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It looks like just another CN train with an everyday leader....however there was much more than meets they eye here....CN 369 with the 5773 leader is passing eastbound 376 looking east to the Newtonville crossovers...at this exact moment....a westbound on the CP lead by CP 5773 was also passing by.....however its train met a fate a short time later in Oshawa..see http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14687
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Caption: It looks like just another CN train with an everyday leader....however there was much more than meets they eye here....CN 369 with the 5773 leader is passing eastbound 376 looking east to the Newtonville crossovers...at this exact moment....a westbound on the CP lead by CP 5773 was also passing by.....however its train met a fate a short time later in Oshawa..see [Editors note and second Dacosta link: Arnold Mooneys great photo of 235 http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14687 and the aftermath by Michael Dacosta http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=213]

Photographer:
Greg Roach [69] (more) (contact)
Date: June 5 2009 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 5773 (search)
Train Symbol: CN 369 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Newtonville (search)
City/Town: Newtonville (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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2 Comments
  1. Stephen C. Host
    October 15, 2015 at 6:29 pm

    And a photo of the aftermath – one of our first photos ever on this site: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=213

  2. BradKetchen
    October 17, 2015 at 8:10 am

    What’s also interesting is that 2 5773′s were headed Westbound.
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