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A pair of CP Rail GP9u locomotives lead their train east across Sixteen Mile Creek in Oakville. Presumably exercising trackage rights on CN's Oakville Sub between Hamilton Jct and Toronto (Canpa). I read that this arrangement began in 1896 continuing for 99 years - after that things changed. A relic of CP's maroon and grey era is the swoosh over 8242's front-most radiator intake, for the yellow stripe.
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Caption: A pair of CP Rail GP9u locomotives lead their train east across Sixteen Mile Creek in Oakville.
Presumably exercising trackage rights on CN's Oakville Sub between Hamilton Jct and Toronto (Canpa).
I read that this arrangement began in 1896 continuing for 99 years - after that things changed.
A relic of CP's maroon and grey era is the swoosh over 8242's front-most radiator intake, for the yellow stripe.

Photographer:
John Pittman [288] (more) (contact)
Date: 1992-07-07 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CP 8242, CP 8225 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: CN Oakville Sub MP 22 (search)
City/Town: Oakville (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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2 Comments
  1. Cdntrainphotog
    March 4, 2020 at 11:26 am

    Nice catch John. I didn’t think they went past the Ford plant in Oakville. They would come through Port Credit with a big cut of autoracks.

  2. Stephen C. Host
    March 5, 2020 at 2:17 pm

    The rights ended around 2010….

    CP trains ran From Hamilton Junction to the Canpa so this could have very well been a mainline freight not a local. Locals did run past the ford plant all the way to Burlington West also.
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