Canadian Railroads > MLW Monday Dorval Jan 1969.

For MLW Monday on the final day of August here's a double barrelled, first generation CN lashup.  Leading is MLW RS-18 3740.  Trailing are a pair of Fairbanks-Morse passenger C-Liners running out their final months in freight service.  CN's CPA-16-5 and CPB-16-5 units were needed during 1967 for the heavy passenger train loadings brought about by Expo 67 in Montreal.  But thereafter they became surplus and were finally pressed into freight service.  The train is eastbound at Dorval in January 1969.

KG



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/31/15 04:55 by kgmontreal.

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Great shot and very interesting.  I don't suppose you were into freight cars back then because I'd love to see any of those Trailer Train cars with the Cats on them.

Rick

Nice !

rschonfelder Wrote:
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> Great shot and very interesting.  I don't suppose
> you were into freight cars back then because I'd
> love to see any of those Trailer Train cars with
> the Cats on them.
>
> Rick

Unfortunately, film was too expensive to "waste" on freight cars.  I wish I had shot more freight cars.

KG

 

Nice shots! I wonder if this unit along ever hauled the Matapedia-Gaspe train? I rode behind them, they were AWESOME on that train. We would hang out the "dutch doors " all the way to Gaspe (202 miles) and listen to the lone unit struggling up the grades with , I think 5 to 7 cars if my memory is correct! :D We would get what we called "cinders" in our eyes from the exhaust and could hardly see by the time we would get to Gaspe!
Ahh  the good old days...

Anything is possible.  But for ahuling a passenger train a 3100 series RS-18 would have been more likely.

KG

Anything is possible.  But for hauling a passenger train a 3100 series RS-18 would have been more likely.

KG