Equipment for the 1974 edit
ion of the Canadian Pacific Display train is on the tail end of a freight at North Bay, Ontario on June 24, 1974. Working from right to left CP 439442 is the freight’s van. In front of that is CPR business car no. 1 on loan from the Canadian Railway Museum. It’s construction date is uncertain but at the time this photo was taken it was easily over a century old.
Next up is First-class passenger car Number 141. Constructed in Montreal in 1907 for use as a commuter coach, it was withdrawn from service in 1951 and converted into a bunk car. It was cosmetically restored for use in the filming of The National Dream.
The van ahead of 141 is number 436954, built at CPR's Angus Shops in Montreal in 1928. The final item is boxcar 500 built in 1913. It survived as a tool c
ar until being restored for the The National Dream.
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Photo Corner is a page of my photographs of railroading in Canada and abroad. (Abroad? On a site dedicated to Canada's railways? Well the photos were taken by a Canadian.)
I have limited the number of photographs on the page to two-dozen (give or take a few) to keep things simple and fresh. On occasion there will be a link to a page with more photographs of a particularly interesting subject. The pictures added could be as recent as that day or taken way back before I had grey hair. As images are added at the top, photos are deleted at the bottom of the page.
Enjoy!
Jim Sandilands
Montreal
June 27, 2012
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It’s only a few days before C
hristmas 1975 (December 21 to be exact) and Canadian Pacific E8A 1800 is at Montreal West with a longer holiday edition of the Atlantic Limited.
VIA 6787 on 
train number 35 to Ottawa at Dorval on May 3, 1981. Note the third car in the consist - an old-school heavyweight.
It’s October 24, 1981 and a classic ABB
A set of GM cab units is a rarity. Clinchfield railroad 800, an A unit is closest to the camera and A unit CRR 200 is at the other end. In between are B units 250 and 869. Some railroad historians describe No. 800 as an F5 because it was a transitional model to the F7. When built, No. 800 was classified as a Phase V F3A. This interesting locomotive has been preserved.
Dante is pronounced daint as in paint.
Toronto to Montreal train 65
0 with only 4 cars is seen at Pointe Claire pulled by RS-18 3104. The date is July 4, 1976 - America’s 200th birthday.
CP Mountain Subdivision, British Columbia
On July 9, 1974, Canadian P
acific’s Display Train is on route from Fort Macleod, Alberta to Revelstoke, British Columbia. It’s in the care of GP9 8642. This edition of the Display Train included Canadian Pacific 4-4-0 144 as well as business car 1 built around 1864 by Crossen.
Point Saint Charles (Montreal), Quebec
Montreal Birney car 200 rest
s between filming sessions on Hibernia street in October 1980. This street in the Point Saint-Charles district of Montreal “portrayed” a 1930s Quebec City street for the filming of The Plouffe Family.
This Birney car was borrowed from the Canadian Railway Museum (Exporail) and was run on the street under its own power making it the last streetcar to operate in Montreal.
Canadian Pacific 7041 is sh
own at Glen Yard on May 1, 1966. This longtime Glen resident was noted for having different trucks—an Alco blunt truck under the cab and a more modern AAR truck under the nose. When S-2 7041 was outshopped in April 1946 it had two blunt trucks as did all S-2s.
Canadian National FP9A 65
41 leads train number 55 the Bonaventure past the entrance to Tashereau yard on May 18. 1975.
Southern SW10 is at Durham,
NC on November 10, 1976.
MTC observation car 4 bein
g prepared for shipment to the Connecticut Trolley Museum on Feb. 15, 1967. The car had been in the private collection of H.J. OConnell who acquired the car from the Montreal Transportation Commission in 1959. It is aboard CPR flat car 301000.
Town of Mount Royal, Quebec
Canadian National steeple-cab electric 201 enters Mount Royal on the morning of April 4, 1966. There were only three of these locomotives. Two of them operated together leaving the single unit to handle long commuter trains such as the one shown here.
Grand Trunk Western 1510, an SW12
00, is laying over at the Delaware and Hudson yard at Rouses Point, NY on July 27, 1966. The locomotive worked its way over from the Central Vermont at St Albans.
Notice the body of an old maintenance of way car used as a shed on the right.
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Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) 1320 on Train 22 at Dorval on June 29, 2002.
Maine Central (MEC) GP7s 5
69 and 562 at the Roundhouse in Rigby Yard, South Portland, Maine on July 6, 1965. The 562 bacame Springfield Terminal (ST) 23. The 569 went to Delaware & Hudson keeping the number 569 then returned to MEC still as 569 before becoming ST 26.
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
Ffestiniog Railway Blanche 
gets some pre-run attention on May 11, 1985.
In July 1967, CN RS-18 370
3 and a steam generator car have just arrived from Montreal on the summer-only Saturday "beach train" to India Street in Portland, Maine.
The massive structure in the background is the former Grand Trunk New England Grain elevator now largely unused since its heydays in the early 1920s. (It finally closed in 1968.)
On October 17, 1977 Innsbr
uck streetcar 64 makes its way through the streets of this beautiful Tirolian City. The car's PCC heritage is obvious.
On May 23, 1965, Canadian National FPA-4 6783 leads the afternoon Montreal to Toronto pool train into Montreal West. Jointly operated by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National, this train left CP's Montreal Windsor Station and crossed over to Canadian National at Dorval for the remainder of the journey to Toronto. This interest operation ceased on October 31, 1965.
The equipment was maintained at CN's Point St. Charles shop and deadheaded out to Dorval where it did a backing move over to CP before backing up all the way into Windsor Station.
Val Royal, St. Laurent, Quebec
A nocturnal Canadian National freight out of 
Taschereau Yard trundles through Val Royal station on the evening of December 29, 1964. CN 3843 is a Montreal Locomotive Works RS-18.
Adding cars to the Ontario
Northland’s Northland on Canada Day 1977.
