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Caption: CP 8242 is leading 8222 as the power heads back to the main CP line in downtown Niagara Falls after dropping off cars at the industrial area near the old Cyanamid Plant and CN yard. The line runs along the side of Park St for a bit, then cuts right thru the center of the intersection of Bridge St and Victoria Av., making for great auto traffic disruptions. Like almost all other street running in Ontario, however, this scene is a look at the past, as this track and all downtown CP trackage was lifted around fifteen years ago. These days, even the GPs are getting hard to come by.
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Great Shot Arnold! The back streets of Niagara Falls yielded many interesting scenes.
It’s interesting that my recent addition to RP.ca of the two CP GPs (8221 and 8239), in Cambridge, in the summer of 2008 was more than 15 years after your photo in Niagara Falls sporting the same paint scheme. Again, nice shot taking us young-ins back in time (I was six years old when this photo was taken).
Yeah, Kevin, to think if it wasn’t for the location I could have captured these two units all that many years later. Finally, however, they are fading away. Best to catch what you can, because it won’t be too far down the road all your comments about GPs will be preceded by the words, “I remember”.
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Great shot. Sadly, CPR no longer has any GP9s left. In January 2015, the final unit was retired. They now sit in dead-lines across Canada. Most in Winnipeg, MB, RIP GP9s.
Thanks for your “fav” and comments, JP. I guess here I will confess that I was getting rather tired of GP9s wandering around when there could have been some different models offered. And now, never to see them again on CP??? It just doesn’t seem possible.
Fortunately there is still one place to see CP GP9s, OSR. Of course the GPs couldn’t hold a candle to the MLW locos.
CN’s hanging on to theirs. Only time tho….