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Long before DPU's.... Remote controlled MLW 1973 built M-636 #47 (ex CN 2312) handles tail end braking duties, for a typical 132 car iron concentrate train... at Able, mile 9.2 South Subdivision Cartier Railway (QCM) June 8, 1981 Kodachrome by S.Danko head end sdfourty
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Long before DPU's....

Remote controlled MLW 1973 built M-636 #47 (ex CN 2312) handles tail end braking duties,

for a typical 132 car iron concentrate train...

at Able, mile 9.2 South Subdivision Cartier Railway (QCM)

June 8, 1981 Kodachrome by S.Danko

head end

sdfourty

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Date: 06/08/1981 (search)
Railway: Cartier (search)
Reporting Marks: QCM 47 (search)
Train Symbol: QCM 71 south (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Able (search)
City/Town: Able (search)
Province: Quebec (search)
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2 Comments
  1. Driver8666
    March 15, 2025 at 3:41 pm

    Does that signal mast have a light on the bottom?

  2. Stephen C. Host
    March 18, 2025 at 10:57 am

    Those ore cars sure are neat. A not often photographed railroad.
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