Comments on: A hot August morning, CP 6539 taking a break at the John Street roundhouse facility.

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 03:29:06 +0000

I aslo recall another time on a westbound out of Toronto we had this unit for Guelph & had to set it off at Guelph Jct. I was head end brakeman and becuase we were close to tonnage for the hill, I went back & ran it from Streetsville until we got close to the ‘Jct’. When we arrived there, I uncoupled from the train and the hogger pulled past the east Goderich Sub switch (where the GO trains once entered their yard)I revered the switch & ran it into one of the Goderich yard tracks. While I did that, he normaled the switch and coupled the power back on the train. He then started to pull and I ran across from the yard & jumped on the power..I think the whole move took us about 5 minutes. One couldn’t get away with stuff like that now.

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 03:22:46 +0000

Back in 1973, that unit showed up at Woodstock ON for the roadswitcher/yard jobs there. We took the crusty old girl over to Ingersoll & back even though it wasn’t actually equipped for ‘road’ service without a pilot. I recall it roade like a jeep on a plowed field & it had a funny sounding single horn that sounded like a tugboat. Looks like the horn was replaced sometime after that.

By: R.L.Kennedy

R.L.Kennedy — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:56:51 +0000

West Toronto Yard is adjacent and continuous with Lambton Yard. They are in the west end on the Galt Sub. at start of MacTier Sub.

By: hoggerdoug

hoggerdoug — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:42:26 +0000

I stand corrected. I do recall being at John Street that day, perhaps refresh my memory as to where West Toronto would be. I was along for the ride that day and not too familiar of the area.

By: R.L.Kennedy

R.L.Kennedy — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:21:25 +0000

This is not John Street. It is West Toronto.