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Caption: I have always found this image intriguing because it is probably the longest line of uncovered automobiles I have ever seen on a train.
The occasion was just after the infamous Mississauga Wreck on the Galt sub, and a few trains were detouring down thru Waterdown into Hamilton and running east over the CN to get around the carnage.
I was shooting prints, then elected to grab a slide of all these new autos and as a result have been unable to match up just what power led this train.
One could only imagine vandals using this for moving target practice.
Incidentally, the guys seen on the hillside were out for the wreck detours, just as I was.
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Possible it could be a train lead by CP 5790-5791-C&O 3536 (flying white extra flags) on November 16th 1979, I have a Bill McArthur image here of a similarly long train of open autoracks.
Quite a variety of autos on the train, What’s interesting is that theres even a farm tractor on the front of the top ramp of the third car.
Aye, MrDan: Old “Wild Bill” wasn’t with me on the day of this attached photo, but he no doubt stopped by as often as he could to grab the shot you mention on Nov 16h, a Friday. As for me, I was chained to my work.
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All the white wall tires. You felt like you had made it back then when the family car had a set of white walls in the driveway.