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Three of a kind
This is photo number 500 for me here, and these photos now account for a combined 120k + views, so thanks everyone. I started this account last year as I was sitting on way too many photos from over the years to just keep hoarding them to myself, and while Flickr isn't perfect, I've mostly enjoyed the experience so far and it's been great to see everyone else's shots and stories from various places and times across the decades.
This is ONR 214 coming in off the Temagami Sub in North Bay back in the summer of 2016 with a matching trio of SD40-2s, passing the old searchlight signal that once guarded the diamond with the CN Newmarket (formerly Alderdale) Subdivision. This exact location was is/known as Dykstra and the track in the foreground used to connect with the Newmarket Sub through another switch right in front of where I was crouching to take this. You can see the wider ties where the switch was. This connector was used as a sort of bypass for the main ONR yard and was removed some time after the Northlander was cancelled in 2012. The remaining spur in the foreground serves a local scrap dealer and is one of only 2 customers left in all of North Bay that sees regular rail service. All three locomotives pictured have also since been rebuilt/repainted. It was extremely difficult to get a matching trio of 40s back then, and it's gotten much harder now. This territory is now primarily home to the SD70M/SD75i fleet while ONR's SD40-2s are staying north of Englehart most of the time unless they come back south for work in the shops.
Three of a kind
This is photo number 500 for me here, and these photos now account for a combined 120k + views, so thanks everyone. I started this account last year as I was sitting on way too many photos from over the years to just keep hoarding them to myself, and while Flickr isn't perfect, I've mostly enjoyed the experience so far and it's been great to see everyone else's shots and stories from various places and times across the decades.
This is ONR 214 coming in off the Temagami Sub in North Bay back in the summer of 2016 with a matching trio of SD40-2s, passing the old searchlight signal that once guarded the diamond with the CN Newmarket (formerly Alderdale) Subdivision. This exact location was is/known as Dykstra and the track in the foreground used to connect with the Newmarket Sub through another switch right in front of where I was crouching to take this. You can see the wider ties where the switch was. This connector was used as a sort of bypass for the main ONR yard and was removed some time after the Northlander was cancelled in 2012. The remaining spur in the foreground serves a local scrap dealer and is one of only 2 customers left in all of North Bay that sees regular rail service. All three locomotives pictured have also since been rebuilt/repainted. It was extremely difficult to get a matching trio of 40s back then, and it's gotten much harder now. This territory is now primarily home to the SD70M/SD75i fleet while ONR's SD40-2s are staying north of Englehart most of the time unless they come back south for work in the shops.