Canadian Pacific Railway

A shot of Bill Linley's while we were standing at the Holland Avenue crossing of the Carleton Place Subdivision; you can barely see the interlocking signal to head downgrade into Ottawa West at the far right of thepic at the Parkdale Avenue crossing.

There was a 'team' track crossing Holland Avenue for any shippers who would receive a car at Ottawa West, and as there was no place to unload it there, this noon switcher would take it to the team track just north of Scott Street where there was room for a truck to get in and either load or unload the car. By 1965, with abandonment imminent, the team track is covered
in weeds, and you can just barely make out a bit of it at the far left bottom of the pic.

The overnight pool train from Toronto, #34 had come in with this set of power, RS-10 8559 and F7B 1915...presumably John Street only had the one road switcher for #34, so the 'B' unit was shanghied off #12 from Sudbury.
The 2 units were left together to switch Ottawa West yard's 'little yard', and then at noon, any traffic that came from Franceschini Pit on the Waltham Subdivision west of Shawville Quebec would be sent out to their 'plant 10' west of
Moodie Drive at the Francon concrete plant. Usually he had about a dozen old cross/twiners with 2 bays, but this day,
he only had 3 gondolas of sand to go out to the cement mixing plant. Upon this guy's return to Ottawa West, the units were sent over to Ottawa Union to handle #263. the afternoon pool train to Brockville, returning on #264 in the evening, then at Union, just leave his inward train for the CNR yard engine to lift out to the coach yard, and the outgoing engineer for #33
would get on the units, uncouple from #264, head over into one of the stub-end tracks and couple onto #33's outgoing train.
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