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Hurricane Agnes was a very rare storm that came inland and caused major destruction to upper New York State with major flooding. It washed out most of the Erie-Lackawanna which ultimately caused its bankruptcy. Due to the storm E-L rerouted its trains through Southern Ontario most notably over the TH&B and the CNR. Here we see a detouring E-L train lead by a pair of GE U25B's up front (2501 and 2505, with C424 2412 trailing) heading through Bayview Junction, eastbound on CN's Oakville Sub. Douglas Page photo, Collection of Tony Desantis.
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Caption: Hurricane Agnes was a very rare storm that came inland and caused major destruction to upper New York State with major flooding. It washed out most of the Erie-Lackawanna which ultimately caused its bankruptcy. Due to the storm E-L rerouted its trains through Southern Ontario most notably over the TH&B and the CNR. Here we see a detouring E-L train lead by a pair of GE U25B's up front (2501 and 2505, with C424 2412 trailing) heading through Bayview Junction, eastbound on CN's Oakville Sub.

Douglas Page photo, Collection of Tony Desantis.

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Douglas Page photo, Collection of Tony Desantis [1] (more) (contact)
Date: 06/27/1972 (search)
Railway: Erie Lackawanna (search)
Reporting Marks: EL 2501, EL 2505, EL 2412 (search)
Train Symbol: EL detour (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Bayview Junction - CN Oakville Sub (search)
City/Town: Burlington (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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4 Comments
  1. headtailgrep
    April 4, 2014 at 11:32 am

    So I’m curious – how did these trains route through Ontario? Anyone know?

  2. headtailgrep
    April 4, 2014 at 11:39 am

    Not being too familiar with EL operations (before my time) I reference this system map:

    http://www.erielackhs.org/images/stories/el/EL_sys_map_l.gif

    And I would hazard a guess this is rerouted Chicago to New York traffic sent around the long way via Montreal. Would this be correct?

  3. Stuart Streit
    April 4, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    See Greg McDonnell’s U25B article in the September 1982 issue of Trains for additional information on the EL detours.

  4. James Adeney
    April 4, 2014 at 8:45 pm

    Correct. They detoured via Montreal.
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