Comments on: Nober, where’s Nober? Well, if you follow the CASO west out of Hagersville on Concession 12 Walpole, the road crossed the CASO at Nober. A nice clean NYC U28B, a GP40 and a GP35, followed up with a CB&Q Burlington Route U28B are heading westbound toward Waterford on the CASO. What’s that brown car in the field? Well, that’s my 1961 Corvair parked on a laneway. We didn’t have time to close the doors as we ran accross the muddy field to grab this shot.

By: mercer

mercer — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:14:59 +0000

NYC and CB&Q setup a power pooling ( and run-thru business) arrangement sometime in mid1967. My first sighting of a ‘Q’ engine was Aug1967. You just never knew when and where they could show up, or how many. A few times it was 3 CBQ behind the lead NYC unit, but most times it was 2 or just 1.
It continued briefly into the PC era but then stopped when Burlington Northern was created ( merger of CBQ, GN, NP ).

By: Eric May

Eric May — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:18:21 +0000

I would not have believed a Burlington unit was in Ontario without this photo.

By: mercer

mercer — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:12:37 +0000

The second-best reason to be around Canfield, Hagersville back then ( the first reason, for me, was the C&O……).
The anticipation of whatever NYC could throw on a hotshot and get it over the road. Of course the newer power, like this, was beginning to dominate.
This would be train LS-3, bound for the Streator connection south of Chicago.
“Q” power was fairly common in 1967/1969.
Dave, NYC 2830-2889 were early U30B.

By: rsmith

rsmith — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:55:29 +0000

It’s a shame the CASO is no more.