Nostalgia & History > Train time at Frater (ACR)

Somewhat of an outpost along the Algoma Central, Frater, Ontario was a neat place. No city or town, no busy roads, and quiet except at train time. Shown is the southbound regular ACR passenger train pulling up to make the station stop. You had to drive a bit on a dirt road to get to the station but there were a few folks that got on here. If I remember one could catch 3 passenger trains here in the span of a couple of hours. While that doesn't sound like much, for a traffic sparse line like the ACR it was the place to be on August 18th, 1982.

Roger Durfee
Akron, OH

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Definitely an interesting photo.  We don't see many ACR photos on TO.
Thanks for the photo posting.
ALLEN

This photograph became particularly meaningful to me when I read the date it was taken. August 18th, 1982 is the exact day I was born... at 7:15 AM in Omaha, NE. This was taken the day my life began! Crazy! Thanks for sharing! :)

Tom Loftus
Omaha, NE

Nice shot of Train #2 Roger !  Cool to see GP38-2s assigned to passenger trains, and I think you might have a soft spot for that paint scheme too.  Just guessing ?

Is that Ted Ellis with his back to the camera?
 

GettingShort Wrote:
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> Is that Ted Ellis with his back to the camera?

Yes  

Roger Durfee
Akron, OH

perklocal Wrote:
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> Nice shot of Train #2 Roger !  Cool to see
> GP38-2s assigned to passenger trains, and I think
> you might have a soft spot for that paint scheme
> too.  Just guessing ?

Rod, you guess correctly !
 

Roger Durfee
Akron, OH