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Caption: The weekend of October 13-14, 1962 provided railfans in the Montreal area with two excursions out of Central Station behind two steam locomotives. The Saturday trip would be led by J-4-d Pacific 5107, and the Sunday trip double headed with 5107 and U-2-c 6153. These trips run by the Canadian Railroad Historical Association were supported by the Upper Canada Railway Society.
CNR 5107 is seen in front of the St-Hyacinthe station during the last water stop of the evening, giving photographers the opportunity for night shots. The six car train had departed Central station track 9 that morning at 0829h making a water stop here at St. Hyacinthe, as well as at Richmond, and three photo runpasts. One more runpast would be held between Richmond and Sherbrooke before turning the train for the return to Montreal, stopping for three more runpasts and water on the way. Back in Montreal, 5107 would be cut off at Bridge Street, leaving the consist in the care of MLW S4 8062 for the last couple of miles into Central Station. Today, CNR 5107 is on display in Kapuskasing. Bill Thomson caught 5107 at Mimico in the summer of 1958.
Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.
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What a sharp slide for a night exposure. Good stuff
A master at work. Well done, John.
I love the folks on the platform. Standing so still too! Most of them anyway…. could some of this have become a self timed portrait by chance? Not knowing the tech of the day could you walk away from the shot?
Stephen, couldn’t leave the camera which was set up on a tripod. Unsophisticated technology sixty years ago, held down the exposure button and counted some seconds . . . “A thousand and one, a thousand and two. . .”., probably a 3 or 4 second exposure, no manual suggestions, just “by guess and by God”. No flash, just what ever lighting was available. So no self timed “selfie” portrait. The five “frozen in time” figures to the right seemed to be more interested in the antics of the “night” photographers than the 5107, at least for the time being.All too soon had to be back on the train, John
Thanks for your comments, much appreciated and glad to be able to share what I was lucky enough to be able to photograph over half a century ago . . . Where has the time gone ! Thank you Jacob for cleaning up the image and your professional scanning skill, John