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This image needs an explanation, but unfortunately I do not have one. Here we see what appears to be the daily Toronto-Hamilton TH&B "Starlite" with CP 4564, 5545 and TH&B 74 coming off the CN 'Cowpath', of all places. The CP Goderich (now Hamilton) sub is in the foreground. Just by chance I happened upon this scene while checking out Bayview on an early summer evening. Too bad the shadow mars what is an image in nearly 40 years had never seen the likes of here before nor since.
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Caption: [Editors note - accepted due to rarity - this is very rare mileage for a CP Train] This image needs an explanation, but unfortunately I do not have one. Here we see what appears to be the daily Toronto-Hamilton TH&B "Starlite" with CP 4564, 5545 and TH&B 74 coming off the CN 'Cowpath', of all places. The CP Goderich (now Hamilton) sub is in the foreground. Just by chance I happened upon this scene while checking out Bayview on an early summer evening. Too bad the shadow mars what is an image in nearly 40 years had never seen the likes of here before nor since.

Photographer:
A.W.Mooney [2139] (more) (contact)
Date: 07/04/1979 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CP 4564 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: CN Hamilton Jct. (search)
City/Town: Hamilton (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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4 Comments
  1. snake
    January 2, 2013 at 7:33 am

    I think the answer to your question is in the upper centre…looks like a slew of workers on the tracks…whether a switch replacement or derailment, resulting in this rerouting.

  2. awmooney
    January 2, 2013 at 7:57 am

    Perhaps that was the case…..I would have loved to have been there earlier just to see how this move was handled….but unfortunately never did meet any fans who were.

  3. headtailgrep
    January 2, 2013 at 9:48 am

    So basically, the derailment or maintenance was west of the Bayview Junction switch, and essentially it used the wye/cowpath to get into Hamilton?

  4. Todd Steinman
    July 4, 2016 at 11:47 am

    Maybe it was because of the great Mississauga derailment? But I was too young to know when that happened in 79…
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