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In my own experience, the late 1970s was a golden age for passenger train lashups. Here is a nice example. CN 6782 leads 3100, 3107 and 4102 as train #75 west with 15 coaches in tow; cresting that long grade from Bayview, some 10 miles distant. The image is taken from the new Hwy 52 overpass; one can see on each side of the lead unit remnants of the old grade crossing that was closed @1975. In the background is the old Inksetter Road bridge. This is Copetown? Yep. Sure doesn't look like this any more !!
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Caption: In my own experience, the late 1970s was a golden age for passenger train lashups. Here is a nice example. CN 6782 leads 3100, 3107 and 4102 as train #75 west with 15 coaches in tow; cresting that long grade from Bayview, some 10 miles distant. The image is taken from the new Hwy 52 overpass; one can see on each side of the lead unit remnants of the old grade crossing that was closed @1975. In the background is the old Inksetter Road bridge. This is Copetown? Yep. Sure doesn't look like this any more !!

Photographer:
A.W. Mooney [2139] (more) (contact)
Date: 04/02/1978 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 6782 (search)
Train Symbol: #75 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CN Dundas Sub. (search)
City/Town: Copetown (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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6 Comments
  1. Stephen C. Host
    June 3, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    Interesting view… and nice engine too.

  2. Joseph Bishop
    June 3, 2015 at 9:26 pm

    Copetown is just a little grown in now….

  3. Cdntrainphotog
    June 4, 2015 at 9:09 pm

    Nice.

  4. Todd Steinman
    July 4, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Do you have a shot when the level crossing was still in place?

  5. awmooney
    July 4, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    Nope. The level crossing wasn’t really a decent shot with the regular Copetown location so close by. Then one day I drove up there and the overpass was being constructed. I think this was in 1976.

  6. Todd Steinman
    July 4, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    Bummer. Oh well…totally understand wit how tight road allowances are to trackage etc…
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