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A bit of sunshine pokes through the morning fog at Sherbrooke, Quebec, in the form of Canadian Pacific M424 #4205 sporting a fresh coat of "action red" paint on an otherwise miserable weather day. Something like this on the Sherbrooke sub always pushed away any negativism. With constant MLW power riding the rail here, it was difficult for any negativity to be found!
Entering Shady Dale, GA, a trio of CaterParrott Railnet (CPR) GP40-3's lead a lengthy train that originated in Madison to interchange with Norfolk Southern. The majority of the traffic on this day came from Georgia Pacific, making for a nearly dedicated train of boxcars and loaded chip hoppers.
ST EDSP is seen heading south in the snowstorm by CPR-33 in Deerfield, MA with MEC 505 leading the way.
The overnight VIA train #98 the "Northland" from Cochrane, Ontario meets sun light passing underneath the CPR mainline in the Don Valley of northern Toronto with FP9A 6540 leading the way - September 24, 1978.
Here a CPR plow extra pushed with a pair of snow hidden RS18's rolls out of Woodstock, Ontario on the St. Thomas subdivision, where at Ingersol it will turn south getting on the Port Burwell subdivision. Once on that sub she is headed for Tilsonburg and the large deep drifts located south of Ingersol on this line - February 1986.
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This shot I posted several years ago with the wrong information so it's only appropriate to set things straight today.
After arriving into Roxton Falls, Quebec, the crew of the Drummondville local pause for refreshments, and to take a hand off of lunch provided from yours truly for their wonderful hospitality.
The rails here did some center street running for a short distance in this village. Today this is completely paved and part of the bike path.
On my trip one unusual thing the crew did was to share responsibilities. They all at one point operated the locomotive and all rotated to the ground work, except for the conductor, who stayed in the van.
I myself was included to operate the 1839.
"You know how run, don't you"?, I was asked.
"Sure"!, so they let me take over for a ways, not even leaning over my shoulder as I ran. I believe I ran from Roxton Falls to the Route 55 crossing south of Drummondville.
It's not a difficult run, but there is a bit of a hill between Acton Vale and Drummondville. I was asked, "just keep it at 25", so I did what my step-father taught me. "Take off a little air, bail off, and use throttle your way through. A procedure he called, "power braking".
At Drummondville we stop to cut the van in the middle of the wye, and up comes the old head conductor.
"Who was running back there?!"
The crew had an, "Oh, shit" look on their faces.
"This young fellow was", they told him.
The conductor immediately snaps, "HA! I knew it wasn't any of you! That's the smoothest ride I ever had coming down the hil!"
With that, he turned and went back to the van.
As GSP points out in my previous post, he never shot the falls. Well, due to providing lunch here, either did I, but my traveling companion did on the northbound run while I was touring the line from the cab.
It can be seen here.
An eastbound CPR stack train lead by the 9135 has stopped for a crew change at White River, Ontario on June 1, 2003.
CP train #935 on a shelf above the rugged Lake Superior shoreline with a nice consist of SD40-2 5917 leading "Cat" powered M636M 4711 toward the crew change at Schreiber seen here passing through Mink tunnel near Cavers, Ontario on August 18, 1995.
A westbound CP Rail extra crawls through Campbellville. Ontario and it looks like some recent sidedump activity along the mainline to beef up that shoreline - June 2, 1979.
I first became acquainted with the SS Keewatin of the Canadian Pacific Railway as a youngster by way of David Plowdens wonderful photography in the classic book "Farewell to Steam". She did survive and was a museum boat in Douglas, Michigan until 2012 when she was towed to her old homeport of Port McNicoll north of Toronto on Georgian Bay for use in a development that fizzled. She was donated to the museum in Kingston, Ontario and began her tow there late this past Monday. Today she would enter the St. Clair river off of Lake Huron a continue toward Lake Erie. Here she is as viewed yesterday in the river at Algonac, Michigan . . . . . what a look - and that giant funnel - what a beauty she is !!
