Railpictures.ca - Doug Lawson Photo: On hazy summer day at Chatham, shot of a westbound train at Chatham station. Quite an assortment of power on this train, NS 8020, NS 6182, NW 8080, 1792 and 1627. Recent contact with Bruce Mercer and he suggests that this is train NW 27 and various explanations of why there might be so many locomotives leading this train. All in all it was a good day to be trackside at the station. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

On hazy summer day at Chatham, shot of a westbound train at Chatham station. Quite an assortment of power on this train, NS 8020, NS 6182, NW 8080, 1792 and 1627. Recent contact with Bruce Mercer and he suggests that this is train NW 27 and various explanations of why there might be so many locomotives leading this train. All in all it was a good day to be trackside at the station.

Caption: On hazy summer day at Chatham, shot of a westbound train at Chatham station. Quite an assortment of power on this train, NS 8020, NS 6182, NW 8080, 1792 and 1627. Recent contact with Bruce Mercer and he suggests that this is train NW 27 and various explanations of why there might be so many locomotives leading this train. All in all it was a good day to be trackside at the station.

Photographer:	Doug Lawson [248] (more) (contact)
Date:	08/??/1985 (search)
Railway:	Norfolk Southern (search)
Reporting Marks:	NS 8020 (search)
Train Symbol:	NW 27 (search)
Subdivision/SNS:	CN Chatham sub (search)
City/Town:	Chatham (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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Stephen C. Host

March 8, 2019 at 9:30 am

If I may – while I wasn’t there in 1985. But in the last years of NS in Ontario if NS ran an extra train (Train 99/98), or they had extra power from a 343/344, or 328 did not run the day before, they could lash more than two units to return them on a eastbound to Buffalo. I presume this also happened on westbounds out of St. Thomas when they still ran. (344/343 ended January 2004).

I never did see 343/344 in the flesh but this regularly happened on NS 328 ex St. Thomas. I suspect this is the opposite on a 27 (which became 343) ex St. Thomas.
Noe

March 8, 2019 at 2:17 pm

Great image! The old Coke and Pepsi signs in the background add to it too.

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Stephen C. Host

March 8, 2019 at 9:30 am

If I may – while I wasn’t there in 1985. But in the last years of NS in Ontario if NS ran an extra train (Train 99/98), or they had extra power from a 343/344, or 328 did not run the day before, they could lash more than two units to return them on a eastbound to Buffalo. I presume this also happened on westbounds out of St. Thomas when they still ran. (344/343 ended January 2004).

I never did see 343/344 in the flesh but this regularly happened on NS 328 ex St. Thomas. I suspect this is the opposite on a 27 (which became 343) ex St. Thomas.

Noe

March 8, 2019 at 2:17 pm

Great image! The old Coke and Pepsi signs in the background add to it too.