Comments on: A slide from Bruce Mercer. Quite a scene B&O 4806 and C&O 4823 leased power to CP Rail heading west on the TH&B Waterford sub with a “slab train” destined to Nanticoke. It must have been a circuitous route and quite the alphabet of railway initials involved. Perhaps someone can add more details about the slab trains and routing.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 23:28:06 +0000

Sammy hagarsville has a nice ring to it. Something tells me Van Halen was on the radio of photographers during this chase!

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By: awmooney

awmooney — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 21:48:32 +0000

Oh, I see the first car is different. But still, the blog shot must be 1984 rather than 1983 perhaps.

By: awmooney

awmooney — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 21:47:23 +0000

So after looking at the blog link Mark has supplied, with the same locomotives featured; I get to thinking this “unknown” photographer mentioned on the blog might be Mr. Mercer himself?

By: John Eull

John Eull — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:02:14 +0000

A TH&B crew all the way to Nanticoke and back. Watch for the Steel Train article in the TH&B Historical Society “Ontarian”…Research underway–publishing date not yet set!

By: Mark MacCauley

Mark MacCauley — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:29:23 +0000

I’ve heard rumors that after the TH&B was washed out west of Aberdeen, CP ran the train east to Welland where they hopped onto the CASO westbound to Hagarsville. I believe, if it happened at all, this was a very brief route before the operation was halted. To further @jknott86′s comment, the running on the CASO from Waterford started in 1984. A nice summary of the operation and shots of the same power in Waterford can be found: http://rymalstation.blogspot.com/2014/12/throwback-thursday-1-stelco-steel-train.html

By: hoggerdoug

hoggerdoug — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:08:02 +0000

I’m curious what crews would operate this train. A TH&B crew from Aberdeen west and then trade off with another crew or would the TH&B crew take the train all the way to Nanticoke ???

By: jknott86

jknott86 — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:28:36 +0000

I believe the original routing was to take the TH&B Waterford Sub to Waterford, where’d they get onto the CASO to runaround the train. After the runaround it was onto the LE&N southbound to Simcoe and then onto the CN Cayuga Sub from there to head east to Garnet for the Hagersville Sub. Eventually a bypass was built to connect the Waterford Sub with the LE&N directly, avoiding the move on the CASO to get between the two.

I think they may have eventually taken the CASO from Waterford to Hagersville at some point too.