this pair working together was on a GEXR plow extra - which I was wholly unprepared to chase, back on February 7 2007. I don't know what possessed me to do it - the weather was atrocious, but I managed some interesting photos despite the lighting and my trusty 'ol white Tercel. I posted many of these photos here on rp.ca a few years back: click here and here and here

Plows were infrequent back then (Except that week - both GEXR plows were in service - two on a single day were possible on the same railway!) and other priorities got the best of me in the coming years, but by 2009 - 1400 and 1401 were in a deadline, pilfered of parts and looking like they were about to be scrapped. Enter OSR. We know the story from here - but when I heard that these two would be plowing together, again, I had to make time for this.

Pictured above, two very clean engines and a pristine plow, fresh from the warm bosom of the Salford Shops and not a lick of snow on the equipment - yet. Next stop - McDonalds in Tillsonburg.