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In the mid-1970s the C&O and Canadian Pacific cooperated with a pair of Chicago-Toronto run-through freights, eastbound #942 and westbound #937. After a short time, Canadian Customs restricted the C&O units to Windsor-London, and after a couple of years, complaints from CP enginemen about the GP30/30s assigned by the C&O to the trains ended the run-though arrangement. On February 20, 1975, GP30 3003 rolled #937 westward past the depot at Elmstead, Ontario in classic scene of railroading in rural Canada that included a grain elevator and county depot. Complaints from CP crews about uncomfortable cab chairs and electrical problems on the C&O units led to power being changed off at Windsor. (Emery Gulash)

Photograph from Chesapeake & Ohio Railway In Color Volume 2 by Jeremy F. Plant & William McClure..

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