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Back in the day when Canadian Pacific shared the switching of the Ford plant in Oakville their SW1200RS units mingled freely as seen here.
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Caption: Back in the day when Canadian Pacific shared the switching of the Ford plant in Oakville their SW1200RS units mingled freely as seen here.

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Glenn Courtney [225] (more) (contact)
Date: 07/30/1989 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CP 1269 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
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City/Town: Oakville (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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9 Comments
  1. dhately
    March 27, 2016 at 11:32 am

    CP and CN units together: always a rare event

  2. Eric May
    March 27, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    Although they are the same model, the CP units have longer exhaust stacks.

  3. lostshoeranch
    March 27, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    Those were some of the good ol’ days for Oakville. There was also the CPR Ford Turn that came in the evenings to Oakville yard from Agincourt. It was a busy place back in the 80′s- earlly 90′s. The action was non-stop.

  4. ngineered4u
    March 27, 2016 at 11:33 pm

    Actua;;y what was cool about working at Oakville before CN took over the whole operation was that whenever we showed up for work we took whatever power was first up on the shoptrack. It did not matter who’s power was used to switch.

  5. BradKetchen
    March 28, 2016 at 8:26 am

    http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2862621
    Similar but better than my attempt back in the day. :)

  6. ngineered4u
    March 28, 2016 at 5:22 pm

    Ahhh great memories!

  7. Stephen C. Host
    March 29, 2016 at 10:09 am

    Thanks for sharing. This is one memory I have as a kid driving by on the QEW ….. seeing the copious amounts of CN/CP switchers on the shop track.

    When did CP stop switching the Ford plant?

  8. ngineered4u
    March 29, 2016 at 12:20 pm

    Hey Stephen, I am not sure the exact date that CP stopped switching the plant in Oakville. I just looked up an old arbitration case and it was dated 1995. I qualified in 1988 and remember using CP power to switch, so I can olny assume the CP operations stopped in the late 90′s?

  9. Marcus Stevens
    January 3, 2021 at 11:38 am

    I miss those days. wish I got a few more photos. Thanks for sharing.
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