Comments on: Chesapeake & Ohio GP7′s 5730 and 5744 (built by GMD and EMD respectively, in 1951), gleam in the evening light outside the old wooden enginehouse at Chatham in 1970. Due to tax/duty rules at the time, a handful of US railways including C&O, NYC and Wabash purchased locomotives from EMD’s Canadian operation, General Motors Diesel, in London Ontario. C&O acquired units 5720-5738 from GMD (5720-5729 later sold to the New York Central RR for their Canadian operations in 1956, as NYC 5818-5827). C&O 5744, built by EMD, was one of a handful of US-built GP7′s transferred to the C&O’s Canadian operations. The Geep fleet worked C&O’s lines in southern Ontario for many decades and into the 1980′s under CSX, until mass retirement in the mid-80.Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell’Unto collection slide.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:41:28 +0000

This is great. This building stood until January or February 2006. Within a week or so of CN taking over all buildings were taken down.

They parked power behind the photographer in later years and not at the ’roundhouse’ as they called it off a stub track off the mainline. Two days a week for D724.

By: Todd Steinman

Todd Steinman — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:45:20 +0000

Beautiful photo. It certainly doesn’t look like this today.