Canadian Railroads > A Previous U.S. Invasion of Ontario

No, not the War of 1812. As it has become common again to see power from the U.S. running through, here are a few from the previous occurrence in 2005/2006.

1) Dec 17, 2005 - Former Santa Fe 888 & 6858 are eastbound at Hamilton West in the late afternoon sun.

2) Jan 15, 2006 - CN 394 glides downgrade at Paris, with 4749, 8512 & 5544.

3) Feb 18, 2006 - Westbound through Paris on a frosty, but snow free winters day are 5421, 4768 & 339.



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But who's invading who? Doesn't CN now have more track south of the border then they do north of it?

4) Mar 4, 2006 - Regular trains on the Dundas Sub were 327 and 328, operated by CN for NS and which carried auto parts from Buffalo, NY, to St. Thomas, Ontario. Most often they ran with NS six axle power, but whatever was available at Buffalo was fair game. This day 327 has a pair of four-axles, BNSF 505 & NS 3527 at Paris.

5) Later that day a pair of CN units head east on 148, spliced by a CSX SD40-2.

6) Mar 5, 2006 - Usually, the power that went west on 327, would return the next day on 328. Rising early I made it to Copetown shortly before 328 started down the Dundas hill with 505 & 3527.



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7) Mar 5, 2006 - I picked up a westbound at Copetown, and with this lash-up couldn't pass on a chase to Paris. Included are 5776, 562 & 9068. In my youth I watched strings of empty ATSF reefers pass this way, but I never dreamed a warbonnet, even a faded one, would grace these rails. Perhaps CCMF knows what number the third unit carries in its CN incarnation.

8-9) Apr 15, 2006 - It was a double-edged sword when CN swallowed WC. For a while it meant we had SD45s running through in that handsome scheme of theirs. But personally, I wish the WC had carried on as a separate entity. CN 5780 & WC 6858 speed effortlessly across the flat land west of Lynden.

James Adeney
Toronto



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Perhaps a continuing invasion with the recent influx of "foreign" locomotives will at least make life interesting for all of us. Perhaps as much as the specially painted Norfolk Southern locomotives depicting merged predecessors under the NS banner are operating in many places and too
providing much fodder for internet railway listening groups such as TrainOrders. And then there was influx of foreign power on CP in the 1970's and 80's from Boston & maine, C&O, B&O Bessemer and Lake Erie, Lake Superior & Ishpeming and others.

I have to keep reminding myself these colourful locomotives are all the same, more or less under different shades of paint.

Bryce Lee