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Two sets of power rest at the TH&B Chatham Street roundhouse in the early spring of 1984. We see RS18 8791 and leased C&O GP38 4828 as well as C424 4227, B&O 4806, and C424 4207. The three unit consist would later power the steel train west over the Waterford sub.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/ /1984
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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South Junction denotes the northward mileboard to the end of the CPR Waterloo subdivision, formerly known as the Grand River Railway. TG21 is southward bound to Hagey after lifting some cars at the GEXR/CN interchange a mile north of here as the sign denotes. <br><br>
A bit of history for those interested - this section of the line was built new in 1960/61 (along with new Codeline) to re-route the Grand River Railway to meet the CN - and run joint section over CN Waterloo sub from South Jct to North Jct (approx location of todays huron park spur and Mill St) where GRR rails resumed to Waterloo. The rebuilding of the GRR made way for construction of Highway 8 in '63. This rebuilding/re-alignment also resulted in the end of electrification of the Grand River Railway and Lake Erie and Northern and the switch to Diesel was made in October '61.<br><br>For those interested in the lines rich history, pick up a copy of Steel Wheels along the Grand - sold through Credit Valley Railway. The Grand River Railway / Lake Erie and Northern have a rich history not too disimilar to the London and Port Stanley but was a CPR operation largely independent of the rest of the CPR well into the 90's. The last GRR employee retired only a few years ago.

Name:	Stephen C. Host
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/25/2014
Location:	Kitchener
Province:	Ontario

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How it all began. This photo of the Sunday evening Havelock to Toronto Dayliner taken by brother best exemplifies my introduction to railroading. I was born and raised in Peterborough. Our family would use the Saturday train for trips to Toronto. The train would seem to take forever to arrive due to the city's 10 mile per hour speed limit. No horn blowing either. All you could do was wait and watch the Mars light flash as it slowly made its way to the station. I have lots of good memories of these trips, seeing the countryside, passing through Agincourt yard, crossing the Leaside bridge, the then filthy Don River, Don Yard and into Union Station. I vividly remember one trip back from Toronto during a blizzard, probably in 70 or 71. Drifts had blown across the line, and in the open stretches the engineer accelerated as much as possible before hitting the drift. Once we hit the drift, you could feel and hear the car pushing through the drift. The speed would drop and drop until finally we would break through. Then we would accelerate as quickly as possible before the next drift. When we arrived in Peterborough the crew were looking under the first car. The drifts had dislodged a 5 foot square pan on the underbody which was now only secured by a 4 inch wide strip of aluminum and dragging on top of the rails which could have caused us to derail. The crew tried going back and forth a few times to dislodge it to no avail. In the mid 70s we started driving to Pickering and taking the GO train in to Toronto. I didn't ride again until 1981 when I went to college in Scarborough, and used it for a few trips home until the train was cut by VIA.

Name:	Eric May
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/1981
Location:	Peterborough
Province:	Ontario

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Southern Rails Cooperative shoves cars they just pulled from the CP interchange across the CP mainline toward the CN interchange. Southern Rails Cooperative operates this portion of former CN track.

Name:	Matt Watson
Railway:	Other
Date:	10/21/2019
Location:	Moose Jaw
Province:	Saskatchewan

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A pair of former GO F59PH sit along side a CN GP9RM while awaiting shipping out to their new owner

Name:	Marcus Stevens
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/26/2010
Location:	Oakville
Province:	Ontario

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Hotshot CP 110 heads out of Portage bound for Winnipeg and points east.

Name:	Paul Sincerny
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/04/2011
Location:	Portage La Prairie
Province:	Manitoba

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The youngest of the 9100's 9160 leads 211 at Rotave siding with 5869 behind him. CP 9160 along with the other SD90's have been as we all know put up for sale. Where they will go is anybody's guess. This big brutes just never seemed to work for CP, but they were a treat to watch go by on a regular basis between Moose Jaw and Winnipeg.

Name:	CalMurray
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/14/2008
Location:	Rotave
Province:	Saskatchewan

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After a nice GO train ride from Toronto, I arrive at Bayview Junction. Just as I arrive, I hear a train departing Aldershot yard. Sure enough, a few minutes later this train comes around the bend with a friendly honk and wave from the engineer.

Name:	Alex Titu
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	01/18/2014
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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Detour move SLR 393 is seen arriving on the island of Montreal with flared SLR 3805 leading three other G&W units. This 96-car train has 40 loads and 56 empties and it was quite a sound hearing the train crossing the St. Lawrence River.

Name:	Michael Berry
Railway:	St. Lawrence and A…
Date:	02/01/2018
Location:	Lasalle
Province:	Quebec

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Taking advantage of the nice 75 degree sunny weather a member of the crew sits outside the cab as 4132 hauls 595 back to Huntsville, reflecting in the pond beside the tracks just south of Martins.

