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Nice how that’s green and not the typical primer grey.
You can’t beat the weather though. It does add to the pic in a very nice way.
A nice St. Patricks day post. Cheers!
This looks like the “Ham Turn”. They sometimes had to stop & pick up units at GMD on their return trip from Aberdee/Kinnear. This was done to reduce workload for the yard engine at Quebec Street.
Hey Ron:
That’s definitely heading back to Quebec St. From what I remember, the west end of the switch is not far from the west end switch from GMD. Part of the train is still on GMD trackage. They might run it around, but other photographs that I’ve seen, show them being dumped at Quebec St.
Aberdeen is quite the ways out from GMD, but if they were to head to Quebec St, and then back to Aberdeen (especially with the CR unit, since Hamilton is closer to CR tracks back then, and of course Altoona), that’s a possibility. Also a possibility to drag the IE units with them, since they will be heading to port. I have an old timetable here that I can definitely cross check. They do have special instructions for GMD units however, unless it’s their own.
The train in the photo is on the GM test track and presumably his train is behind the photographer on the main track. This move by the returning ‘Ham Turn” was just a straight lift. The Conrail units were taken into Quebec St.and switched onto the next ‘Ham Turn’ headed east out of Quebec St. They went to CR at Buffalo. There is a misconception that the GM test track was the former Crumlin siding. It was not, the Crumlin siding connected to the Galt Sub main track just east of Industrial Road to a point just east of Crumlin Sideroad.