In the heat of the day, CaterParrott Railnet, train 15 is seen working hard at Shady Dale, Georgia on August 30, 2021.
Yesterday while out looking for fall colors to photograph, I thought to myself, "It sure would be nice if there was a little more red around". And then, there is was in the form of two Canadian Pacific Railway EMD SD30C-ECO locomotives in their CPR bright red paint. A few orange and yellow maple trees in the background would have looks nice. Davenport, IA.
Switching the yard at Chatham, Ontario (CPR Eastend) SD40 5527 leads a M636 passing the boarded up tower for the diamond with the C&O line to Sarnia. Here making up their train #918 the Chatham turn out of London which handled the C&O interchange, here back on January 19, 1985.
Doing the math 51 years ago this year, a westbound CP Rail freight has arrived at Windsor, Ontario. It is seen working thru the south end of the yard back to the engine terminal for fuel and servicing. Digging through my old note books the crew had us up to ride to the roundhouse in the FA, we had taken the tunnel bus to Windsor from Detroit. Then a long walk to the CPR, this power was C424 4240, RS18 8738 and FA1 4025 on July 4, 1973.
The red nose of CP 8829 (GE ES44AC) leads a westbound grain train through Indus, AB just after sunrise.
CaterParroott Railnet #8 is southbound with four Interfor loads outside of Thomaston, Georgia. May 7, 2022
A westbound CPR extra with sulfuric acid rolls toward clearing skies at Glencoe, Ontario behind an M630 and M636 4716 - April 1982.
This General Motors Electromotive Devision Diesel FP7 (EMD) is the ex Canadian Pacific unit 4069 and is on display at the West Coast Railway Heritage Park in Squamish, British Columbia.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Great Lakes fleet steamer Keewatin is seen resting at her longtime display berth on October 13, 2007 in Douglas, Michigan. On display since 1967, she was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. Launched on July 6, 1907 at 336'L x 43' W x 23'-7' draft retired in November 1965,
she was sold in 2011 and moved to her longtime former CPR port of Port McNicoll, Ontario in 2012.
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I recently rescued an armless and legless CPR dummy from an industrial rubbish bin and gave him a new life as a portrait model. He seemed happy enough with his new career and as it turns out is one of the best models I have ever worked with.
Canadian Pacific train Inco #2 nears the north end of Sprecher north of Sudbury, Ontario after picking up emtpys from International Nickle. They await an eastbound before heading north to deliver these emptys and pickup loads at Levac about 22 miles north on the Cartier subdivision. Here GP38-2 3113 leads RS18R 1834 and sister 3021 on August 29, 1997 nearing the end of the MLW era on the CPR.
Having just met an eastbound this CP extra for Windsor, Ontario is starting to pull out of the siding at Longwood with GP30 5000 leading a pair of M630's in May of 1987.
I'm still having a hard time coming to grips with the CPKC merger as so many things that seemed unusual and intriguing become the norm, while the memories of what was and what were start to feel simpler and better. It was necessary for both railroads to remain competitive, even after the merger the combined entity is still the smallest Class I. For me though, the CPR will always be the historic railway that built this country, proudly adorning the symbolic red and the beaver in one form or another. While I doubt this north country switch key at Pog is going anywhere anytime soon (I'd bet its been here forever and a day already), I'll document it before it too disappears and enjoy the nostalgia in the meantime.
Denzil is 31.6 miles west of Kerrobert on the Macklin Sub. I have been following 2212 since just west of Kerrobert and it's been slow going. But the light just keeps getting better and better.
The train of five empty ballast hoppers is going to grow here as they will stop to lift the cars in the siding.
Denzil was incorporated as a village in 1911. The 2021 population was 143, none of whom were evident while I was in town. The portion of the elevator closest to me was added later, the more classic original elevator is behind it.