| Posted by Triplex on November 25, 2019 | |
Was this a carefully-selected shot, or did on-line traffic dominate that place and time?
|
Ballantyne was a very busy place, and still is albeit with fewer trains today. It was the point on the east-west mainline that was the entrance/exit to Montreal Yard, CN's main classification yard in Quebec. All freight trains to and from the west, east and south moved through this junction. In addition, all passenger trains to and from Toronto and Ottawa passed by on the mainline.
|
| Posted by Triplex on November 26, 2019 | |
What I meant is, almost all equipment seen here is CN, unlike the old modellers' axiom "50% home-road cars."
|
I have not done an in-depth analysis of train consists but can say from photo evidence the "50% home-road axiom" did not apply in most places in Canada - it was much higher. Unlike in the U.S. there were only two major railroads in Canada, CN and CP, both of which served coast to coast. What is seen in this photo is typical on both CN and CP in the era. It would vary by train and particularly destination, with trains destined for U.S. road interchange locations having fewer home-road cars.
|
|