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A Doug Lawson slide. Looking for all the world like fish in a tank, a gaggle of MLW and GMD noses are staring each other down, in between runs during the busy holiday time. Spadina was fan-friendly, as long as you didn't you over-step your bounds. In a few years it would disappear when the ball stadium SkyDome was built. The cab units would begin retirement after the late 1980s, a combination of cutbacks and the new F40s.
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Caption: A Doug Lawson slide. Looking for all the world like fish in a tank, a gaggle of MLW and GMD noses are staring each other down, in between runs during the busy holiday time. Spadina was fan-friendly, as long as you didn't you over-step your bounds. In a few years it would disappear when the ball stadium SkyDome was built. The cab units would begin retirement after the late 1980s, a combination of cutbacks and the new F40s.

Photographer:
Bruce Mercer collection [100] (more) (contact)
Date: 12/28/1982 (search)
Railway: VIA Rail (search)
Reporting Marks: assorted (search)
Train Symbol: n/a (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CN Spadina shop (search)
City/Town: Toronto (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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5 Comments
  1. Jacob Patterson
    April 6, 2017 at 4:18 pm

    This is great!

  2. Eric May
    April 6, 2017 at 8:06 pm

    Wow. I found out about the ease of access at Spadina too late.

  3. PRR5406
    October 6, 2019 at 9:23 am

    What a wonderful chance to study FPA7′s versus the more elegant FPA4′s. FIne shot taken at the last moments of passenger grandeur.

  4. fiddler
    January 13, 2020 at 10:34 am

    Nice shot but can’t understand this love affair some have with MLW F units.I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder so if you like chunky bodies,poor welds,mixture of sharp lines ( headlight bezel ) and curves,ungainly ‘fenders’ and overall asymetrics then have at it and keep up your love affair with these units.I think it is an eastern thing for some reason but to each their own,I guess.

  5. NiagaraMike11
    January 23, 2022 at 9:13 pm

    A staff meeting on the Island of Sodor-wheres Thomas !
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