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Caption: Different power and different paint schemes: resting near the roundhouse turntable at the Canadian National shop facilities in Windsor ON is a set of Norfolk and Western F-units, built for the Wabash Railroads' Canadian operations. By this time the Wabash Railroad was leased to the Norfolk and Western (before they took control in 1970 from majority owner PRR) and some power was already repainted. Witness F7A 3657 (ex-Wabash 657, originally 1155 and the first GMD-built Wabash F-unit) sporting the N&W livery, while the sister unit behind sports the later simplified Wabash livery, and the 3rd F is in its original as-delivered 1100 series paint scheme. N&W renumbered the Wabash F's by adding a 3 to the start of the road number (or if you prefer, adding 3000 to it).
On the left is a set of CN power with an MLW FPA-unit on point (possibly 6758) and a steam generator car on the next track, both used on Windsor-Toronto-Montreal corridor passenger trains. On the right across the river is the motor city: Detroit, home of General Motors, parent company of Electro Motive Division who designed F-units like 3657 and her kin.
More Wabash/N&W Canadian F's:
Wabash 1161A at Chatham, 1960: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=17612
Wabash 726 at Simcoe station in 1964: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=18211
Wabash 676 & 725 at Fort Erie in 1964: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=15707
N&W 3726 and 3666 at Thamesville in 1974: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=18006
...and...
More modern power at Windsor Roundhouse in 1985:http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=16464
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Excellent shot! I remember these units near the end of their career with rusted out body panels replaced in plywood. They were in pretty rough shape. BTW what’s going on with the turntable? Maintenance?
Wonderful scene from the past. It was sad to see all this gone.