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I remember being out on this beautiful early spring day thinking about how nice the weather was and how scarce the trains were. Often, that is the way it goes. The station has been upgraded with the 'VIA' signs (and now no VIA serves here)and an addition on the far end used to house a Bingo works, but now is home to some sort of church. Out front has been altered for the seasonal GO Transit service. Sperry Rail Services does a south track inspection. Other than a CN track-car, thats all I logged that long ago morning.........
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Caption: I remember being out on this beautiful early spring day thinking about how nice the weather was and how scarce the trains were. Often, that is the way it goes. The station has been upgraded with the 'VIA' signs (and now no VIA serves here)and an addition on the far end used to house a Bingo works, but now is home to some sort of church. Out front has been altered for the seasonal GO Transit service. Sperry Rail Services does a south track inspection. Other than a CN track-car, thats all I logged that long ago morning.........

Photographer:
A.W.Mooney [2134] (more) (contact)
Date: 03/24/1978 (search)
Railway: Sperry Rail Services (search)
Reporting Marks: SRS 139 (search)
Train Symbol: unknown (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CN Grimsby Sub. (search)
City/Town: St. Catharines (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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6 Comments
  1. Cdntrainphotog
    February 27, 2017 at 8:19 pm

    “and how scarce the trains were” Nothing’s changed too much in nearly 40 years.

  2. PacificPaul
    February 27, 2017 at 8:20 pm

    And you also got the green “Punch Buggy” :)

  3. Marcus Stevens
    February 27, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    Love those Sperry cars, miss them greatly :(

  4. awmooney
    February 28, 2017 at 4:14 am

    I don’t understand that little green jalopy. A few weeks earlier I was in Barrie and a little jalopy just like that was parked there at Allandale, too. Same ugly green. Co-incidence?

  5. bruce
    August 11, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    So this not your mode of transportation back then??

  6. awmooney
    August 11, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    Hah!! I’d never go near one of those heaps, even though a lot of guys liked them. About 4 years before this shot I was going out with a woman who drove a Beetle. She was involved in a head on crash. After what she went thru, I vowed I would never drive a car with no protection up front. She got hit by a drunk.
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