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Caption: Back to my oldies yeah, not that long ago.. but a pair of EMD SD60's lead Norfolk Southern's St. Thomas, Ontario to Buffalo, NY train 328 at Hamilton, long before the thought of a new GO station that completely obliterated the scene you see here. This was six months after getting my Digital SLR and I was well on my way to learn how to compose a passable image. Trust me, there were mistakes, but little gems like this make it all worthwhile. While only two years remained for NS trains into Ontario - NS H3R (Buffalo NY to Fort Erie, ON) continues to this very day with the same St. Thomas based (Wabash) crews. Youngins are advised to head to Fort Erie to get it while you can - your time machine awaits!
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Interesting there is a CN geep down by the shops at the far left….
Also note the green Terra Transport shipping container just below the CN geep.
I think I see an RLK SW1200 in the yard as well. Start at the NS power, and go up the train until you see the first blue boxcar. Look just above it. It is between the 2 blue center beam cars.
Also on the track immediately to the left of the blue center beams mentioned above, there is another RLK GP9.
Lots of power in the yard that day. Awesome!
David, CN and SOR co-operated on the Steel Train which resulted in one or two CN engines being ‘assigned’ to SOR most of the time.
And they weren’t always used on the steel train.. finding a CN engine on a SOR local was quite common in those days.
As for the plethora of power, it was indeed a very power flush operation compared to today, easily twice the motive power, most jobs had two engines, where now, most jobs have only one.
Most of the RLHH motive power from this period would be scrapped or sold by 2012 in a final act of brilliance by Rail America.
Steve, thanks for the info. I do recall CN power on the steel train now. Infact I shot the Steel train at Bayview at the ’07 Bayview Meet. Thanks for the reminder! I didn’t know they used the power on the locals….
Nice Steve. FYI – the NS Buffalo to Fort Erie turn changed from H3R to H53 a couple years ago… and is still occasionally referred to as “the Wabash” on the radio in Buffalo!
sorry it’s hard to keep track sometimes
the “wabash” boys are the only Buffalo terminal men on the wabash collective agreement, and within the ranks of st. thomas there were blet and utu members (two unions!)
… there are probably a couple dozen agrements in effect in the buffalo terminal. so confusing but it is the reason H53 still exists.