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Off work  early on this particular Saturday, so, being then a foaming rail rat, of course wandered over to Bayview to see what was happening. An extra was on the way eastbound, billed as a "Director's Special", so waited it out. As seen from the lookout at former Hamilton West, CN 9506, with extra flags, has six coaches in tow, interesting variety.........that looks to be the Observation car on the end; huge window in order the big wigs can watch the miles roll by..........Six cars.....kinda  means the railroad was a tad management heavy back then, wouldn'cha think? All those boys going for a free ride :o) (The 9506 went to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority in 1995)
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Caption: Off work early on this particular Saturday, so, being then a foaming rail rat, of course wandered over to Bayview to see what was happening. An extra was on the way eastbound, billed as a "Director's Special", so waited it out. As seen from the lookout at former Hamilton West, CN 9506, with extra flags, has six coaches in tow, interesting variety.........that looks to be the Observation car on the end; huge window in order the big wigs can watch the miles roll by..........Six cars.....kinda means the railroad was a tad management heavy back then, wouldn'cha think? All those boys going for a free ride :o) (The 9506 went to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority in 1995)

Photographer:
A.W. Mooney [2139] (more) (contact)
Date: 10/29/1983 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 9506 (search)
Train Symbol: extra (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CN Dundas Sub. (search)
City/Town: Hamilton West (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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2 Comments
  1. I’m curious how you guys knew it was coming :)

  2. I don’t recall the details, but probably someone friendly with someone from CN got a phone call, then passed the info to someone else who tore off over to Bayview to inform us this train was out there. The bearer of fruitful news was a very prestigious & popular person back in those days. Scanner talk was there, but not nearly as informative as now.

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