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Time is everything.... …and why waste a precious (film ) frame – on a gray dreary drab January Sunday afternoon? January 1978 Kodak Negative transported in a Nikkormat EL by S.Danko More 1970's Agincourt CPR 4037 CP Rail 4035 December 1978 ..uh oh.. What's interesting: in this b & w shot perhaps eight different locomotive models ( where can you capture that today?) left to right GMD FP7a ( CPR 4037 ) MLW C-424 ( coupled to 4037) three GMD GP7, TH&B 71 - 74 - 75, somewhat unusual as the norm for the TH&B Kinnear / Starlight would be a GP7 – GP9 – GP7 lashup ( 7x - 40x - 7x ) GMD FP7 or FP9 two MLW M636 ( CP Rail 4722 - 47xx ) MLW RS-23 GMD SW9 ( CP Rail 7400 ) MLW (M636 or C-424)? ..glad I did use that ( film ) frame …. not wasted after all....and time is everything.... sdfourty
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Time is everything....

…and why waste a precious (film ) frame – on a gray dreary drab January Sunday afternoon?

January 1978 Kodak Negative transported in a Nikkormat EL by S.Danko

More 1970's Agincourt

CPR 4037

CP Rail 4035

December 1978

..uh oh..

What's interesting:

in this b & w shot perhaps eight different locomotive models ( where can you capture that today?)

left to right

GMD FP7a ( CPR 4037 )

MLW C-424 ( coupled to 4037)

three GMD GP7, TH&B 71 - 74 - 75, somewhat unusual as the norm for the TH&B Kinnear / Starlight would be a GP7 – GP9 – GP7 lashup ( 7x - 40x - 7x )

GMD FP7 or FP9

two MLW M636 ( CP Rail 4722 - 47xx )

MLW RS-23

GMD SW9 ( CP Rail 7400 )

MLW (M636 or C-424)?

..glad I did use that ( film ) frame …. not wasted after all....and time is everything....

sdfourty

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sdfourty [707] (more) (contact)
Date: 01/xx/1978 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CPR 4037 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: CP Rail Agincourt (search)
City/Town: Agincourt (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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  1. snake
    January 7, 2016 at 6:18 pm

    I remember that CP 4037 running around in the old paint then……everyone was always looking for it when it was in the area…
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