Heading home to Manitoba I stopped at Rugby, which had a manned station at the time, and was told a westbound was coming within minutes. I took the photo and headed on my way not realizing at the time the significance of the shot. A solid set of covered wagons in paint schemes of a post merger BN, the trailing unit is in NP colours.
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