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Torpedoes away! 9/5/2001 GTW "Torpedo boat" 4520 is the middle unit of my consist getting ready to depart Oshawa, Ont after making a lift of cars from the General Motors auto plant in Oshawa. I can't tell the road number from this photo, but the lead unit is either a MLW 630 or 636. While my trailing unit is the ubiquitous GP40-2W #9519
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Caption: Torpedoes away! 9/5/2001 GTW "Torpedo boat" 4520 is the middle unit of my consist getting ready to depart Oshawa, Ont after making a lift of cars from the General Motors auto plant in Oshawa. I can't tell the road number from this photo, but the lead unit is either a MLW 630 or 636. While my trailing unit is the ubiquitous GP40-2W #9519

Photographer:
Phil Hall [70] (more) (contact)
Date: 09/05/2001 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: GTW 4520 (search)
Train Symbol: 275 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Kingston (search)
City/Town: Oshawa (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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2 Comments
  1. MrDan
    June 12, 2026 at 8:35 pm

    Hmm, I may have to dispute this one’s accuracy. Those GTW GP9′s were all retired in the late 90′s, as were the final M636′s. The unit on the left looks to be CN 2338 (that had some tape on the rear CN logo), maybe this was the deadline at Mac Yard and both were stored?

  2. ngineered4u
    June 12, 2026 at 8:44 pm

    Hey Mr Dan, thanks for the info. It is possible i got my location wrong and it might be at Mac Yrd. I definitely know that the date is correct for the image.Unfortunately my photo does not show the location like the newer ones do. The photo looks just like A04 in Oshawa. I will let the boys know and thanks for the heads up. Even an old hogger like me doesn’t always get it right!
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