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...certainly a different era... A trio of SOO Line SD40-2 : CP Rail extra SOO 6616 West prepares to receive train orders by Operator's hoop at Guelph Junction , August 31, 1985 Kodachrome by S.Danko Anyone able to identify the CP Rail Guelph Jct Operator? More train orders by hoop Bolton 1978 sdfourty
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...certainly a different era...

A trio of SOO Line SD40-2 : CP Rail extra SOO 6616 West prepares to receive train orders by Operator's hoop

at Guelph Junction , August 31, 1985 Kodachrome by S.Danko

Anyone able to identify the CP Rail Guelph Jct Operator?

More train orders by hoop

Bolton

1978

sdfourty

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Date: 31/08/1985 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: SOO Line 6616 (search)
Train Symbol: CP Rail Soo Line 6616 Extra West (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Guelph Junction (search)
City/Town: Guelph Junction (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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2 Comments
  1. RonaldB
    October 10, 2020 at 7:07 pm

    That operator may be Norm Farmer.He later became an RTC NGF, (aka ‘no good farmer’ to some crews, although he was a really good dispatcher)

  2. RonaldB
    October 10, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    I’d have to look at my saved train orders & timetables from that era, because upon reflection, I think Farmer may already have been an RTC by 1985.
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