April 30th, 2006
We went to North Bay to see what we could find there and caught CN #450 passing ONR North Bay station, the passenger trains, 697 and 698, and then headed South, catching #698 at Washago along with CN #301 and #300, followed by CP #105 at Alliston.
Alliston, Ontario
(map) Alliston is mile 44 of the CP Mactier sub and hosts a large but mostly inaccessible Honda factory.
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CP #105 crosses Industrial Parkway on the CP Mactier sub at Alliston.
May 27th, 2007
We went to Palgrave for CP 222-25 with the MPEX 601 (new GO MP40), working our way north to Alliston waiting to hear it come. It did come, after many hours, in a rain storm. We got it at Ypres and again at Spence (Alliston Honda storage yard), but were not able to get it again further south as he was a straight shot to Toronto yard. We also got the SSR at the start of the day and GEXR #431 when we got back to Guelph.
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One of CP's Honda jobs switches the south end of Spence yard.
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A lengthly Honda job pulls into Spence yard.
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A Honda job leaves Spence yard with a cut of racks to go the two miles up to the Honda plant.
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CP #222 pulls into Spence yard with a long cut of racks, having left the rest of its train a few miles away in Ypres.
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CP #106 shows up in strong rain as we record out our open windows.
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CP 5772 brings a cut of autoracks back out of Alliston Honda to Spence yard.
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CP #222 crosses 13th sideroad just outside of Alliston.