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What is is that Monty Python used to say..."And now for something completely different!" How about a pair of Illinois Central C-636s solo at Kinnear Yard in Hamilton!?! While these units may not have been a hit with the IC (retired by 1979, if I'm right) or CP (only briefly leased), they certainly were a catch for the fans.
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Caption: What is is that Monty Python used to say..."And now for something completely different!" How about a pair of Illinois Central C-636s solo at Kinnear Yard in Hamilton!?! While these units may not have been a hit with the IC (retired by 1979, if I'm right) or CP (only briefly leased), they certainly were a catch for the fans.

Photographer:
Doug Page [373] (more) (contact)
Date: 3/ /1970 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: IC 1105 1101 (search)
Train Symbol: extra (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Kinnear (search)
City/Town: Hamilton (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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4 Comments
  1. Driver8666
    May 3, 2020 at 5:32 pm

    Didn’t these units have problems with them?

  2. MrDan
    May 3, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    Something about CP not knowing how the (air?) starters worked originally. Hard to believe they were barely two years old when leased to CP – practically brand new power!

    They were orphans on IC and didn’t last long there (even CP didn’t want them). I think in the end they were traded in to PNC after only 10-12 years.

  3. Driver8666
    May 4, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    I heard there were “gremlins” in them.

  4. bruce
    September 11, 2021 at 12:49 pm

    This an easy grab for Doug as he lived only a couple of blocks away.
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