Canadian Railroads > MLW Monday - August 1964

These pictures are my first railfan shots taken in August 1964.  My camera at the time was my fathers Kodak Brownie loaded with B&W film.   The location is between North Junction and St Luc Junction in Montreal and the train is travelling northbound on the shoo-fly CPR built to facilitate the construction of the Cavedish underpass.   The Cavendish Mall was built just to the west of this location but in August of 1964 is was a farmers field.  

1 & 2.  MLW built FPA-2 4094 leads Alco built FB-1 4402.  4094 survived until 1977 and 4402 was traded into MLW in 1965 for C-424 4218.
3.  A shot looking northbound showing a pair of RDC's passing a freight with the entrance to St Luc in the distance.  

I apologize for the quality of these pictures.  They are scans of my B&W prints as the negatives have been lost.
 

Neil Compton
Calgary, AB

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Another picture from the same location showing what I think is the morning Quebec City train with FP9A 1409 leading.  
In 2011 I photographed the 1409 again in  Cranbrook BC where it is part of the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel collection.  Hard to believe it was 47 years later! 

Neil Compton
Calgary, AB

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Very interesting photos, Neil.  That second photo shows how late one of the original paint schemes lasted (4th unit).  Until now I had never even known that the paint scheme was applied to an RS10 or 18.

Rick

Neat shots.  I remember it well.

KG

Great shots Neil.  I'm roughly five to ten years younger than your gang, Stan, Phil Mason, KG so I missed seeing the CP Alco/MLW in action. The only two FPA-2s were a pair sitting at John Street,Toronto.  The other time was at St Luc yard where two rows of Alco Fs units were in line waiting for the scrapper's torch.

Gerry Gaugl
Ottawa ON