TICK TICK TICK

ID # 15,082

From the September, 1966 issue of Trains Magazine.

GRAND TRUNK AND WESTERN NO. 6328

ID # 1,105

GRAND TRUNK AND WESTERN NO. 6328

In this photograph No. 6328, a mighty 1-8-4 on the Grand Trunk Western, is stopping to take water at Pontiac, Michigan, early one evening in 1958. At that time, most of America's railroad mileage was already operated by diesel-electric locomotives, but the G.T.W., the American subsidiary of Canadian National Railways, continued to wheel tonnage with steam engines. The G.T.W. was even pulling smoke-plumed commuter trains daily in and out of Detroit, right past the headquarters of General Motors, builder of most diesel engines. In fact, the "Trunk" seemed to be so firmly committed to steam in those Days that it occas-ionally borrowed coalburners from the Illinois Central and Burlington roads to keep its freight and passenger trains rolling. In 1960 it finally joined the diesel parade.

DON WOOD, TRAINS MAGAZINE

Grand Trunk Western Railroad Steam Locomotive #6037 at Chicago, Illinois in 1941

ID # 11,159

Grand Trunk Western Railroad Steam Locomotive #8312 at Chicago, Illinois in December, 1948

ID # 11,180