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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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Just love a November sunny Saturday afternoon...
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and a great time to try out my new (for me) used Nikkor 28mm f2.8 lens.
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At least twenty eight units (maybe a couple more hidden upper right)
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Of the manufacturer & models in the slide, here's my list, from the left, bottom to top:
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Budd cars in CN livery: RDC-2; RDC-1; CN MLW S-13; RDC-1; and at top: RDC-4; CN MLW RS-18;
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GMD FP9A ( CN 6531); F7B; MLW FPB-2u (either 6858 or 6559); MLW FPA-4; two ONR GMD FP7A ; CN MLW S-13;
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GMD FP9A (VIA 6521); MLW FPB-4;
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MLW FPA-4 (VIA 6774); and three more units likely two FP9A and one FPA-4
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behind the pole: Budd car in VIA livery: RDC-1; and almost hidden, appears to be a MLW RS-18 and a GMD F
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extreme right, appear to be four coupled: two GMD F's; a MLW FPB-4; another GMD F and a MLW RS-18; at top MLW S-13
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at CN Spadina November 4, 1978 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Noteworthy: see any 'ditch lights'?

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	11/04/1978
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 17 Favourites

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through the Lake induced mist, at 80+ m.p.h., FP9A 6534 spits the mile 316 searchlight signals
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VIA #62 RAPIDO approaching the Rouge River bridge, October 6, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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More Scarborough RAPIDO
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 2436 "> CN 6514 </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 47404 "> CN 6524 </a>
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Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	10/06/1979
Location:	Rouge Hill ( Port …
Province:	Ontario

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A popular CPR fan location.
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Mile 16.4 Goderich Subdivision
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Mile 39.2 Galt Subdivision
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My notes record 'station closed July 1986'
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at Guelph Junction, April 7, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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More GJ:
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 2803 "> operator at work </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 1835 "> long hood forward </a>
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Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/07/1979
Location:	Campbellville
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 20 Favourites

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The Seventies C P Rail ...
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….when every lashup was an adventure in motive power variety.....
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….GMD – GMD - MLW combo: GP35 and SW1200RS is assisted by a MLW 'ugly 80' RS-23
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accelerating on the downgrade at the Campbellville Road crossing, April 7, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Note the location of 5006's marker lights ... a GP35 leading ! ? !
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Given no flags, no markers illuminated, this is a regularly scheduled train, likely this is fourth class #52 (?)
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Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/07/1979
Location:	Campbellville
Province:	Ontario

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Prior to the CPR's 1954 Budd built Park cars, the solarium cars graced the tail end of many CPR passenger trains.
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The NSC 1931 built CPR buffet-parlor-solarium-lounge ANTIGUA is CP Rail #63 Track Geometry Car. (ex work car #411255, 1971)
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As far as I can determine car 63 is now in traditional CP maroon livery and continues to serve as Track Recording Car 63
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TRC 63 at CP Rail Agincourt, October 8, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Notable:
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A search for sisters of ANTIGUA reveals as of 1960 CPR rostered a buffet-solarium-parlor car 'TRINIDAD' with 16 Parlor, 16 Observation, 6 Solarium seats ( per Patrick Doran's CPR book).
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 40673 "> right side car 63 </a>
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Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/08/1979
Location:	Scarborough
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

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A time honoured tradition...
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VIA #1's Sleeping Car Conductor observes progress from the upper dutch door of ex CP Rail Laurentide Park
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the daily ex CP Rail The Canadian under operation by your CN for your new VIA Rail Canada (at that time a very weird sight indeed ! )....at CN Bradford, an April 22, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 7292"> head end </a>
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	04/22/1979
Location:	Bradford
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 19 Favourites

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The Seventies C P …. … that is CP Rail a division of Canadian Pacific Limited...
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….when every CP Rail train was an adventure in motive power variety.....
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….and MLW Power Ruled !
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two C424's (#4203, 42x6), two RS-18's, a RS-3 (#8459) power a regular scheduled westbound, likely #915, with two in transit ex CP Rail VIA FP7A's ( VIA 1416, 14xx),
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near milepost 160 Belleville Subdivision, April 29, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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noteworthy....TOFC loads on the head end....
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...the ex CP Rail VIA 1400's (and ex CP Rail VIA 1900's) were a common sight on the Belleville Subdivison as the units cycled through maintenance schedules at the CP Rail Montreal shop,
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the in transit F's would cease June 17, 1979 when VIA trains 1 & 2, Canadian Canadien, commenced origination from Montreal's Central Station,
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(and concurrently VIA trains 3 & 4, Super Continental, commenced origination from Toronto Union Station),
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by that time the Budd built dome cars: ex CP Rail Skyline and ex CP Rail Park cars were cleared to enter MCS
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/29/1979
Location:	Newcastle
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 27 Favourites

