Comments on: I still regret taking my time grabbing this image. I was not alert to how fast the shadow expanded and already was starting up the locomotive while I was looking around the yard. Oh well. Can’t be helped. This view of TH&B 57 and van 83 was taken late day on a Sunday as it was a habit to go out and wander around after the heat of the day had passed. TH&B 57 was sold to GMD in London in May of 1989. The caboose was apparently scrapped in 1995. Real shame. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: dhaisell http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39630#comment-37520 dhaisell Sun, 09 Feb 2020 17:20:53 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/THB-Welland436-edited.jpg#comment-37520 Amazing how pristine the yard is. Amazing how pristine the yard is.

]]> By: thb401 http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39630#comment-36658 thb401 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:45:17 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/THB-Welland436-edited.jpg#comment-36658 No regrets Mr Mooney, another great TH&B picture. Thank you for posting! No regrets Mr Mooney, another great TH&B picture. Thank you for posting!

]]> By: Jakob Mueller http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39630#comment-36118 Jakob Mueller Tue, 03 Dec 2019 03:47:25 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/THB-Welland436-edited.jpg#comment-36118 Not to mention the fact that a number of the geeps were out of service for this time with mechanical problems. Instead of doing maintenance, CP parked defective TH&B geeps at John Street in Toronto. After the full absorption in 1987, they were sent to Montreal and rebuilt as a batch - which is how they got sequential rebuild numbers (1682-1690). IIRC in 1987 there were only three TH&B geeps in active service, and they were very often with 51 and 57 - the only two switchers with MU connections got a lot of road service. I believe power involved a lot of borrowed units from CP - C424s and RS18s show up in photos fairly often. The only "true" TH&B train I ever saw was a Port Maitland local in Dunnville, and it was powered by a high-hood CP RS18. Not to mention the fact that a number of the geeps were out of service for this time with mechanical problems. Instead of doing maintenance, CP parked defective TH&B geeps at John Street in Toronto. After the full absorption in 1987, they were sent to Montreal and rebuilt as a batch – which is how they got sequential rebuild numbers (1682-1690). IIRC in 1987 there were only three TH&B geeps in active service, and they were very often with 51 and 57 – the only two switchers with MU connections got a lot of road service.

I believe power involved a lot of borrowed units from CP – C424s and RS18s show up in photos fairly often. The only “true” TH&B train I ever saw was a Port Maitland local in Dunnville, and it was powered by a high-hood CP RS18.

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39630#comment-36114 Stephen C. Host Tue, 03 Dec 2019 01:42:56 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/THB-Welland436-edited.jpg#comment-36114 I'm not sure when the TH&B was fully merged into CP - but it was sometime in 1987. Fascinating to read in the Ontarion (TH&B Historical Society magazine) that basically, for two years, from 1985 to 1987 the TH&B expanded their empire to include switching Welland, Port Colborne, Montrose, Niagara Falls, and Fort Erie via the CASO purchase. Then CP took it all over once TH&B was merged in.. but that's in part two of John Eull's great article not yet published. This leads me to believe it still had not yet occurred. Kind of wondering how this stretched the TH&B thinner for those years.. given that the Steel Train also ran during this timeframe. I’m not sure when the TH&B was fully merged into CP – but it was sometime in 1987. Fascinating to read in the Ontarion (TH&B Historical Society magazine) that basically, for two years, from 1985 to 1987 the TH&B expanded their empire to include switching Welland, Port Colborne, Montrose, Niagara Falls, and Fort Erie via the CASO purchase.

Then CP took it all over once TH&B was merged in.. but that’s in part two of John Eull’s great article not yet published.

This leads me to believe it still had not yet occurred. Kind of wondering how this stretched the TH&B thinner for those years.. given that the Steel Train also ran during this timeframe.

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