Comments on: April is the time of the year when the sun hits the tracks earliest at the Inksetter Rd location of the Dundas Sub. Sunrise right down the line. Note the length of the pole shadow!!! Rather nice power assortment on this #390 as well: GTW 6414, GT 5929 and NS 8007. My notes indicated I left for home around 1500h after logging 16 trains, and this image pictured was my third of the day already. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:39:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: awmooney http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39877#comment-36731 awmooney Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:23:01 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GTW-6414-Copetown-476-edited.jpg#comment-36731 Gotta agree with you, Steve. As a kid I remember long lines of boxcars on most trains. Especially along Niagara because so much fruit and such was loaded in them. A lot of it was very inefficient shipping when you think of it. Gotta agree with you, Steve. As a kid I remember long lines of boxcars on most trains. Especially along Niagara because so much fruit and such was loaded in them. A lot of it was very inefficient shipping when you think of it.

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39877#comment-36726 Stephen C. Host Wed, 01 Jan 2020 20:48:19 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GTW-6414-Copetown-476-edited.jpg#comment-36726 Nuts. We'll see what happens.We still get our share locally where I domicile. CN set off 5 nice older boxcars at Rocktenn in Guelph yesterday.. not quite as old as the 40 footers but 50? footers with ribbed sides and 70's era american railways on the side ain't bad.. I just miss all those CN brown boxcars.. watching videos from the mid 90's and this photo reminds me painfully of such. Nuts. We’ll see what happens.We still get our share locally where I domicile. CN set off 5 nice older boxcars at Rocktenn in Guelph yesterday.. not quite as old as the 40 footers but 50? footers with ribbed sides and 70′s era american railways on the side ain’t bad..

I just miss all those CN brown boxcars.. watching videos from the mid 90′s and this photo reminds me painfully of such.

]]> By: mercer http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39877#comment-36720 mercer Wed, 01 Jan 2020 18:54:16 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GTW-6414-Copetown-476-edited.jpg#comment-36720 383, 399 etc still have some volumes of box cars but certainly less than 20 years ago. All the Class 1's decided 1 or 2 years ago that the boxcar is a dinosaur and needs to be eliminated. Just where they think any existing boxcar customer will go, is a mystery. We all know it'll end up on our highways, either as trailers from Origin to Destination or as containers. 383, 399 etc still have some volumes of box cars but certainly less than 20 years ago.
All the Class 1′s decided 1 or 2 years ago that the boxcar is a dinosaur and needs to be eliminated. Just where they think any existing boxcar customer will go, is a mystery.
We all know it’ll end up on our highways, either as trailers from Origin to Destination or as containers.

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39877#comment-36712 Stephen C. Host Wed, 01 Jan 2020 01:54:22 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GTW-6414-Copetown-476-edited.jpg#comment-36712 Where did all the boxcar traffic go? :) Literally you just don't see it like this anymore and that was 1997... Where did all the boxcar traffic go? :)

Literally you just don’t see it like this anymore and that was 1997…

]]> By: CN9317 http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39877#comment-36703 CN9317 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:37:33 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GTW-6414-Copetown-476-edited.jpg#comment-36703 “When I was 41, it was a very good year...” Interesting leased power on CN and CP, run-through GTW/DW&P and SOO units, and the last big year for MLWs! “When I was 41, it was a very good year…” Interesting leased power on CN and CP, run-through GTW/DW&P and SOO units, and the last big year for MLWs!

]]> By: mercer http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39877#comment-36700 mercer Tue, 31 Dec 2019 19:44:02 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GTW-6414-Copetown-476-edited.jpg#comment-36700 Ahhh yes, the big year of mucho leased power. Ahhh yes, the big year of mucho leased power.

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