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Rolling down the grade to downtown Brampton, CN 398's train of tank cars, grain hoppers, autoracks and general manifest freight bangs incessantly over the Brampton diamond, at the interlocking crossroads of the busy CN Halton Sub and Orangeville Brampton Railway (ex-CP) Owen Sound Spur, that can be seen crossing horizontally in the foreground.  Echoing and booming around downtown ever since the second rail line was laid in the 1800's by the Credit Valley Railway, the classic frog design diamonds would be replaced with a new type of diamond in a few years (2011): one that let the mainline (CN) remain seamless rail, while a train crossing on the lesser-used line (OBRY) would ride up and over the rail heads via its wheel flanges. No more of that welcoming bang-bang, bang-bang, bang-bang as heavy freights roll through downtown anymore (nor the katink-katink, katink-katink, katink-katink as lighter GO trains passed).
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Caption: Rolling down the grade to downtown Brampton, CN 398's train of tank cars, grain hoppers, autoracks and general manifest freight bangs incessantly over the Brampton diamond, at the interlocking crossroads of the busy CN Halton Sub and Orangeville Brampton Railway (ex-CP) Owen Sound Spur, that can be seen crossing horizontally in the foreground.

Echoing and booming around downtown ever since the second rail line was laid in the 1800's by the Credit Valley Railway, the classic frog design diamonds would be replaced with a new type of diamond in a few years (2011): one that let the mainline (CN) remain seamless rail, while a train crossing on the lesser-used line (OBRY) would ride up and over the rail heads via its wheel flanges. No more of that welcoming bang-bang, bang-bang, bang-bang as heavy freights roll through downtown anymore (nor the katink-katink, katink-katink, katink-katink as lighter GO trains passed).

Photographer:
MrDan [930] (more) (contact)
Date: 10/08/2007 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 5800 (search)
Train Symbol: CN 398 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Brampton / CN Halton Sub (search)
City/Town: Brampton (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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