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This is amazing, Bruce! Thanks for sharing this photograph with us. Its always a pleasure seeing these retro takes on my stomping grounds.
These trains were called ‘Aberdeen Turns’ in those days. They ran out of the East Pool in London with an unassigned crew. The train often did a lot of work enroute didn’t pay well ..so often went to the spareboard, it was the trip to book off if one was a regular man.
Back then, only London crews worked trains on what was then called the Goderich Sub.
Also, the SW-1 may have been set off at Guelph Jct for an eastbound to lift to Toronto. Maybe there was a speed restriction on it, precluding sending it across the typical route for Toronto bound traffic out of Hamilton..the CN Oakville Sub ‘joint section’.
Hello again Bruce,my comment on note 3 may also have applied to the transformers. The “Aberdeen Turn” sometimes handled dimensional loads headed east, because CN didn’t want then on the joint section. The most common load in that category was combines from Massey-Ferguson.
By the way, this shot was taken about 6 months before I started my 37 years on CP.