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That is really something. I guess there must have been some “stock-pen stops’ en route ?
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Back when trains made sounds, I’m sure there was a few moo’s coming out of this one.
Killer image. Thanks for sharing.
Never seen the west end of Puslinch before. nice. I imagine it’s quite similar in fact to today.
What a classic photo John.
Curious that the C-424 is trailing, it was a far better cab to work in than the RS-10.
To Arnold’s comment, stock could be destined for anywhere on the Galt, Windsor,Port Burwell, Goderich, St Mary’s or St Thomas Subs.. Some even went to the GRR (or LE & N?) at Galt, not sure where they went on those lines.
I recall working an extra yard at Quebec St, when 22 cars showed up to be unloaded there. One of the biggest customers was Maus at Ayr, back on the spur beside the ballast pit. They sometimes received as many as 10 cars at one time. In those cases, the crew might be stuck there for an hour spotting cars as they were unloaded at the 2 chutes.
Woodstock had a stock pen that faced the “wrong” way. If a westbound had stock for Woodstock & one of the local jobs wasn’t on duty (e.g weekends) the car had to be “run around” in order to be spotted. One trip I was on an acid train with 3 GM covered wagons A-B-A. We were told to stop at Woodstock & cut off our power,grab stock out of former No 1 track on the nose of our power & spot at the stock pens. I guess the train that set the stock off was running out of time or couldn’t spot it for some reason or other. More memories of a time long gone now. I really appreciate that some like John have captured these images for all to see.
Something many may not know Stephen, back in the 1970s there was a nudist colony south of the track near the west end of this siding. This made for some interesting sights in the summer, especially if one was waiting for a meet in the siding. Some folks in there weren’t shy, they’d sometimes saunter up to the fence to talk to the train crew.
Oh geez, Ronald. You had to mention the nudist camp. I remember one day, maybe 1975, I parked by the Hwy 6 overpass at that dead end road there and walked along the RoW. Beautiful summer day. I was about half way along the siding and sat down in the grass with scanner and just waited. Maybe 1000 ft south or so were some tents and there was a bunch of nudies out there running around chasing each other and laughing. I couldn’t believe it. Pity my telephoto was so weak at 135MM that they were just too out of range for any sort of decent pic. After a westbound went by later, I heard the head end calling the caboose guys to watch out for a couple of naked women waving. It was a big open field out there and there were no trees to disrupt the view. I kept down in the grass and watched, not knowing this was a nudist camp because of a couple of tents but rather thought it was just some people having a roaring good time. I recall a large pond out there too………….fun memories. Thanks for stirring them up.
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Thank you for your comments everyone and RonaldB for the detailed information. And Arnold, here I thought you justtook “station and train” pictures, John