|
Caption: While waiting for the late afternoon TH&B "Starlite" to be put together for the run back to Toronto, I wandered over to Chatham St to see what was going on. Off the Dundurn St bridge at the wye I had a quick opportunity to catch "all" the action in one image. In the foreground is a quartet of GPs, rear one looks to be a 7 and the middle two are B units, with cabs removed. In the background is the power off the Goderich turn, also moving on the wye. That set consists of CP 8483, 8476 and 4466. Power for Starlite is PC 8100, 3800, 3819 and 5829; with the 8100 as leader when the train finally headed out near sunset .
|
If those are ex-PRR GP9B’s in the middle, they never had cabs to begin with!
Was that a TH&B yard back then? I like seeing the several different schemes.
Thanks for this, Mr. Berry. I had always thought those B units were an afterthought.
Union Pacific was the only other buyer of the GP9B. PRR pretty much bought at least one of everything from every builder during the first generation, so that they had GP9B’s is no surprise, but a beauty catch at Chatham St. RS-10′s and an FA in the background, nice touch!
CdnTrainPhotog: That’s the Waterford sub in the foreground – double track CTC mainline of the TH&B which connected to the Station Terminal at Hunter St via the tunnel.
The CP train is on the section of track CP built as a ‘cutoff’ to join the TH&B to the CN Oakville subdivision, eventually extending north to Guelph Junction.
So no, it’s not a yard, it’s in fact a meeting of two trains each on mainline track, in this photo.
At least that’s my understanding.
Perhaps I should have clarified the location pictured as ‘the throat’ of the yard.