Railpictures.ca - Bill Thomson Photo: Sometimes New York Central power (and later Penn Central) found its way onto the Canadian Pacific, either through run-through, borrowed or pooled power arrangements. Here, a pair of Canadian-built CASO-assigned NYC GP9′s (7431 and 7429, still in NYC colours despite the Penn Central merger 4 years previous) team up with a CP SW1200RS, heading a CP freight westbound through West Toronto junction enroute to Buffalo. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

Sometimes New York Central power (and later Penn Central) found its way onto the Canadian Pacific, either through run-through, borrowed or pooled power arrangements. Here, a pair of Canadian-built CASO-assigned NYC GP9's (7431 and 7429, still in NYC colours despite the Penn Central merger 4 years previous) team up with a CP SW1200RS, heading a CP freight westbound through West Toronto junction enroute to Buffalo.

Caption: Sometimes New York Central power (and later Penn Central) found its way onto the Canadian Pacific, either through run-through, borrowed or pooled power arrangements. Here, a pair of Canadian-built CASO-assigned NYC GP9's (7431 and 7429, still in NYC colours despite the Penn Central merger 4 years previous) team up with a CP SW1200RS, heading a CP freight westbound through West Toronto junction enroute to Buffalo.

Photographer:	Bill Thomson [715] (more) (contact)
Date:	February 1972 (search)
Railway:	New York Central (search)
Reporting Marks:	NYC 7431 (search)
Train Symbol:	Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS:	West Toronto - CP North Toronto Sub (search)
City/Town:	Toronto (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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5 Comments

Cameron A.

May 13, 2014 at 10:17 pm

This is epic. Totally epic. Wow.
Joseph Bishop

May 14, 2014 at 9:30 pm

Very cool!
RonaldB

June 11, 2014 at 1:06 am

Also worth noting, this train would have used the Canpa Sub to connect with CN at Canpa (abbreviation for Canadian Pacific?) near Mimico.
The Hamilton trains to and from Tronto used the CN to get there up, until a decade or so ago, not the longer CP route via Guelph Jct. now used
Cdntrainphotog

February 8, 2015 at 9:15 pm

This is a wonderful site and sometimes I find something that I hadn’t noticed before. Would this be “The Starlite” train from Toronto to Buffalo via CP to TH&B in Hamilton?
mercer

March 6, 2017 at 3:13 pm

Yes, would most certainly be STARLITE. The CP engine is going to Hamilton to swap out one of the Goderich Sub units which would tie up at TH&B Chatham Street enginehouse during layovers. These GP9′s themselves are also laying over having brought the KINNEAR ( PC train FT-1) from Buffalo earlier in the morning. And after making a roundtrip to Hamilton, they’ll be on KINNEAR ( TF-2 ) after midnight, heading back to Buffalo.

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