Twelve thousand horsepower of GM 40-series diesels roll a westbound Canadian National manifest through Brockville, Ontario. Assisting the lead SD40 are three GP40-2W’s.
A Toronto-bound train from Montreal backs off of the CN main line at Brockville, Ontario. It is coupling to the Ottawa section, which has arrived on the CP branch from Smiths Falls.
One of the largely unseen aspects of the consolidation/separation of Ottawa and Montreal sections of trains to/from Toronto was the turning of the power that arrived from Ottawa on the CP branch f... (more)