Comments on: CN Class GR-12m, CN #1000 GMD 1958 built GMD1 with as ordered A-1-A trucks CN 1000 series unit(s) designed / intended for light rail branchline assignments. Sept 8 1983 at CN Thornton Yard, Surrey B.C., Kodachrome by John Baker, collection of Steve Danko What’s interesting A trio of 1000′s series GMD-1 regularly worked the Scarborough Junction yard and the CN Uxbridge Subdivision Scarborough – Lindsay – Peterboro run throughout the late 1960′s; by late 1970′s MLW RS18′s worked the line, then rebuilt GMD GP9′s per Trackside Guide, rebuilt 1989 with B B trucks at Pointe St. Charles and renumbered CN#1423 Class GR-412a GMD1u CN#1423 has worked throughout the CN system, from Saint John to Oakville to Sault Ste Marie to Fort Saskatchewan to Edmonton – try searching CN 1423 sdfourty

By: robin lowrie

robin lowrie — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:38:24 +0000

This may be one of the Vancouver Island assigned units over at the mainland for servicing.

CN9317 — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:32:50 +0000

Ten hundreds in Ontario in the1960s?!? Tell me more!