Comments on: The Hunter Harrison years are not fondly remembered by most railroaders, but for railfans it meant just about anything could show up on trains as his “Precision Railroading” basically meant get the trains over the road as quickly as possible with whatever power was available, even if it meant bending the rules a lot. Case in point this day was train 394 with a First Union ex BN SD40 on the point with no Canadian approved appliances in the cab. It wasn’t long before the union stepped in but there were still the occasional exception that slipped through. This day train 394 rolling through the small town of Lynden. The old abandoned junction to the “Brantford bypass” is in the distance beyond the curve. It once ran straight from here to Paris with another junction at Harrisburg for the line north to Galt. Today this is all abandoned although when I took this shot a stub track still remained at the junction for car storage. The abandoned station grounds too are in the foreground and a weed covered track here once served to co-op.

By: awmooney

awmooney — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:19:20 +0000

Thought this train looked familiar. I shot it at Dundas. )

By: ngineered4u

ngineered4u — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:50:34 +0000

CN/BN merger almost happened. Both railroads wanted it, but the Surface Transportation Board told both companies to take a cooling off period, which neither wanted so they called it off. STB and shippers were still dealing the the botched SP take over by UP and the messy split up of Conrail by CSX and NS…. ahh what might have been?