Back in time when we worked eight-hour days, the afternoon shift had some perks. Other than a lot of drinking afterward. Often after my 3-11 I could catch the EJ&E taking a train out of the refinery in Whiting, for Gary. Here's an example. EJ&E 851 getting ready to head to Gary on a fine 1996 evening.

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Doug Harrop Collection • April 6, 1976

A long, long time ago, before digital photography made the trading of images quick and easy, many photographers traded or sold slides to one another via the US Postal Service or at model train shows and swap meets. Doug was no exception, and his slide collection is peppered with color slides of trains from locations across the United States, far from where he lived.

This wonderful image captures first generation Soo Line power leading a colorful mix of freight cars through Rugby Junction, near the unincorporated town of Polk in Washington County, Wisconsin. The slide mount is marked April 6, 1976, and the original photographer's name is not listed.

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A westbound train stopping to work the North Yard at Davis Jct. GP38-2 number 363 is straddling the old CB&Q branch to Rockford, then operated by the Burlington Northern.

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CSX M692 departs the siding at NE Delano after meeting M653.

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QG 739 is on the move again, having tie down the two cars pulled from Rolland Paper on the junction track, the Ste-Thérèse-based crew face an another 57 miles of travelling before exchanging trains with the "Gatineau switcher" at Thurso.
QGRY built this connexion in 2000 between their Lachute subdivision (former CP) and the parallel Montfort subdivision (former CN) who could be seen at far left when the deal selling the Montfort was done.
The tri-light signal aspect once protected the diamond crossing between the two lines, located into the curve in background.

Boxcars were all empty and bound for the three remaining active paper mill left around Gatineau area. The cut of empty as well Sodium Chlorate hoppers on the tail end were billed for the huge ERCO plant in Buckingham,QC, the main reason of the line's survival over the years.

QG 739-15
2004
Milepost 33 Lachute subdivision
Ste-Scholastique,QC
June 15th 2011

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