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Date: 10/06/06 13:17
Big Boys North of the Border
Author: RDG630

Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia Railway M630's and M636's in the summer of 1997. One train a day each way between Sydney and Truro, but what a show.



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Date: 10/07/06 06:18
Re: Big Boys North of the Border
Author: Gonut1

Ah! Cape Breton. Was up there in 1986-87. There was a multi-car RDC service daily, a couple of freights and a lot of coal still coming out of Sydney. The steel mill was still sending plumes of pollution. Cape Breton Development Corp had a really clean fleet of green diesels pulling long strings of hoppers. I would have been nice to explore that operation further. All fairly quiet now east of the canal but there is some coal contracts pending for the power plant where the Sydney coal used to go.

Gonut

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