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Date: 11/20/17 05:24
MLW Monday - Uphill Slowly
Author: kgmontreal

West of Montreal on CP's double track mainline the first obstacle to slow a freight trains's progress is St Lazare Hill, a grade from Dorion to St Lazare. Today the grade barely slows a pair of AC4400s but in first generation diesel days it dragged down westbound freights. Shown here is a mixed freight in the spring of 1974 behind an RS-18/RS-10 combo pullling hard as its smoke show illustrates.


Ken Goslett

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Date: 11/20/17 05:36
Re: MLW Monday - Uphill Slowly
Author: hoggerdoug

Nice image, no doubt the units are in notch nine. "uphill slow, downhill fast, tonnage first, safety last". Doug

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Date: 11/20/17 06:57
Re: MLW Monday - Uphill Slowly
Author: rschonfelder

hoggerdoug Wrote:
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> "uphill slow, downhill fast, tonnage first, safety
> last". Doug


Boy has that outlook ever changed.

Rick

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Date: 11/22/17 15:59
Re: MLW Monday - Uphill Slowly
Author: feclark

What a fabulous shot; narrow stripes, tuscan and grey, smoke up the wazoo, cross bucks, and an EB that had the decency to get its van the heck out of the way on time! When everything comes together ...
Fred

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