Comments on: …certainly a different era… A trio of SOO Line SD40-2 : CP Rail extra SOO 6616 West prepares to receive train orders by Operator’s hoop at Guelph Junction , August 31, 1985 Kodachrome by S.Danko Anyone able to identify the CP Rail Guelph Jct Operator? More train orders by hoop Bolton 1978 sdfourty

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:10:14 +0000

I’d have to look at my saved train orders & timetables from that era, because upon reflection, I think Farmer may already have been an RTC by 1985.

RonaldB — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:07:45 +0000

That operator may be Norm Farmer.He later became an RTC NGF, (aka ‘no good farmer’ to some crews, although he was a really good dispatcher)