Comments on: CN Extra 2027 West – a Montreal 1967 built MLW C-630M leading, with sisters 2324 & 2021, both MLW builds ( M-636 built 1971 and C-630M built 1968 ), as their train, at left, rolls across the Canso Causeway. At Lower Quarry Rd, Aulds Cove, N.S., August 11, 1982 Kodak negative by S.Danko Notable: Railway operations on the Cape Breton section of the CB&CNSR were discontinued 2015. CN 2027 retired April 29, 1993; CN 2021 retired July 30, 1992 with the trucks recycled to GE to Dash 8′s in the 2430-2454 series per Branchline Mar/Apr 21; CN 2324 retired by 1998 per Trackside Guide. Note: at left, the CP Rail car – that box is likely returning from a trip on Terra Transport: CP Rail on The Rock: a big 40 foot box http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Tue, 26 May 2026 02:46:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: harricottbay http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=45640#comment-46646 harricottbay Mon, 31 May 2021 01:34:45 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/49080005-2-1280x831.jpg#comment-46646 Great image Steve! Lengthy trains were the norm back then in both Cape Breton and Newfoundland. You captured so much in that trip to the East Coast in 1982. - Ken Great image Steve! Lengthy trains were the norm back then in both Cape Breton and Newfoundland. You captured so much in that trip to the East Coast in 1982. – Ken

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=45640#comment-46645 Stephen C. Host Mon, 31 May 2021 01:07:54 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/49080005-2-1280x831.jpg#comment-46645 Here's hoping the Province and other folks can get the railway back off the ground - no sense in a port project in Sydney without a railway! last chance too. Here’s hoping the Province and other folks can get the railway back off the ground – no sense in a port project in Sydney without a railway! last chance too.

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