Years ago, I worked at a place that backed onto the CP main in Don Mills.
I could tell how many cars GM Oshawa was planning to build next day as a train
of flat cars (perhaps Trailer Trains?) with 4 stacks of automobile frames per
car went eastbound each day behind 2 rebuilt RS18’s. Later in the day, a train
of empties behind the same 2 locos went westbound. The train varied from 10 -
23 cars. I believe the frames were made by an outfit in Galt or K-W.
On Jan 5, 2020, at 1:50 PM, Richard McQuade (Redacted sender "richardmcquade"
for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yesterday afternoon around 2pm I saw what had to be the longest train of
empty auto racks I've ever seen westbound on the CPR main through Etobicoke.
Judging by the wide variety of road names on the cars, besides the length of
a train of empty auto racks heading westbound, I can't help but think that CP
is helping to empty the GM yard at the Oshawa car plant that closed on Dec
31. The closure ended over 100 years of auto production in Oshawa.