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MLW's rule !
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VIA CN FPA-4 #6789, VIA CN FPB-4 #6865 and CN RS-18 #3105 have the morning Capital / Lakeshore, trains 43 / 53, on the move,
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Accelerating from the Cobourg station stop, June 23 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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interesting:
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at left note the livestock loading pen and ramp, CN work train caboose and rail transport work car,
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and the main line ribbon rail looks relatively new,
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at extreme right is my '77 Impala, and above the Impala is the CP Rail westbound searchlight home signal for the CN Cobourg Town Spur (CTS) interlocking at CP Rail Belleville Subdivision mile 135.2:
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CTS: Switch points face west from CN track KS12 (south service), interlocking controlled by the CP Rail Train Dispatcher.
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CTS: Originally the Cobourg Railway Company incorporated 1834, commenced operation 1853 ( three years prior to the GTR ( now the CN Kingston Sub.) completion) as the Cobourg & Peterborough Railway (C&P). The 2 mile causeway and bridge over Rice Lake was problematic and by 1866 the railway was re-routed east of the Lake and renamed the Cobourg Peterborough and Marmora Railway (CPM)
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The industrial tracks on the north side of the Kingston Subdivision were known as the Cobourg Yard, now known as Cobourg.
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	06/23/1979
Location:	Cobourg
Province:	Ontario

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Westbound at the CP Rail Leaside crossover *
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The one and only: The Empress, MLW 1957 built RSD-17, CP Rail #8921 ( assisted by RS-18 #8795 ) in charge of The Transfer.
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track on the right is the Don Branch mile 206.4 Belleville Sub., track switch at near left is for the south service track, to right in the distance is the VIA kiosk for the Havelock Budd
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at CP Rail mile 0.2 North Toronto Subdivision, Kodachrome, December 22, 1979 by S.Danko
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notable: * Crossover, single: for many decades, just one at Leaside from south track to north track, to allow eastbound Don Branch traffic ( used by the Havelock Budds) to access the north track, hence only the double absolute signal required for eastbound north track traffic.
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/22/1979
Location:	Leaside
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 20 Favourites

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…...T'was a near Silent Night …..
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......a few faint sounds.....
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…..a distant hum of fluorescent lights….
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….. a photographers' footsteps....
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…. a winding click of a Nikons' slow shutter speeds...
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….a gentle hiss from an EMDs' compressed air tank valve …
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….a waiting Monday's call to duty.....
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…. a fan's delight, left to right: EMD 1952 built GP7's: C&O #5773 / C&O #5735 / Chessie C&O #5781
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... a special place, the Pere Marquette Railway built roundhouse,
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…..a railway city, St. Thomas, Ontario, January 17, 1981 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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…. a very Merry Christmas to all and to all....
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….. a better 2022 New Year !
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…. a sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Chessie System
Date:	01/17/1981
Location:	a Railway City
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 13 Favourites

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Heavy Haul Haven
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Alco-philes Utopia
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Cartier Railway 81 and 74 on a southbound ore pellet train at Able, the first siding north of Port Cartier.
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At Able, P.Q., June 7, 1981 Kodak negative by S.Danko
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notable:
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Cartier 81: a 1975 built MLW M-636, scrapped 2003
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Cartier 74: a 1973 built MLW M-636, sold in 2002 to Marine Diesel Engines
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Cartier Railway (now Arcelor Mittal Mines Canada) first generation MLW's, Alco's, and GMD's out of service or sold by 2000 and or scrapped by 2011
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The six axle Alco's MLW's retired by 2002, some sold, some scrapped, several to WNYP (and since retired).
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Arcelor motive power is now nineteen GE AC4400CW, five SD70's, two SD90's and some leased GE's. ( credit Trackside Guide)
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Cartier
Date:	06/07/1981
Location:	Able
Province:	Quebec

