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Best hobby in the world ! A photographer friend recommended the Nikon brand, bought my first used Nikon in 1976 and continue to use that Nikon body regularly. Best ever train ride: Extra 6060 west, a seven car train, Ottawa to Toronto via the (now lifted) Smiths Falls subdivision (mostly at 25 mph) then onto the Kingston sub, west of Napanee the engineer let 6060 really run: at 80+ mph 6060 sounded like the Turbo ! Then a brief stop at Port Hope demonstrated that the 'grape vine' really worked (who needs "social media" ! ) : the whole town showed up! sdfourty.
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sdfourty's 426 photos on Railpictures.ca:
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 07/25/1980 |
| Location: | Leaside |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 01/26/1980 |
| Location: | Parkdale |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 01/19/1980 |
| Location: | Galt |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 01/18/1981 |
| Location: | Campbellville |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 07/25/1982 |
| Location: | Scarborough |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 01/17/1981 |
| Location: | London |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 01/01/1981 |
| Location: | Bolton |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 00/28/2016 |
| Location: | Newtonville |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Industrial |
| Date: | 12/22/1979 |
| Location: | West Toronto |
| Province: |
Ontario |
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Curious how fifties mainline classics find their way to remote rails.....
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Deep into the east St. Lawrence north shore,
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Cartier steam generator car #899 ( NSC built ) is coupled to the
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Cartier Railway business car #847, a Budd 1949 built for NYC five bedroom – buffet – round end observation ex NYC #10560 BABBLING BROOK resides at the Cartier Railway shop – one of two ex NYC Brook series cars owned the Cartier,
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at Port Cartier, P.Q. ex CPR ' Seaview ' June 7, 1981 Kodak Tri X negative by S.Danko
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what's interesting: four of the seven ex NYC Brook series cars at one time or another were owned and operated in Canada by three owners.
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and surprise ! , the eighteen Budd built ' Park ' cars, assigned to ' The Canadian ' and ' Dominion ' were not the last CPR purchase of round end observation cars.
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in 1948 – 1949 Budd built for NYC seven "BROOK" series classics, the four NYC ' Brook ' cars acquired 1959 by the CPR :
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Babbling Brook 10560 to CPR ' Seaview' ; to Cartier business car #847; to several private owners, and restored by current owner Webb Rail LLC as the 'Babbling Brook'
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Fall Brook 10562; to CPR ' Eastview'; to United Railway Supply Montreal in 1969; fire damaged currently for sale by Ozark Mountain Railcar
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Plum Brook 10563; to CPR 'Riverview'; to Cartier business car #846; to private owner (Bill Gray)
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Singing Brook 10564 (10630); to CPR ' Mountain View '; to ACR #551 ' Canyon View '; to West Texas and Buffalo Steamship and Railway Company 'Dagny Taggart'
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In their seven year regular service CPR career two View cars each were assigned to Pool Trains 21 and 22 between Montreal and Toronto, and the other two View cars to the Pool Trains 33 and 34 between Ottawa and Toronto ( via the Havelock Sub). Initially, the Montreal View cars operated through to Hamilton with two other sleepers on No. 321, returning on No. 328. By 1966 all those trains were canceled and/or replaced by RDC's with the View cars in storage / for sale.
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Three of the four CPR View cars had standard size windows in the round end observation, except: ex NYC Singing Brook 10564 (10630), with sisters ex NYC Sunrise Brook 10565 (10631) [ 1964 to private (Jones Properties) to NdeM] and Wingate 10566 (10632) [ to Gateway Rail] all built with extra high observation end windows, the three high windowed Brook series originally assigned to NYC's St.Louis to New York 'Southwestern Limited'
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The four standard observation windowed Brook's ( three purchased by CPR), including Bonnie Brook 10561 (10670) [sold 1964 to private party; to New Orleans NRHS], were assigned to NYC's premier "New England States" and 'Ohio State Limited ' service.....and by 1957 all those NYC trains canceled / replaced.
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It was great to see, through the eighties – nineties, the extra high observation windowed ex CPR 'Mountain View' nee NYC 'Singing Brook' on the Algoma Central as their #551 'Canyon View'.
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Really amazing that all seven of the NYC Brook observation classics survive today.
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sdfourty](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/img498-3-1280x720-200x150.jpg)
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Cartier |
| Date: | 06/07/1981 |
| Location: | Port Cartier |
| Province: |
Quebec |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 12/07/1980 |
| Location: | Toronto |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 06/27/1982 |
| Location: | Port Hope |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 03/18/2015 |
| Location: | Newtonville |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | VIA Rail |
| Date: | 01/17/1978 |
| Location: | Hamilton West |
| Province: |
Ontario |
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So, when is a railway building, a station ?
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Substituting for the removed passenger station, the express freight shed office handled station duties until the end of rail service.
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At the Lindsay Express Freight Shed Station, beside mile zero Uxbridge Sub., September 13, 1982 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Noteworthy Lindsay musings:
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The passenger station removed 1963, after passenger service ended in January 1962
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Ironically, the largest passenger trains to originate from Lindsay occurred after the passenger service ended and after the passenger station was removed !
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Two fourteen car passenger specials, June 24 and June 26, 1963, Lindsay to Morrisburg, Ontario conveyed students ( June 24) and general public (June 26) to the newly opened Upper Canada Village. ( references: Keith Hasen, ' Last Train from Lindsay'.) [ the UCV school specials were common in mid sixties]
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Worth mentioning:
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Perhaps the second largest passenger trains - up to thirteen cars - to call in Lindsay were the several UCRS fan trips: 1963 powered by 6167 (retired 1964) and 1966, 1968 and 1970 (?) powered by 6218. At least two of those trips transited the 55 mile Haliburton Sub (track lifted 1983), powered by SW's north of Lindsay, and other trips transited over the entire Uxbridge and Campbellford Subdivisions.
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And perhaps the second last passenger train to visit Lindsay ( and transit the entire Uxbridge & Campbellford Subdivisions ) is the 1977 CRHA (one way Montreal – Toronto ) trip powered by 6060.
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Per Keith's book the last passenger train to visit Lindsay, the passenger-less Northlander – on a publicity tour, enroute from Belleville's 'Railway Days' celebration – stopped at the express freight shed station May 27, 1978 !
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Interestingly the ( express freight shed) station agent position survived to November 1980, meanwhile CP only occasionally entered Lindsay with abandonment in 1987 – I do recall seeing a CP Rail SW in Lindsay in '85.
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After the 1989 closing of the Union Carbide plant in Lindsay, CN got its way, the last train rolled out of town in 1991. All rails throughout Lindsay ( & surrounding countryside) pulled in 1992.
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 15760"> 6060 on the Campbellford </a>
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| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 07/25/1982 |
| Location: | Lindsay |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 07/04/1982 |
| Location: | Washago |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 03/01/1981 |
| Location: | Concord |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 03/17/1981 |
| Location: | Hamilton West |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourth |
| Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
| Date: | 12/22/1979 |
| Location: | West Toronto |
| Province: |
Ontario |
| Name: | sdfourty |
| Railway: | Canadian National |
| Date: | 01/19/1981 |
| Location: | London |
| Province: |
Ontario |
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