November 13th, 2005
Brian reported that CP #167 had 2 GEVOs working the yard at Welland. Laura and I headed down to Kinnear yard to catch them at the yard office. We arrived about 90 seconds before the train did. The new crew found a marshalling violation on the train and it got tied up at the yard for another 3 hours while we darted aimlessly around Bayview Junction and Hamilton West on a relatively quiet Sunday afternoon. Eventually #167 got moving and we chased it up to the Junction, missing it there by a few seconds and going around by 1st Line-10th sideroad-Guelph Line to catch it in Campbellville.
Hamilton, Ontario
(map) Hamilton Ontario is an industrial region on the tip of lake Ontario.
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CP #167 enters Kinnear yard with 6 units, the last two being brand new ES44AC GE Evolution locomotives, fresh from Erie, Pennsylvania.
Bayview Junction, Ontario
(map) This is where the CN Oakville, CN Grimsby, and CN Dundas subdivisions meet at a great big wye, beside which is the CP Hamilton sub. This location encompasses CN Bayview Junction, Hamilton West, and Hamilton Junction.
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VIA #73 with 901 leading comes off the Dundas sub.
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CN #431 with one unit and no cars heads up the first third of a mile of the Dundas sub to wye.
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CN #431 heads down the cowpath to work Parkdale yard.
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CN #330 heads down the cowpath.
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CN #393 with an SD40, SD40-2W, and BNSF dash 9 start up the hill as CN #435 pops out on the North track behind them, obstructing all the latter's power.
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CP #167 with two shiny new GEVOs head up Hamilton sub, making the first daylight run of GEVOs to Guelph Junction.
Flamborough, Ontario
(map) This is a community at the top of the Hamilton sub between Waterdown and Guelph Junction. It is technically part of Hamilton, as a result of the amalgamations.
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CP #167 crosses the bridge at Carlisle.
Guelph Junction, Ontario
(map) Technically Campbellville, Guelph Junction is the junction of the Guelph Junction Railway -- currently serviced by OSR -- the CP Hamilton sub, and the CP Galt sub. It is between Milton and Galt on the CP Galt sub.
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CP #167 skates along the edge of the lake at Campbellville.