WC 6581,6587.814 growl thru Malacca with ore loads bound for interchange to the CNW at Hermansville. This train had a particularly slow trip across the old Soo from Ladysmith east and had outlawed at Dunbar. I can't remember if it was on it's 3rd or 4th crew since leaving Steelton, but the load date of the 11th tells the story. I had been over chasing the E&LS when I heard the crew call in a departure from Dunbar that went something like this "WC 6581 ready to go at Dunbar, with 6581,6587 and-long pause-814 and 87 loads".Disp. North answered with "814 eh, bet it's adding a lot to this trip". Probably long ago in the early to mid 70's the 814 may have locked horns with an ore train in it's CNW career, but at this point it probably wasn't doing much toward moving this train. In any case the WC with its avalanche of winter ore trains was probably just glad to have anything that ran and kept the crews from freezing.
