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bobyar2001

Post subject: CPR 1258 on commuters

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:03 pm

Joined: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:35 am
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Location: Wilton, NY

Just a nice old photo of one of the G5s on a commuter train (with a D&H unit beside) at what looks like Westminster Street in Montreal West, in October 1958:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... 0-6-58.jpg

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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:48 pm

Joined: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:35 am
Posts: 8139
Location: Wilton, NY

CP steam at Montreal West, plus a few others elsewhere, see info with photos:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... 0-6-58.jpg

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... 0-6-58.jpg

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... -29-58.jpg

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... 0-4-58.jpg

St Luc coal chute, Montreal:

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... -29-58.jpg

When we make it across the border, we tie up the engines here, and it is still called the coal chute, despite the concrete edifice being replaced with a diesel fueling platform and sanding facility.

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... 0-6-58.jpg

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... -10-56.jpg

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi? ... -25-58.jpg

Sorry, none of these locomotives survived..

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