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Caption: Again, I am out on a damp drizzly morning. Waiting up on the hillside at Bayview Jct for something to happen. After an hours' restlessness, along comes this move. CN 2528,2552 with 3 cars and a caboose. Since I do not have any notes from back then regarding trains or train numbers to and from Niagara, I have no idea what this move was. It has been suggested a transfer to the Hamilton yard facility. Sounds right. So why isn't this handled by a couple of SWs as I was used to seeing? Anyway, this is the "train" of the morning, The 2528 became 3538, was sold to NRE...I'm wondering where it is now......the second MLW M-420(W) 2552 was retired in 1984. Why am I out on such a dreary morning? It was my day off work. You take what you can get.
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If what’s left of my memory serves, 442 came out of Hamilton for mac Yard, dropped off it’s load and waited around for a few trailers that came in from Montreal on the tail of 251. We’d hide the power in front of the Administration Building until the hotshot arrived,and cut off its tail end, tack the power on which would back out the York Sub and head home.
forget the M420′s….look at that classic blue Mooney-mobile….the boxy design, souped up carbody, the mag wheels….I can see your black hair slicked back and waving out the window now…
Cool!
Gads. The Snake Bites again. Those, I guess, were the ‘good’ old days…….the greasy ’50s mop is now a shoddy collection of grey follicles with lots of space in which to grow. Too bad they don’t. And too bad the ol’ car went to the scrap in 1993. It would have made a neat hi-rail.
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You guys are funny. This is cool, I would have no doubt this traffic is for the pig ramp at Hamilton, but did they also have a crane on site for containers?
They probably had a side lift truck. Mostly it was pigs; mostly it was 3 GP9′s with high hoods. Time to search the slide collection again.
I keep thinking there was an overhead crane; west end behind the engine house and below Dundurn castle. Check it out, Dave.
) At one time there were a fair number of containers back there.
Cute train.
This is classic. Note the above-ground storage tank (AST) beside the white shack.