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

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The original CNR passenger livery: Green Gold & Black
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The Track Side Guide records car Work Service 72917 as NSC 1953 built and retired from passenger service as Baggage 9089
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At the Fort Erie we all remember April 16, 1977 Ektachrome by S.Danko
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Noteworthy: At that time Work Service Cars were typically re-assigned passenger equipment
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And those outside braced wooden box cars appear to be from the prior century.
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/18/1977
Location:	Fort Erie
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

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Just never know what you will find at Bayview
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A 1968 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe receives some TCL: replacement of a fouling spark plug
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Meanwhile GMD 1974 built GP40-2L(W) CN 9409 and GMD 1956 built GP9 CN 4476 power Extra 9409 West mixed freight through the turnouts.
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At Bayview, October 14 1978 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/14/1978
Location:	Bayview
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 17 Favourites

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The westward view from the now removed Hopkins St overpass,
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VIA 64 powered by 1987 built GMD F40PH-2D #6421 traverse the mile 304 speed restriction on the North Main with the usual consist plus ex CP equipment on the tail end : two Budd baggage, a Manor and Skyline 504
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Operating on the north main due to the CN fiber optic cable train with TOP's for the south main and Oshawa south service track, powered by CN SD-40 #5084 ( the future #6007 ) and SD-40W #5339
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Today GO / MetroLinx double track main and buildings occupy the lands on the north side ( to the right ).
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At mile 304 CN Kingston subdivision, October 20, 1991 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 9626"> cable action </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 8659"> Hopkins action </a>
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	10/20/1991
Location:	Whitby
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 10 Favourites

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R A P I D O
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335 miles
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scheduled five hours five minutes
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scheduled average speed: 65.9 m.p.h.
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three scheduled passenger stops: Guildwood, Kingston, Dorval
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Toronto Union to Montreal Central
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twice daily each direction
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Remarkable given the technologies at that time: including jointed rail shared with freight traffic, dozens of level crossings, 1940 era signaling, 1950 era radios, max 90 m.p.h. track speed....
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FP9A 6524, F7B 6618, FP9A 65xx in charge of VIA 62 , R A P I D O, approaching the Brimley Road crossing May 6 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Notable:
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 7447"> faster than Rapido: image #7447 hmm... </a>
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noteworthy: The Sound: at full throttle you could hear those three GMD's for miles....
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Sunday Rapido: 8 coaches ( 76 seats each), 2 cafe bar lounge ( 2500 series 'snack & beverage' service seating for 44), one Dayniter car ( 52 seats), one Club Car ( 38 seats) handling the marker lights: yields * 698 revenue passenger seats
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Sunday service * hence the extra coaches – essentially the morning and afternoon train consists combined.
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* 698 seats in an aircraft would require 3.7 DC-8 passenger jets
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	05/06/1979
Location:	Scarborough
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

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The Junction.
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And those chaps with the lawn chair: Pull into the empty RBG parking lot ( in April few botanical types around ) on Plains Road and select a space beside the embankment.
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On a sunny, warm spring day with a wrist watch, camera, timetable and lawn chair and you were all set for a grand rail watching time !!
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Two of six MLW 1960 built RS-18m, the m for modified for high speed CN Tempo service and head end electrical generator equipped, easily handled the Tempo cars assigned to VIA 72
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At CN Bayview, April 28, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Interesting: those RS-18m and Tempo cars were never in VIA's plans: the MLW's retired in 1984 ( owned by CN ) and the same year seventeen ( of the original 25 built for CN, 21 with VIA at 1984) Tempo cars were sold to the Ansco Investment Co. for the Ski Train. Ansco is owned by Philip Anschutz, and was ( as of 1984) the new owner of Rio Grande Industries which controlled the D&RGW.
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And history repeats: after the Ski Train ceased operation ( as a UP operated train since 1996 but owned by Ansco) those seventeen Tempo's were bought back by CN (in 2009) for the ACR Agawa Tour Train.
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More Interestingly: the original purchase agreement with Ansco included the sale to VIA of two (of three) remaining D&RGW's California Zephyr cars: D&RGW#1440 Silver Shop ( to VIA #519 ) and D&RGW #1145 Silver Sky ( to VIA #15519 Jasper Park (!)).
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	04/28/1979
Location:	Bayview
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 17 Favourites

