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As they say, sometimes it’s better to be lucky, than be good! When did the steel train run from the lower city to Nanticoke switch from the former H&NW routing via Ferguson Avenue to the path via Brantford?
So these were the trains of the time I was an infant! Nice Arnold…another classic shot. I definitely remember those Laser trains…the one you captured here was quite similar to what I recall seeing in Kitchener on the Guelph Sub.
Very nice again Mr Mooney! Sorry..but what was a ‘Laser’ train? Love the double GT units and the use of a GP9m on what I understand was normally F9′s and a B-unit.
Brad: Mike Lockwood described the “Laser” back in commentary of photo #12629 about 5 years ago stating the “Laser was a Chicago-Montreal trailer train that utilized ‘well cars’ for moving (truck) trailers thru the St. Clair Tunnel”. This being before the tunnel was enlarged and the service redundant.
The GP9 upset a lot of us, as the classic A-B-A combo had brought us out in groves.
Stuart: I’m not sure on the steel train routing; it began thru Hambone and shared with CP (TH&B) over 9 week or three month intervals, something like that. I think they only used the Hambone downtown route in the spring of 1986 and after that went by way of Dundas Sub.
239-238 were the Chicago- Toronto Laser’s. 233-234, 235 -236 were the Toronto – Montreal versions. Crews joked that they were great to work as you never got a Clear to Stop signal, but had to “Laz” around for hours to get them.