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The front end must be pretty heavy, that’s a lot of seniority riding on the footboard and in the stepwell. The other amazing item is it looks like a 4 man crew. Pretty rare in 1995 I would think. Although, the guy on the footboard has no radio, so maybe he’s just catching a ride. Scenes like this really make me miss my time at CN.
This is a very nice late afternoon shot – Trees have grown in on either side of the bridge making it much harder to find an angle especially one not so wide. Thank you for sharing.
Is this 1995? By the looks of the cars..it looks more like 85. Great shot, brother used to live up the tracks on Cardigan. At the time I wondered who serviced the track.
I’m going along with Brad on this. Not only does the CTG state 8108 became 1276 in 3/1985; the date 1995 would suggest there sure were a lot of people driving around in old crates.:o)
Bill’s just submitted a date revision – it should be June 1st 1984, rather than 1995.
That engine is backing up. Nobody would be riding that way if it was running forward. Four man crew is correct. Conductor and two brakemen/trainmen plus engineer.
Well that was an era – pre HH mind you – that they used to do deemed unsafe practices like ‘kick’ cars. So maybe they were breaking the *rules*?
These gentlemen are not breaking any rules for the time. The man on the left would be breaking the rules in coming years as they banned employees from riding these platforms and the company would remove said platforms from their units that had them.
As for kicking cars, it is not an unsafe practice, it’s “the preferred way to switch” as per a company bulletin from a couple years ago. Perhaps you are confusing kicking cars with a running switch or “dropping a car”.
This is the Guelph Yard job. It was the only one on the division at this point that had two helpers with the Yard Foreman.