Caption: Time machines don’t exist. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t feel like you’re in one. Three decades ago, I was never able to photograph CN 421 passing the original CN Baden sign in the town of Baden on the Guelph Subdivision. Those trains would have been powered on many evenings by GP40-2L(W)’s as they were leading many of the 421’s I photographed in Kitchener during 1993.
Flash-forward almost 30 years later and although times have changed, they can also still seem to remain exactly the same. Here, now downgraded to local service, CN GP40-2L(W) 9416 leads CN L568 by the immaculately modern CN Baden sign on a gorgeous winter’s afternoon.