Name:	Wayne Shaw
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/25/2012
Location:	Martins
Province:	Ontario

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The FIRST of the dedicated TH&B steel slab trains from Hamilton (Stelco) to Nanticoke is shown here, about to roll under Cty road 4 on the late afternoon of November 7, 1983. The train reached Nanticoke initially by way of TH&B to x-LE&N at Waterford, down to Simcoe, onto CN, thru Renton & Jarvis to Nanticoke's own trackage. CP purchased some RoW and was then able to reroute these trains along the CASO at Waterford and then on to Jarvis.
Shown here are B&0 4815,C&O 3885 and 4828, power brought in for startup. This train, with the usual 20 cars of 80 tons of slabs each proved to be a real moneymaker until track patrol on May 20, 1986 found a mud-slide beginning at the Cainsville Fill after heavy rain. That night, thousands of tones of fill slid down into the Grand River, and that was the end of the line for the TH&B in this area. Rerouting from Hamilton to Welland and west on the CASO proved to be too costly, as a result the job was handed over to CN. The steel contract was initially broken into 10 week periods, with CN running trains 6 of 10 weeks, and TH&B the other 4. Soon CN took over completely, and the Hamilton to Brantford/Waterford line was abandoned May 2, 1989, and tracks pulled up that same year.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Toronto Hamilton a…
Date:	11/07/1983
Location:	Scotland
Province:	Ontario

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As of this posting we are a couple of months off 40 years since this photo was taken. It is 35mm negative film, so the quality has gone south, somewhat. It has even been 19 years since Huron Central took over this trackage from CP. In this image, CP 8795 and 8153 have just returned to McKerrow from Espanola and working the big pulp & paper co there; Eddy Matches was once a big employer in Espanola...... The train is rounding the wye at McKerrow and heading east to Sudbury. RS-18 CP 8795 became part of the rebuild program in the 1980s; becoming RS-18u 1833; all the 1800s off the roster by 1998. The 8153, an SW1200RS, was dealt to Rail Trusts Equipment in 2003. I cannot quite make out the markings below the headlights on 8795, but it appears to be "tested (with date)St. Luc", and in smaller print below the first it does read 4-3-71.

Name:	A.W.Mooney
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/29/1976
Location:	McKerrow
Province:	Ontario

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<b>Plow Extra:</b> During the Winter of 2007, strong relentless winds (Which cause drifts up to 3-4M high) and a couple months of white stuff on the ground caused the ordering of a rare Plow Extra on the Goderich subdivision. During the CN years, this line was well known to host a pair of F units in plow service and was frequented by photographers. With Goderich and Exeter having had recently transferred two covered wagons of their own from Lakeland and Waterways, the ingredients were ripe for a repeat of the covered wagon plow extra!<br><br>
Plow extras such as this are becoming harder to find, mostly due to costs - it takes four crew members to operate a plow train: Two MOW employees in the Plow to operate left and right side appliances and horn - one of these will also radio instructions to/from the Conductor and Engineer themselves whom reside in the tail end engine managing progress over the road and train speed. In addition, the beating a plow takes requires constant maintenance in order to keep it operating - in summary a whole lot of money is spent to run these trains and a resultant amount of snow is required in order to call them.<br><br>
A photo is best used to summarize, and in this scene, 1938 built GEXR 55413 (ex CN 55413), GP9 RLK 4001, F9A RLK 1400 and F9A RLK 1401 have found a small drift of snow and are busting it in the farmlands near Mitchell, Ontario.<br><br>

Name:	Stephen C. Host
Railway:	Goderich and Exete…
Date:	02/07/2007
Location:	Mitchell
Province:	Ontario

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A very ratty looking BNSF 208 trails IC 2726 as they slog up the grade on the York Sub at Beare. They got down to 14mph according to the HBD at mile 7. For those unfamiliar with the location, that's the CP Belleville Sub crossing over the York Sub on the right, and it's about 5 minutes from the main entrance to the Toronto Zoo. 1457hrs.

Name:	Mike Lockwood
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/30/2014
Location:	Beare
Province:	Ontario

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O&W 9954 on it's new railroad BC Rail, and perhaps on it's first trip on new turf. During the 1980's BC Rail was desperately short of of motive power and acquired an assortment of second hand locomotives. Eventually 9954 would be overhauled and repainted at the Squamish Locomotive re-build shops and emerge in the BC Rail red white and blue paint along with new number 747.

Name:	Doug Lawson
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	06/20/1987
Location:	Williams Lake
Province:	British Columbia

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VIA 6529 (GMDD FP9A) with 5 VIA-blue coaches (also of CN heritage) is eastbound near MP 35 on the CN Oakville Sub.<br>
The train will pass through the shadow of Aldershot Cold Storage just ahead; the near track is its siding. <br>
The bridge in the background is Lemonville Road. Lighting indicates a morning train. <br>
Next station is Burlington West, as Aldershot VIA Station did not then exist.

Name:	Bill McArthur photo…
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	1983-04-14
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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