Railpictures.ca - Doug Page Photo: SW1200RS 8147 and RS23 8026 lead an interesting Extra West through Guelph Junction in the spring of 1964. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

Caption: SW1200RS 8147 and RS23 8026 lead an interesting Extra West through Guelph Junction in the spring of 1964.

Photographer:	Doug Page [377] (more) (contact)
Date:	4/ /1964 (search)
Railway:	Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks:	CP 8147 (search)
Train Symbol:	westbound (search)
Subdivision/SNS:	Guelph Jct (search)
City/Town:	Guelph Jct (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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RonaldB

October 27, 2019 at 12:26 am

I’m not sure what the westbound pig traffic would have been in 1964, but the power is more like what they’d put on the ‘pickup’. Interesting that the units are back to back,the prevailing theory when I started in 1973 was that the “pups” worked better if facing forward, that they might overheat if backing up, that seemed to include RS-23s which seemed to me more or less interchangeable with the SW1200RS on pickup power. That wasn’t applied on the Oakville jobs or the Goderich job though, such units were often back to back.

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RonaldB

October 27, 2019 at 12:26 am

I’m not sure what the westbound pig traffic would have been in 1964, but the power is more like what they’d put on the ‘pickup’. Interesting that the units are back to back,the prevailing theory when I started in 1973 was that the “pups” worked better if facing forward, that they might overheat if backing up, that seemed to include RS-23s which seemed to me more or less interchangeable with the SW1200RS on pickup power. That wasn’t applied on the Oakville jobs or the Goderich job though, such units were often back to back.