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Caption: A little something different. Showed up at the TH&B roundhouse and asked about taking pictures when I met a worker out there by the tracks. He stood by me as I climbed, with permission of course, just a few steps up the old coaling tower ladder to get a slightly different perspective on all the power at the shop this day. No I wasn't going to climb very far, I had my camera in one hand and I am not crazy about heights. Nice collection of locomotives; C&O 4828, 3885 and 4806 were power for the Nanticoke train, other units are C&O 4805, CP 4244 and on the left, local switcher TH&B 53. I didn't get to the Chatham St facilities near as often as I wished, but every single time I was greeted by friendly, courteous TH&B fellers.
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Not crazy about heights…says the guy who climbed the CCS loadout at Dundas…
Hahaha….oh-h-h…you’re sharp. At CCSL I was crazy; here it was the problem of carrying a camera, and it did not have a strap.
Two of my favourite paint schemes…TH&B and the Chessie cat.
As far as paint schemes go, I certainly agree with you…..but my favourite is the D&H Lightning Stripes.
I’ve have a few pics of the D&H stripes in Fort Erie on transfers from Buffalo. However, it is challenge to find slides from 20 or so years ago…lol.
Time marches on. It is a bit longer ago that that!!!! But still, maybe you could someday find and post.:)
I remember CP had lots of the Chessie Geeps
stored at the John St roundhouse for many years. I still have lots of pics. Any idea why they just did not return them to Chessie after the downturn in traffic? Seems strange to keep them if they were not needed.
This is a great effort Arnold. Glad you took the effort to climb for the vantage point.
Thanks Steve. It was all I could do as there were no large puddles around.
You should have gone to Woolworths.. or Simpsons-Sears or Bargain Harolds or whatever five and dime you guys had back then to get bottled water.. which was probably in glass bottles… come on ingenuity knows no bounds!
The Chessie’s stored at John Street were off-lease until needed again. For the GP40s ( 3700-3739 group) they no longer belonged to Chessie. For the GP38′s they weren’t needed and after some leases by CP and others, were also sold off
That must have been such an amazing place!
I’m guessing the C&O-CP lash up in the background was likely the power for the Goderich wayfreight?
I wondered about the other power, Dave. Usually TH&B switchers powered the Goderich way-freight, but that day maybe they were all out assisting a rock train cresting the hill at Vinemount or something…………….
C&O ‘Progress’.
Pretty sure the 4805 & the C-424 were Goderich power, those B&Os made it up there a few times.