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Interesting photo!!! But I have to laugh at the caption. Towers!!!! K-Mart???? You sure are dating yerself, sd…….
) Yeah, yeah, I know they were around back then. I always went to Woolco. 
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Wild… so as Dan exampled.. this is a unit before rebuild with rear number boards…
so why number boards and why not just leave it like this?
A few years before this shot was taken, a train stalled on the first significant grade on the Galt Sub, west of Streetsville. The following train nosed onto the van (caboose) of the stalled train which was situated about half a mile west of the station, & they whole mess started up. When the van of the first train was on the curve west of what is now Meadowvale GO station, the fist train went into emergency. The trailing train which did not have air cut in, kept shoving long enough to crush the van of the fist train. No injuries resulted, but a new rule was issued requiring assisting trains to uncouple their power from their train & cut the air into the train being assisted. Worth noting, stalling almost never occurred one welded rail was installed a year or two after this shot. I think this was due to better adhesion on CWR and better motive power as 1st generation power became less common.