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CN C44-9W 2616 leads a freight eastbound over the diamond at "Melrose" (Mile 12.2), on the Strathroy Sub just outside of Komoka. The train is crossing over CP's Windsor Sub mainline, with the connecting track between the two lines visible on the right.
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Caption: CN C44-9W 2616 leads a freight eastbound over the diamond at "Melrose" (Mile 12.2), on the Strathroy Sub just outside of Komoka. The train is crossing over CP's Windsor Sub mainline, with the connecting track between the two lines visible on the right.

Photographer:
Bill Thomson [715] (more) (contact)
Date: 12/29/2001 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 2616 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Melrose - CN Strathroy Sub (search)
City/Town: Komoka (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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6 Comments
  1. jknott86
    April 11, 2019 at 11:43 am

    Does that connecting track ever see any use?

  2. Snake2
    April 11, 2019 at 3:43 pm

    I think it was built specifically for a CP Double stacker that used the CN tunnel for a few years.

  3. jknott86
    April 11, 2019 at 4:54 pm

    Thanks! Did a bit of googling and came across this http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=12453

  4. ngineered4u
    April 12, 2019 at 11:17 am

    One of 2 “slow” diamonds left on CN in Sarnia-Montreal corridor. The other being at Doncaster on the Bala sub.

  5. Snake2
    April 12, 2019 at 11:22 am

    Everyone knows Phil – Doncaster is slow – for you. and you alone.

  6. ngineered4u
    April 12, 2019 at 11:38 am

    ????@Snake2.
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