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Well, for me this defies explanation. I do know someone out there will have one. Here is GO 9832 cab control car with a couple of single level cars behind it followed by 5 bilevels and GO 506 (out of pic). Why this combination? Equipment shortage? I've never seen another GO train quite like this since.
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Caption: Well, for me this defies explanation. I do know someone out there will have one. Here is GO 9832 cab control car with a couple of single level cars behind it followed by 5 bilevels and GO 506 (out of pic). Why this combination? Equipment shortage? I've never seen another GO train quite like this since.

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A.W.Mooney [2134] (more) (contact)
Date: 06/20/1983 (search)
Railway: GO Transit (search)
Reporting Marks: GO 9832 (search)
Train Symbol: unknown (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CN Oakville Sub (search)
City/Town: Bayview Junction (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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7 Comments
  1. Colm
    November 28, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    Wow. Now there’s an interesting train

  2. John Eull
    November 28, 2018 at 7:43 pm

    Actually, single level cab cars with bilevels were common for a while…presumably while the bilevel cab cars were still being delivered. I have several shots of them myself–John

  3. Dave Brook
    November 28, 2018 at 7:51 pm

    Like John, I saw this several times on the Georgetown line as well.

  4. Daniel Odette
    November 28, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    The bilevel cabcars didn’t come along until 84, meanwhile the bilevel coaches were already approaching a decade in use at that point. This happened quite a bit, though I think one single level Hawker and a set of bilevels behind it were more common.

  5. awmooney
    November 28, 2018 at 10:26 pm

    Thanks guys. Well so much for that being a mystery. I don’t know if I have any other shots with this sort of combination, thats why I asked about it.

  6. ngineered4u
    November 28, 2018 at 10:50 pm

    I was a brakeman on the single level cars and by the time I became conductor in 84 most of the GO coaches were bi levels.

  7. Stuart Streit
    November 29, 2018 at 12:55 pm

    First bi-level coaches; 1977, first bi-level cab cars; 1983. Six years of intermingling!
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