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6/13/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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Pair of 40s and a classic
Title:  Pair of 40s and a classic
Description:  A 91 car eastbound rolls past Dorval with a pair of GP 40s, and a GP 9 trailing.
Photo Date:  6/15/1989  Upload Date: 10/14/2015 2:26:36 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CN 9308(GP40) CN 9489(GP40-2LW) CN 4225(GP9)
Views:  959   Comments: 0
Old power for a local
Title:  Old power for a local
Description:  I caught this local at Wyoming Ont behind a pair of old Geeps. They were making pretty good time with 36 cars,
Photo Date:  6/19/1987  Upload Date: 5/5/2015 2:20:17 AM
Location:  Wyoming, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 4104(GP9RM) CN 4276(GP9)
Views:  936   Comments: 0
Through the valley
Title:  Through the valley
Description:  A short thunderstorm has taken the sun away as a westbound COFC train rolls along the St John River behind a pair of MLWs and a pair of EMDs, one a leased B(LE unit. Location is near Caron Brook NB
Photo Date:  5/28/1988  Upload Date: 3/10/2015 4:45:19 AM
Location:  Edmundston, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2103(HR616) CN 2002(C630M) BLE 847(SD9) CN 4285(GP9)
Views:  1214   Comments: 0
Closer to town
Title:  Closer to town
Description:  The westbound COFC train now rolls into Edmundston.
Photo Date:  5/28/1988  Upload Date: 3/10/2015 4:48:00 AM
Location:  Edmundston, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2103(HR616) CN 2002(C630M) BLE 847(SD9) CN 4285(GP9)
Views:  1479   Comments: 1
Mixed power
Title:  Mixed power
Description:  In 1982, VIA was still using some CN power on its trains. Here a Windsor-Toronto train arrives at London behind a CN GP 9.
Photo Date:  8/27/1982  Upload Date: 3/26/2013 12:57:19 AM
Location:  London, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CN 4401(GP9) VIA 6526(FP9A)
Views:  1225   Comments: 0
Station switcher
Title:  Station switcher
Description:  Some of the busier stations still had switch engines assigned. We see the London engine moving road power through the platforms from a recently arrived train.
Photo Date:  8/27/1982  Upload Date: 3/26/2013 12:59:40 AM
Location:  London, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CN 7152(SW8) CN 4401(GP9) VIA 6526(FP9A)
Views:  1400   Comments: 0
Waiting out the holiday
Title:  Waiting out the holiday
Description:  This GP 9-caboose set was idle over the Labour Day weekend, and will be back at it on Tuesday. That is one clean van!!
Photo Date:  9/5/1987  Upload Date: 5/25/2015 1:22:47 AM
Location:  La Prairie, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CN 4409(GP9)
Views:  768   Comments: 0
Clean Alco
Title:  Clean Alco
Description:  This RS 18 was showing off its bright red nose, looking really clean on a train that was otherwise covered in road grime. Of course, these units still had a future in those days, so it was not totally unheard of for them to get new paint and a wash.
Photo Date:  8/15/1980  Upload Date: 11/13/2016 4:41:55 AM
Location:  Bayview Junction, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 3738(RS18) CN 4418(GP9)
Views:  951   Comments: 0
Headed for TO
Title:  Headed for TO
Description:  An eastbound out of Aldershot heads through Bayview on onto the Oakville Sub, soon to be approaching Toronto. A westbound is in the distance, coming off the Oakville Sub heading for London.
Photo Date:  8/15/1980  Upload Date: 11/13/2016 4:48:03 AM
Location:  Bayview Junction, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 9651(GP40-2LW) CN 4418(GP9) CN 3738(RS18) CN 4563(GP9)
Views:  1240   Comments: 0
Out of the haze
Title:  Out of the haze
Description:  The area around Hamilton can be smoggy due to the heavy industry there, and sometimes the harbor looks fogged in. This train headed for Toronto rolls out of the fog and into Bayview as it comes around the end of the bay and heads east.
Photo Date:  8/15/1980  Upload Date: 11/13/2016 4:50:00 AM
Location:  Bayview Junction, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 9651(GP40-2LW) CN 4418(GP9) CN 3738(RS18) CN 4563(GP9)
Views:  1009   Comments: 0


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