Railpictures.ca - Douglas Page photo, Collection of Tony Desantis Photo: Hurricane Agnes was a very rare storm that came inland and caused major destruction to upper New York State with major flooding. It washed out most of the Erie-Lackawanna which ultimately caused its bankruptcy. Due to the storm E-L rerouted its trains through Southern Ontario most notably over the TH&B and the CNR. Here we see a detouring E-L train lead by a pair of GE U25B’s up front (2501 and 2505, with C424 2412 trailing) heading through Bayview Junction, eastbound on CN’s Oakville Sub. Douglas Page photo, Collection of Tony Desantis. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

Hurricane Agnes was a very rare storm that came inland and caused major destruction to upper New York State with major flooding. It washed out most of the Erie-Lackawanna which ultimately caused its bankruptcy. Due to the storm E-L rerouted its trains through Southern Ontario most notably over the TH&B and the CNR. Here we see a detouring E-L train lead by a pair of GE U25B's up front (2501 and 2505, with C424 2412 trailing) heading through Bayview Junction, eastbound on CN's Oakville Sub. Douglas Page photo, Collection of Tony Desantis.

Caption: Hurricane Agnes was a very rare storm that came inland and caused major destruction to upper New York State with major flooding. It washed out most of the Erie-Lackawanna which ultimately caused its bankruptcy. Due to the storm E-L rerouted its trains through Southern Ontario most notably over the TH&B and the CNR. Here we see a detouring E-L train lead by a pair of GE U25B's up front (2501 and 2505, with C424 2412 trailing) heading through Bayview Junction, eastbound on CN's Oakville Sub.

Douglas Page photo, Collection of Tony Desantis.

Photographer:	Douglas Page photo, Collection of Tony Desantis [1] (more) (contact)
Date:	06/27/1972 (search)
Railway:	Erie Lackawanna (search)
Reporting Marks:	EL 2501, EL 2505, EL 2412 (search)
Train Symbol:	EL detour (search)
Subdivision/SNS:	Bayview Junction - CN Oakville Sub (search)
City/Town:	Burlington (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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5 Comments

headtailgrep

April 4, 2014 at 11:32 am

So I’m curious – how did these trains route through Ontario? Anyone know?
headtailgrep

April 4, 2014 at 11:39 am

Not being too familiar with EL operations (before my time) I reference this system map:

http://www.erielackhs.org/images/stories/el/EL_sys_map_l.gif

And I would hazard a guess this is rerouted Chicago to New York traffic sent around the long way via Montreal. Would this be correct?
Stuart Streit

April 4, 2014 at 12:58 pm

See Greg McDonnell’s U25B article in the September 1982 issue of Trains for additional information on the EL detours.
James Adeney

April 4, 2014 at 8:45 pm

Correct. They detoured via Montreal.
mercer

April 7, 2025 at 11:37 am

I just found this photo as it popped up on the Header (while I was looking for something else…). I’m sure I provided the answer previously on a different detour image, but here goes, albeit 10 years late -
This train is EL TC-100 from Chicago to New York. It is operating as CN train C846 ( 844′s and 846′s were Extra trains out of Fort Erie at such time). Both CN and CP handled these detours but they basically came and went from Canada via the Niagara frontier, to/from the D&H at Rouses Point NY.
They were EL personnel with CN or TH&B or CP pilots.
This train is the final move for Day 3 ( of 17 days) of the detours.

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