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Nice scene, John, and lots of details. The empty semaphore mast with CTC signals in the distance, commuters moving down the platform, with one making a last minute call from the phone booth. Plus the yellow guard “rails” seen at left that used to be seen everywhere.
Very nice. I wonder how often the GT’s were on these trains back then? I find it strange the GT’s were around, then that stopped only to have them come back out for the laser and on locals in the late 2010′s… you didn’t see GT power on locals in the 90′s?
I’ve seen a Peter McGouch shot of a GT black GP9 parked with this train at CN Guelph Jct.
4702 is even more odd and rare in that it’s 1) a freight unit, and not one of the normal steam generator equipped passenger GTW 4900′s that frequented the Maple Leaf, and 2) it’s a GP18, a model that didn’t frequent Canada much (most of the GTW 4900′s were GP9′s).
CN/GTW had GP18′s???????????
Correct Stefan, GTW had GP18 freight service units 4700-4707, and it looks like they did have three passenger GP18 units numbered 4950-4952. All EMD-built, as GMD kept building the GP9 model for Canadian railways until the GP30 model (skipping the GP18 and GP20).