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CN Switcher YRP003 heads back to Rivière-des-Prairies with about 8 boxcars in tow and a rather ratty GTW GP38-2 locomotive to pull them, as it passes by the former Dickson incinerator, now abandoned for nearly 50 years, located on the street bearing the same name.
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Caption: CN Switcher YRP003 heads back to Rivière-des-Prairies with about 8 boxcars in tow and a rather ratty GTW GP38-2 locomotive to pull them, as it passes by the former Dickson incinerator, now abandoned for nearly 50 years, located on the street bearing the same name.

Photographer:
Ian Malenfant-Picard [69] (more) (contact)
Date: 08/18/2026 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: GTW 5820, CN 4712, CN 4134 (search)
Train Symbol: CN YRP003 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Subdivision Longue-Pointe (search)
City/Town: Montréal (search)
Province: Quebec (search)
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4 Comments
  1. Driver8666
    August 23, 2026 at 3:57 am

    And not far from where MLW used to be.

  2. Aitch
    August 23, 2026 at 7:57 am

    Sweet lighting ! It’s surprising that those two beautiful brick stacks have lasted 50 years in abandonment.

  3. mberry
    August 23, 2026 at 8:11 am

    Funny, I shot that at Longue Pointe too.

  4. Stephen C. Host
    August 23, 2026 at 10:10 am

    It costs a lot of money to dismantle stacks.
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