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In a sea of action red & multimarks, one of my favourite liveries, officially 'lived' 14 years. Chessie System, C & O #4826, one of ten GP38, EMD 1970, under the 'gaze' of that 'script' water tower. At CP Rail Agincourt, May 6, 1984 Kodachrome by S.Danko noteworthy CP and C&O had a long standing motive power arrangement. My first visit to CP Leaside, on a sunny Sunday morning spring 1968, the first two trains, one east one west were powered by C&O / B&O F units. (That westbound had an A-B-A lashup). Four years later ( 1972 ) the Chessie System livery was unveiled Chessie System era officially ended July 1, 1986 when the C & O merged into CSX Transportation CSX Corporation, dates from November 1, 1980, when Chessie & Family Lines agreed to form that holding company ( only months before the Chessie era ended, April 1986, the B & O officially merged into C & O; nothwithstanding the latter's original purchase of the B&O was 1963 ) that sea sdfourty
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In a sea of action red & multimarks, one of my favourite liveries, officially 'lived' 14 years.

Chessie System, C & O #4826, one of ten GP38, EMD 1970, under the 'gaze' of that 'script' water tower.

At CP Rail Agincourt, May 6, 1984 Kodachrome by S.Danko

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CP and C&O had a long standing motive power arrangement. My first visit to CP Leaside, on a sunny Sunday morning spring 1968, the first two trains, one east one west were powered by C&O / B&O F units. (That westbound had an A-B-A lashup).

Four years later ( 1972 ) the Chessie System livery was unveiled

Chessie System era officially ended July 1, 1986 when the C & O merged into CSX Transportation

CSX Corporation, dates from November 1, 1980, when Chessie & Family Lines agreed to form that holding company

( only months before the Chessie era ended, April 1986, the B & O officially merged into C & O; nothwithstanding the latter's original purchase of the B&O was 1963 )

that sea

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Date: 05/06/1984 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: C&O #4826 (search)
Train Symbol: N/A (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CP Rail Agincourt (search)
City/Town: Agincourt (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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