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Caption: Coming out of the sun; so had to find a decent angle for a shot, and this was the only alternative. So I wandered down along Zorra Township 35th Line to shoot across the cornfield. Back in the days when useful information was hard to come by,it was a complete surprise when I saw up front CP 5923 and 5924 on their first run out of London !! (Third unit is C&0 3526).
It all seems so significant to me now considering these same locomotives are now going out to pasture, sold off and some even scrapped. Where have the 40 years gone? :o) For the record, 5923 is still toiling for CP while 5924 has been converted to an ECO unit, according to the latest Trackside Guide.
Zorra station can be seen on the right. It was bulldozed out of existence by CP many years ago.
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Awesome shot. If only pictures came with sound.
Could you still smell the paint?
I probably would have been able to, had I not been so far back.
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Probably 904 again. He was the delivery train.
It was no doubt 904, but the power would have come from Windsor. The new units went west after being “trimmed” at Quebec Street shops. They were then put on 904, “never to be seen again”. Kidding aside, I recall riding the head end of a westbound in late 1973, and we had to sound the horn at the first crossing west of Hyde Park. The windows were closed & we could hardly hear the horn, being one of the first to have it mounted back on the carbody instead of over the cab. The hogger said “something wrong with the horn”, I opened the window & it was then we could hear it better.