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... if CP was hauling passenger trains in 2014, what would it look like? It's been 44 years since the last Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train on the Owen Sound subdivision.. this is what it would probably have looked like in 2014. The Credit Valley Explorer Tourist Train takes the honours for using the first GP20C-ECO in (revenue) Passenger Service. (Not true? Post in comments!)
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Caption: We're in an alternate dimension. Passenger service to Orangeville did not end in October 1970 and it has continued ever since. Here we see Canadian Pacific Train #307 from Union Station headed to Orangeville and Owen Sound. BZZT. Wake up! In fact, it's 2014 and the Credit Valley Explorer tourist train is using a borrowed GP20C-ECO for the final Winter Run of the Snow Train this year.

Curious - could this the first passenger train hauled by a CP GP20C-ECO? (Add in comments below!)

Photographer:
Stephen C. Host [1500] (more) (contact)
Date: 02/22/2014 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CP 2267 (search)
Train Symbol: CVE (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Owen Sound Subdivision (search)
City/Town: Inglewood (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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5 Comments
  1. Alex Titu
    February 22, 2014 at 7:16 pm

    Great photo Stephen. Very sharp!

  2. Marcus Stevens
    February 22, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    Nice stuff, I wonder what Cando well eventually replace it with?

  3. Warren Schlo
    February 23, 2014 at 10:10 am

    Awesome shot, but I hate to burst your bubble… does this count?
    http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=463074&nseq=6

  4. headtailgrep
    February 23, 2014 at 11:09 am

    Yes, in a way it does. So, I can probably claim the first in Canada. However, did that Amtrak train carry revenue passengers? The CVE was about 120 ticket holding paying passengers, and not a commemorative, test (Geometry), or display train.

  5. Warren Schlo
    February 23, 2014 at 4:29 pm

    I’ll give you that. I had no idea if it was a revenue service or not, that’s why I wasn’t sure if it would count or not. At least it was passenger equip, but I’d say for sure the first revenue run in Canada. There was one of these switching around Holiday Train cars out west at one point, but that was just switch service, so I wouldn’t count it.
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