Comments on: Back in the day, you could occasionally catch CN passenger engines in freight service around southern Ontario. In this scene from March 1970, an eastbound freight descends “the hill” into Bayview behind the interesting lash-up of FPA-4 6780, GP40 4003, GP9 4100 and GP9 442?. Look at that brake shoe smoke!

By: mercer

mercer — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 14:44:57 +0000

This is a Paris Turn, train 830.
It originated with the power from Spadina shop as train 831 and would’ve either gone lite engines with the caboose to Paris pit. Or slipped over to Don Yard for some empties and then ran west. These and Limehouse Turns (851/850) utilized a mixture of freight and passenger power found at Spadina any given day.

By: Eric May

Eric May — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 01:33:19 +0000

it looks like the steam generator is running which seems odd.

By: Doug Page

Doug Page — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 01:12:40 +0000

I found a “going away” shot of this train; the last unit was the 4421.