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Late in the day on a UCRS trip, a trio of RDCs (CN 6116, CN 6003, CN 6120) are seen moving away from the photographer during a photo run by on the Drumbo sub at Bright. The trip ran from Toronto - London via the Oakville and Dundas subdivisions to reach the GMD plant for a tour. Following the tour, the trip departed London for Hyde Park, taking the Exeter Sub north to Clinton and on to Goderich. Returning to Stratford, via the Drumbo sub to Paris, and back to Toronto.
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Caption: Late in the day on a UCRS trip, a trio of RDCs (CN 6116, CN 6003, CN 6120) are seen moving away from the photographer during a photo run by on the Drumbo sub at Bright. The trip ran from Toronto - London via the Oakville and Dundas subdivisions to reach the GMD plant for a tour. Following the tour, the trip departed London for Hyde Park, taking the Exeter Sub north to Clinton and on to Goderich. Returning to Stratford, via the Drumbo sub to Paris, and back to Toronto.

Photographer:
Bruce Acheson [130] (more) (contact)
Date: 09/13/1975 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 6116, CN 6003, CN 6120 (search)
Train Symbol: Extra 6116 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Drumbo Subdivision (search)
City/Town: Bright (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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7 Comments
  1. Stephen C. Host
    February 20, 2022 at 6:55 pm

    Man by 1975 this line was lucky to have a train a week. Like 50 to 150 cars a year.

  2. Stephen C. Host
    February 20, 2022 at 6:59 pm

    How many crew would have manned this train? As in how many crew changes were needed to cover the territory?

  3. Jacob Patterson
    February 20, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    Thanks to Dan Dell’Unto for helping with the location. Great scene Bruce. Not many shots here from the Drumbo Sub.

  4. bruce
    February 20, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    I think it was a crew of 3. I think there were no crew changes. I think if I am not mistaken on this trip we were going up the Dundas hill at roughly 90 miles per and one engine was cut out.

  5. Stephen C. Host
    February 20, 2022 at 11:09 pm

    Wild to think they were probably qualified for all of it, given how passenger trains operated from Toronto to Goderich it’s certainly very possible. It wasn’t too long before all those trains ran.

    Thanks Bruce – a wonderful shot. I’ve been here many times…. without any sign of the rails :)

  6. Noe
    February 24, 2022 at 10:32 am

    A very historic photo.

  7. RonaldB
    December 26, 2023 at 11:12 pm

    I was on a westbound CP train not long before the CN Drumbo Sub was abandoned & a CN train was waiting for us to pass at the diamond in Drumbo. It was comprised of an SW1200RS, a caboose & a business car, they were headed for Stratford. By that point, all CN trains had to stop & flag the diamond before crossing CP. In the years before,from the time I started on CP in 1973, it was an automatic interlocking.
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