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When CP 142 was added on the Hamilton sub it was a gift from the gods. Not only was junk power assigned, which now needed pushers to get up the hill, it often ran in Daylight in the mornning due to delays. Here is the head end of the train as they rolled by Desjardins. We'd crawl back up the hill to get to York Rd for a photo of the pushers curving up the hill. Since the pushers had 1st and 2nd generation EMD, the drama was amazing. Here's a shot of a different train with the pushers getting a workout! . The GE's quickly invaded as did the ECO's.. about a year later it wasn't as good as this!
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Caption: When CP 142 was added on the Hamilton sub it was a gift from the gods. Not only was junk power assigned, which now needed pushers to get up the hill, it often ran in Daylight in the mornning due to delays. Here is the head end of the train as they rolled by Desjardins. We'd crawl back up the hill to get to York Rd for a photo of the pushers curving up the hill. Since the pushers had 1st and 2nd generation EMD, the drama was amazing. Here's a shot of a different train with the pushers getting a workout! . The GE's quickly invaded as did the ECO's.. about a year later it wasn't as good as this!

Photographer:
Stephen C. Host [1499] (more) (contact)
Date: 06/26/2014 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CP 5651, CP 5926 (search)
Train Symbol: CP 142-26 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Desjardins, CPR Hamilton Subdivision (search)
City/Town: Hamilton (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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3 Comments
  1. Curtis Umbelina
    July 16, 2018 at 8:27 pm

    Excellent Steve

  2. jknott86
    February 4, 2019 at 10:46 pm

    Awesome. Thanks for pointing me to this shot. Great stuff

  3. Stephen C. Host
    October 25, 2022 at 2:34 pm

    I can’t belive how often this happened in 2014 and it was just ‘normal’…… by 2015 the number of SD40-2 doubles or triplets leading a train was very slim in good light.. I remember going for one train in summer 2015 because it was becoming rare then….. it was the last manifest I saw with a triple of them… and the light was gorgeous

    Sure there’s work trains and the like.. but they were common and just .. stopped. 2014 was the last good year of it.
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