A Whole Lot of Wagons
I never shot better that an A-B-A set of three wagons together in SOO days. The size of pure SOO sets of wagons was kind of limited by the lack of nose m/u on the A's. That wasn't a problem with the ex VIA wagons WC bought for primarily canyon service and 4 and even 5 units became fairly common on the Agawa canyon passenger train. Not so common was a pure set in freight service. As Don has mentioned there was a general order/instructions that they were not to lead in freight service( I had a general offer to buy a case of beverage of choice to any crew that would lead a freight with a wagon, and I did buy a little beer lol) but on this day SOGBA was ready to go at Soo yard and this was all that was available. The F's made a Steelton-Rudyard turn, they had a meet with GBSOA at Rudyard and the power was swapped and here is 1752, 1754, 1756 and 1751 leading the 40 cars of GBSOA away from the meet at Rudyard. The sound of wide open 567 music was filling the humid air as the wagons got down to work on this hazy July 28, 1998 morning.
A Whole Lot of Wagons
I never shot better that an A-B-A set of three wagons together in SOO days. The size of pure SOO sets of wagons was kind of limited by the lack of nose m/u on the A's. That wasn't a problem with the ex VIA wagons WC bought for primarily canyon service and 4 and even 5 units became fairly common on the Agawa canyon passenger train. Not so common was a pure set in freight service. As Don has mentioned there was a general order/instructions that they were not to lead in freight service( I had a general offer to buy a case of beverage of choice to any crew that would lead a freight with a wagon, and I did buy a little beer lol) but on this day SOGBA was ready to go at Soo yard and this was all that was available. The F's made a Steelton-Rudyard turn, they had a meet with GBSOA at Rudyard and the power was swapped and here is 1752, 1754, 1756 and 1751 leading the 40 cars of GBSOA away from the meet at Rudyard. The sound of wide open 567 music was filling the humid air as the wagons got down to work on this hazy July 28, 1998 morning.