On a warm Thursday early evening in July, CN 4107 is shown idling at the head end of a short three car consist. Further to tying down their tiny train, most likely the crew has cabbed it to a nearby restaurant. As shown, their train is made up of an empty center beam flat car, covered hopper car and combination door boxcar. The crew has either dropped off or picked up a car or cars at one of three Rymal sidings; CO-OP, to the south, or Shaw Pipe/Penn Lumber, both located to the north. They may have retrieved the combination door boxcar (CN 557596) from either Shaw Pipe or Penn lumber. The center beam may have also come from the Penn Lumber siding. The covered hopper car is simply along for the ride; there are no local loading/unloading facilities. This would be the last time I would see any traffic on the line. Freight volume, minimal as it was, would continue to decline and the rails would be lifted in 1993. Built in September of 1957 as GP9 CN 4123, CN 4107 would be remanufactured as a GP9RM in 1984 by CN Pointe St. Charles, and retired 2019.
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