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At track speed a High Green at Newtonville for daily except Saturday #652, aka 'Ontarian'
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Scheduling allowed daily trains #651 ex Sun, #652 ex Sat, #655 ex Sat and #656 ex Sat, between Union and Kingston, to be handled by one set of Budd Cars for two round trips daily except as noted.
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A Nikkor 200mm F4 view from the bee bridge ( Nichols Road) of the Newtonville crossover May 13, 1979 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Notable: seems to me that the Budd Company built rail diesel cars likely were the most fuel efficient heavy rail equipment ever created, capable of carrying ninety seated passengers and crew at up to ninety miles per hour: a Budd Car's fuel consumption measured in miles per gallon verses other heavy rail transport fuel usage being measured in gallons per mile.
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Noteworthy: sometime in the nineties the wooden bee bridge was reportedly damaged by a CN freight car's shifted load.
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Notable: The smoke stack denotes the location of the uncompleted Ontario Hydro Wesleyville power generation plant. The plan was have the fuel oil delivered by tanker train – the siding tracks remained in place for quite some time. Throughout the decades the plant building and grounds have been used for film shoots and for fire fighter training.
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	05/13/1979
Location:	Clarington
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 19 Favourites

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The eastward view from the now removed Hopkins St overpass,
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ex CP equipment: Skyline 504, a Manor, two Budd baggage on the tail end of VIA 64 powered by 1987 built GMD F40PH-2D #6421 traverse the mile 304 speed restriction on the North Main.
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Meanwhile the CN fiber optic cable train has TOP's for the south main and Oshawa south service track, powered by CN SD-40 #5084 ( the future #6007 ) and SD-40W #5339
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Today GO / MetroLinx double track main and buildings occupy the land to the left (north).
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At mile 304 CN Kingston subdivision, October 20, 1991 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 9626"> cable action </a>
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<a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id= 8659"> Hopkins action </a>
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	10/20/1991
Location:	Whitby
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 17 Favourites

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L&PS L2, an April 1915 GE build, had several owners including the London Public Library Board, the Toronto & York Division of the CRHA then relocated by a private owner to Brampton and today is at the Halton County Museum
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At CN Harbour Yard, near Bathurst Street, October 16, 1983 Kodachrome by S.Danko
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Noteworthy: L&PS L1 is preserved at the Elgin County Railway Museum in St. Thomas.

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	London and Port St…
Date:	10/16/1983
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

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Rare mileage indeed !
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Unusual VIA J train #64 and #42 rolls by at a sedate 40 mph and into the Rouge River Valley passing under the CPR Belleville Subdivision.
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Forty five years into the VIA era and November 27, 2021 the first regularly schedule passenger trains on the CN York Subdivision....( granted from time to time an occasional emergency detour may have transpired).... two day all weekend detours due to major maintenance on the Rouge River bridge mile 316 Kingston Subdivision initiated by Metrolinx ( GO Transit) .
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And from those who rode: Sean Marshall wrote in Canadian Passenger Rail group ISO November 27:
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“ ... [#64] joined with Train 42 and separated at Oshawa Station. Trains 64/42 went up the Bala, with 42 leading – passengers with forward-facing seats sat backwards to Doncaster. [VIA] took the south to west connecting track, with Train 42 over Bayview Avenue. After a few minutes, we reversed direction with Train 64 leading. Apart from the 40 minute delay due to the detour, there were no incidents to note.... ”
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and Doug Bardeau of London wrote (same source) November 27:
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“on the same train as Sean (possibly in the same car - 4), from Union to Oshawa. Here is the consist:
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6415 F40PH-3*
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3474 LRC Club*
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3318 LRC Coach*
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3333 LRC Coach*
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3303 LRC Coach*
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3304 LRC Coach*
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6431 F40PH-3**
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3465 LRC Club**
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3339 LRC Coach**
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3335 LRC Coach**
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3305 LRC Coach**
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904 P42DC**
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Consist faced west on track 8 with 64 boarding from gate 16 and 42 boarding from gate 17. Train ran backward up Bala subdivision.”
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In the Rouge River valley lands at mile 6.5 CN York Subdivision, witnessed by Cobourg fans John & Ethan, Bob G, & Moi at 12:32 November 27, 2021 digital by S.Danko.
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Noteworthy: from a photography viewpoint this is a challenging location, the overcast day allowed this mid day southeastward facing image.
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sdfourty

Name:	sdfourty
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	11/27/2021
Location:	Scarborough
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

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