Canadian Railroads > Empty and Loaded Gypsum Train

From a recent flurry of slide scanning, here are some not so recent pictures of the Dartmouth-Milford unit gypsum train, back then known as 701.

Before it was renumbered 511, the gypsum turns out of Dartmouth were proper unit trains, 701 in the morning, and 703 in the evenings.  The first image here is the empty train at Enfield, NS, near MP 29 of the Bedford Sub, on its way to the mine on the morning of August 21, 2003.  The next day, I was in Windsor Jct. to record the return trip as the loaded train neared MP 16.  The grey company owned hoppers were new at this time, having replaced the old CN bathtub gons which required a high maintenance rotary dumper at the Wrights Cove pier.  A pair of SD75Is was also the typical power at the time handling 65 or so loaded hoppers, for a 9300 ton train.

GTD

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