Trains This Day/Month in the Past

[bdw9535]

Conrail's CA-20 at Pavonia Yard, Camden, NJ, 10/08/13.

Bruce

   

[Charlie B]

10/09/1976 at Buckeye TBS, East Palestine, Ohio
   
Charlie

[bdw9535]

Paris, Ontario, 10/09/19.  Met up with Wayne(doctorwayne) and Ed (cn nutbar) for a couple days of railfanning in the Hamilton, Ontario area,  Great times.

Bruce

   

[bdw9535]

Bayview at Hamilton, Ontario, 10/10/19.

Bruce

   

[Charlie B]

Conway, Pa. 10/10/1976 (Has it really been a half a century ago?  
   

[Charlie B]

10/12/1977 Probably on its trip to the scrap yard, westbound at MP52 Fort Wayne Line.    
Charlie

[Charlie B]

10/13/2016, New Waterford, Ohio.     
Charlie

[Charlie B]

October, 1978. Eastbound at Edinburg, Pa.     
Charlie

[bdw9535]

At Conrail's Shared Assets Operations Pavonia Yard, Camden, NJ, 10/15/14.

Bruce

   

[Charlie B]

10/16/1977. Westbound at Brookdale Ave. East Palestine, Ohio    
Charlie

[Charlie B]

Westbound caboose hop. Brookdale Ave., East Palestine. Fall 1976      Charlie

[hillyard999]

Charlie,

you continue to post fascinating pictures.
from my perspective growing up as a west coast guy, thanks!

[Charlie B]

TV12, East Palestine, Ohio. October, 1978.     
Charlie

[Charlie B]

10/20/1979. I think the train is coming off the Galt subdivision, serving as CP’s main route into downtown Toronto. My guess is heading toward the Bathurst Street Yard. I took this from the Fort York park. My friend and I spent about 6 hours here taking pictures. It was the days of first generation diesels owning the Canadian railroads.     
Charlie

[BR60103]

Charlie: The building by the loco is Tecumseth St. Tower.
The tracks at the front are the lines along the Lakeshore and lead to Hamilton, Niagara Falls (and New York), London, Windsor and Michigan.
The loco is headed to Bathurst St yard or beyond through Union Station. The track it is coming down is CP+CN (each separate) and leads to London via Galt or Vancouver via Northern Ontario. The CN line also splits going to Sarnia or Vancouver.
I came in along the CN line for 25 years on the GO train and watched most of those buildings disappear.

The speedway at the front became under-utilized in the 60s when CN built a bypass north of Toronto for freight traffic. The government of the day looked at this and saw that they could more than double the commuter capacity of the highway that paralleled it just by buying a lot of passenger cars and a few locomotives, rather than adding 50 miles of 4-lane highway.