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On a perfectly overcast day, GP-9 #403 rests at the Chatham Street roundhouse. Here are some locomotive details... - Built by the General Motors Diesel Division (London, Ontario) in March, 1954. - Equipped with steam boilers for passenger operations - Constructed to operate long-hood forward - Equipped with Automatic Train Control to permit operation in the lead position on New York Central lines east of Welland, Ontario - Rebuilt as CP Rail GP-9u, #1689 at Angus Shop, Montreal, in February 1988 (Information Source: www.thbrailway.ca)
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Caption: On a perfectly overcast day, GP-9 #403 rests at the Chatham Street roundhouse. Here are some locomotive details...

- Built by the General Motors Diesel Division (London, Ontario) in March, 1954.

- Equipped with steam boilers for passenger operations

- Constructed to operate long-hood forward

- Equipped with Automatic Train Control to permit operation in the lead position on New York Central lines east of Welland, Ontario

- Rebuilt as CP Rail GP-9u, #1689 at Angus Shop, Montreal, in February 1988

(Information Source: www.thbrailway.ca)

Photographer:
Peter Newman [86] (more) (contact)
Date: 07/04/1977 (search)
Railway: Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo (search)
Reporting Marks: TH&B 403 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Chatham Street Roundhouse (search)
City/Town: Hamilton (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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2 Comments
  1. awmooney
    May 4, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    I miss the ol’ TH&B a lot more than I thought I would. Once known as the “To Hell & Back” or the “Thump, Hump & Bump”.

  2. MrDan
    May 6, 2015 at 1:01 am

    Those were the first three GMD built GP9′s too.
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