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Between Ashcroft and Walhachin, and just a short distance west of the west siding switch at Semlin on Thursday 1987-05-21, an eastward train with CP 5855 + 5951 + robot car 1026 + two more SD40-2s is stretched out along the Thompson River as it passes long-standing glacial remnants at mileage 39.7. Semlin was named after area businessman Charles Semlin, and a good history of him is available at .
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Caption: Between Ashcroft and Walhachin, and just a short distance west of the west siding switch at Semlin on Thursday 1987-05-21, an eastward train with CP 5855 + 5951 + robot car 1026 + two more SD40-2s is stretched out along the Thompson River as it passes long-standing glacial remnants at mileage 39.7.

Semlin was named after area businessman Charles Semlin, and a good history of him is available at .

Photographer:
Ken Perry [196] (more) (contact)
Date: 1987-05-21 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CP 5855 (search)
Train Symbol: Intermodal East (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Thompson sub. (39.7) (search)
City/Town: Semlin (search)
Province: British Columbia (search)
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3 Comments
  1. Ken Perry
    September 17, 2023 at 4:05 pm

    My last sentence was intended to be “Semlin was named after area businessman Charles Semlin, and a good history of him is available at https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/18848.html.”

  2. mile27
    September 17, 2023 at 9:19 pm

    Very nice, Ken.

  3. dhaisell
    September 22, 2023 at 10:39 pm

    5855 looks like it can only be a day old. Hardly a stain on it.
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