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Caption: Back in what I like to call 'heady days' of passenger trains for me to photograph, we see CP 1406 ready to depart northward to Sudbury where this train would meet up with #1-11 out of Montreal and combine to become #1,westward to Vancouver. The "Canadian" ran daily. At the time, CN's counterpart, "The Super Continental", also crossed Canada daily. Not quite a year previously from the date of this photo VIA was formed, and in October of '76 the first CN-CP joint timetable under "VIA" came into being. And the slashing of duplication began.................
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You can tell CP had lost interest in the passenger train. The locomotive is very grubby looking although just departing from Toronto. A decade earlier the whole consist shone when leaving.
Hey Mr Mooney. That might be me standing there. In 77 I used to go there quite often.. Bruce
That would be ‘something’. You have a jacket like that? Then maybe it was you. Stranger coincidences have happened….
I’d say that looks like a young Bruce Acheson!!! Nice find…