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One of my few photos taken at the Halifax terminal/station, 1772 is coupled onto a string of passenger cars to shuffle them? or turn them?
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Caption: One of my few photos taken at the Halifax terminal/station, 1772 is coupled onto a string of passenger cars to shuffle them? or turn them?

Photographer:
Steve Young [781] (more) (contact)
Date: 08/29/1980 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 1772 (search)
Train Symbol: n/a (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Halifax terminal (search)
City/Town: Halifax (search)
Province: Nova Scotia (search)
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  1. robin lowrie
    May 29, 2018 at 2:20 pm

    My guess is to turn them. Seems to me, normal practice on CN at the time, was to run cars with the vestibule to the rear usually. The CN “Marshaling Guide” books seem to bear this out.
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