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Ontario Northland 1521, one of three FP7s painted in the "Progressive" paint scheme (the others were 1502 and 1517), idles at CN's Spadina facilities in the spring of 1966. Steam crane CN 50834 can be seen behind the unit.Doug Page Photo, Bruce Acheson Collection Slide.
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Caption: Ontario Northland 1521, one of three FP7s painted in the "Progressive" paint scheme (the others were 1502 and 1517), idles at CN's Spadina facilities in the spring of 1966. Steam crane CN 50834 can be seen behind the unit.

Doug Page Photo, Bruce Acheson Collection Slide.

Photographer:
Doug Page Photo, Bruce Acheson Collection [129] (more) (contact)
Date: 05/01/1966 (search)
Railway: Ontario Northland (search)
Reporting Marks: ONT 1521 (search)
Train Symbol: N/A (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Spadina Servicing Tracks (search)
City/Town: Toronto (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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4 Comments
  1. Jacob Patterson
    May 1, 2023 at 9:02 am

    Doug also shot this from the Spadina overpass: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=50012

  2. pierre fournier
    May 1, 2023 at 2:00 pm

    I thought this was a new color then i see 1966…

  3. awmooney
    May 1, 2023 at 6:12 pm

    Amazing. A rather short-lived paint scheme that didn’t grace all that many units until it was ditched. I rather like it.

  4. Jakob Mueller
    May 1, 2023 at 7:17 pm

    The white “hockey stick” is similar to what ended up being used on GO Transit units a few years later… and the first batch of APCUs were built out of ONR FP7s.
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