Comments on: A special place – The Rock. Oh, so much The Rock – I pull my baseball cap tight against the breezy salt air as the wind whips up the waves in the salt water bay, the residential back yards with a view of the bay, the laundry snapping in the wind, the sounds of the seabirds screeching, the distinctive accent in the voice of the trainman on channel one: ” hold ‘er dere ” who then leans over and throws the switch lever and the sounds of five GMD 567 locomotives – the power for today’s #204 – backing onto # 204′s consist….no other place like it…..August 2, 1982. Today’s TT#204 power is five NF210′s: TT#910- TT#940- TT#917- TT#919 (CN noodle) – TT#918 (CN zebra), today you will find the units in Chile, Whitebourne Nfld, retired, retired, Nicaragua (respectively). Kodachrome by S.Danko.

By: harricottbay

harricottbay — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 02:35:18 +0000

Steve, I once saw six units on an eastbound freight passing through Gambo in late August 1986. Sadly, I never had my camera that day but my girlfriend and I chased it parallel to the TCH until it turned inland at Glovertown (Alexander Bay). It was the one and only time I saw a six unit train on the Rock, two years later there would be none. – Ken

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:51:53 +0000

I must have been dumb in 2013… four units? I can’t count. It’s five And this is an amazing shot in so many ways.

By: harricottbay

harricottbay — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:37:59 +0000

This is a gem Steve! You also caught 917, one of only two units (the other being 915) painted in the early Terra Transport scheme when it was formed in 1979.