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…..distant hum of fluorescent lights…. ….. photographers' footsteps.... …. winding click of a Nikons' slow shutter... ….gentle hiss from a compressed air tank valve … …. fan's delight, EMD 1952 built GP7 C&O #5744 ... at the Pere Marquette Railway built roundhouse, …. and a Merry Christmas to all.... …..and to all, a better 2026 New Year ! …..Railway City, St. Thomas, Ontario, January 17, 1981 Kodachrome by S.Danko … More: #5781 #5735 sdfourty
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…..distant hum of fluorescent lights….

….. photographers' footsteps....

…. winding click of a Nikons' slow shutter...

….gentle hiss from a compressed air tank valve …

…. fan's delight, EMD 1952 built GP7 C&O #5744

... at the Pere Marquette Railway built roundhouse,

…. and a Merry Christmas to all....

…..and to all, a better 2026 New Year !

…..Railway City, St. Thomas, Ontario, January 17, 1981 Kodachrome by S.Danko

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#5781

#5735

sdfourty

Photographer:
sdfourty [757] (more) (contact)
Date: 01/17/1981 (search)
Railway: Chesapeake and Ohio (search)
Reporting Marks: C & O 5744 (search)
Train Symbol: n/a (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Pere Marquette Roundhouse (search)
City/Town: St. Thomas (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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  1. Stephen C. Host
    December 26, 2025 at 4:11 pm

    If there was any site I would have wanted to visit, this would have been it. The locomotive also appears to be clean showing pride in workmanship for the St. Thomas folks. What a facility. Shame the property is still vacant after all this time

    Merry Christmas Steve!
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