Nice catch - thanks for sharing this lit... big gem!
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My grandfather and I used to stand at Danforth Station in Toronto in the mid 1940s and watch trains go by (that was one of his ideas of "entertaining" me when I visited with the grandparents, the other being a trip downtown to the Toronto star newspaper where he worked so we could watch the presses run- without ear protection in those days, bbut I digress!). These beasts led double-headed freights from Mimico Yard to Scarborough Junction. The station dispatcher would always go trackside as trains came up the hill and hand message sheets clipped to bamboo hoops to the fireman on each locomotive. The 4100s, after cutting off, would then run backwards to Mimico to pick up another train. My personal favorites to watch were the 6400 streamlined engines leading Montreal trains and these 4100s. I was unaware that any 41's survived. Made my day to learn one made preservation.
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