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To handle export grain shipments to the Soviet Union, over the 1963-1964 winter CP leased 23 units from U.S. carriers. This included 7 FA1 and 8 FB1 locomotives from Union Pacific (according to the February 1964 issue of Canadian Rail magazine). Here we see an A-B-B set of the UP units leading a westbound freight through Guelph Jct. Now that's FPON!
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Caption: To handle export grain shipments to the Soviet Union, over the 1963-1964 winter CP leased 23 units from U.S. carriers. This included 7 FA1 and 8 FB1 locomotives from Union Pacific (according to the February 1964 issue of Canadian Rail magazine). Here we see an A-B-B set of the UP units leading a westbound freight through Guelph Jct. Now that's FPON!

Photographer:
Doug Page [377] (more) (contact)
Date: 04/00/1964 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: UP 1627 (search)
Train Symbol: westbound (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Guelph Jct. (search)
City/Town: Guelph Jct. (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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3 Comments
  1. mile27
    February 6, 2018 at 6:02 am

    Sweet scene from the distant past. Great set of power that must have sounded so good as they made their way up the escarpment. Thanks for sharing, Doug.

  2. Stephen C. Host
    February 6, 2018 at 8:23 pm

    And an angle from Bill Thomson, similar train:

    http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=16939

  3. RonaldB
    October 27, 2019 at 1:07 am

    An old London hoggers mentioned these a few times, he always recalled as “those dilapidated old crocks”..
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