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Ha – and my photo from 2005 comes up on the suggested photos and is nearly the same.. I thought that crossover was much older than it was – clearly not there in 1988.
Nice shot.
Really like this image. Nothing like a station to compliment a moving freight train. This is a winner, Geoff.
Steve,
The crossover used to be further east than in your shot. I have prints of CN 382 on the ground on the old crossover, just haven’t scanned them yet. I think it was relocated to allow a train to get from the Leamington branch to the passing siding. Near the end the w/b would setoff the empty Insulated Boxes on the pass and the Leamington local could then go across the main to lift them. Before, 381/383 would have to pull them through the cross over and shove them back toward the old Tile Yard track (bush track). Crossover took a lot of abuse from 6 axle Alcos and EMD’s!!
Frig Geoff this is a close time machine match eh http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6456
Pretty sad how much it degraded over time eh Steve….