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| On January 22, 1994 Diesel Division of General Motors switcher #57 is
sitting just east of the Quebec St overpass near the head end of a
westbound CP freight. Note the card in the window identifying it as EMD
57. Just ahead of the unit in the consist are newly-delivered GP 60
locomotives SP 9792/9789; right behind it is covered hopper SLSF 78904. |
By Peter Mumby
The
SW9 unit in today's photo first left London when it was delivered from
GMD as Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo 57 in January of 1951. When CP
assumed full control of TH&B in 1987, it was determined that the
end-cab switchers would be retired during 1988. #57 was subsequently
acquired by GMD, and it returned to London in the spring of 1989 to work
as the plant switcher. It operated wearing a patched TH&B paint
job for the next twelve months, but was decorated in this Diesel
Division scheme in time for the 40th Anniversary open house in June of
1990. On January 22, 1994 it was leaving London once again, this time
marshalled in a westbound CP freight, bound for its new assignment at
the parent EMD plant. I have a photo of this locomotive taken at the
EMD 75th Anniversary open house in September of 1997, and at that time
it was wearing full Electro-Motive paint and lettering. It was still
numbered as 57.
Check back later today for a second and possibly a third post...George
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