Caption: The financial woes of the later 2000’s was felt pretty much everywhere. From what I was told at the time OSR used it’s small group of RS23’s mist of the time then as they were cheaper to operate then the RS18U’s. Fir the most part the daily train to Guelph ran regularly with anything from one to three of the RS23’s. They quickly became my favourite Alco/MLW end cab switcher. The crossing at concession Road 11 north of Moffat soon became my favourite spot to catch the northbound morning train which never worked well with the lighting conditions for most of its run. Here a trio of the RS23 “rockets” dug into the slight grade as they pass through the changing fall colours.