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Now that’s a neat lash up!
What a catch !! Amazing to think this was the assigned power on a long distance freight. I believe 955 was a Toronto to Thunder Bay drag.
1200′s on a through freight? Wow. Very nice.
Looks like northbound at the siding at Elder, approaching Major Mackenzie Dr., with McGillivray Rd. in the background.
Brad, those units were common on the London Pickup out of Toronto before the assigned jobs that turned at Guelph Jct started in the late 1990s. Usually, the set of 3 was sent back to Toronto in the morning on the east pickup, train 50. Sometimes both of those pool jobs had as many as 80 cars. The westbound got smaller as he kept setting off enroute, and the eastbound kept getting bigger. One trip, I left Quebec Street eastward, with 3 units and the van, we ran by Woodstock and lifted a few cars at Galt & Guelph Jct and still manged to have about 40 cars by the time we reached Toronto.
Here’s a great photo of a bunch of “pups” on an eastbound. It wouldn’t have surprised me if that train had over 60 cars, perhaps more.
One note for clarification, the 8100s that were rebuilt into 1200s had a top operating speed of 35mph. They could be towed in a lashup at track speed though.