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Caption: Canadian Pacific MLW S3 6550, sporting a pair of white extra flags, comes off the CP Canpa Sub with a short local job entering CN's Oakville Sub at the Canpa interlocking (note the brick Canpa tower in the background, governing CN and CP traffic). CP had a longstanding agreement with CN for running rights over the Oakville Sub between downtown Toronto (Bathurst St./Cabin D) and Hamilton Junction, and CP locals often came from West Toronto/Lambton Yard area down the Canpa to work some of the joint-section industries along the Oakville Sub, as well as interchange cars with CN at their Mimico Yard (the trailing steel CN ice reefer and 40' boxcar might be interchange traffic for CN).
It took a bit of love to coax some colour and contrast back into this old faded Eddie Blacks colour slide. No date or date stamp was visible, but it was likely taken sometime in the late 1950's to early 1960's.
Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.
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Nice restoration on this. A great scene.
Very nice.
The signal looks new. That might be a way to narrow down the date.
I reviewed some signal circuit plans for Canpa dated 08/15/1952. I also have a trade publication article dated May 1953 describing the recent installation of “two extensive electric interlockings controlled from one machine” at the entrances to Mimico Yard. I hope this helps.
Thanks Terry, it makes me think mid-late 50′s if the signals still look new, as CP 6550 was built by MLW in 1956 and looks like it may have seen a bit of service.