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VIA Rail Canada CANADIAN RAILWAY OBSERVATIONS Updated Version 07/27/07 __________________________________________________________ By William Baird August 2007 CRO needs your help. We are in need of a “logo” for our mast head. Please email your ideas with the subject line "CRO Logo", to [email protected] We will then chose the five best that truly represent CRO’s mission, and then have a contest to decide the winner. Thanks for participating. CANADIAN NATIONAL Note: During the editing process, some of this months photo links are no longer hyper-links, and you may have to Cut n’ Paste, to view the photo ... Sorry. CN Locomotives Retired since last issue : CN GP9RM 7249, on June 14th (unit is now at CAD-Lachine) DMIR SD9u 317, on June 25th (unit was formerly DMIR 167) CN SD40u's 6002, 6004, on June 26th BCOL RS18CAT 619, 620 on June 29th (Only eight RS18CAT`s left in service). CN SD40-2W 5243, on June 29th CN SD40-2's 5372, 5376, and 5383 on June 29th (All are ex-UP units). CN SW1200RS 7314, on June 29th (Already moved from Symington to Woodcrest) DMIR SD40T-3 415 on July 12th (This is a former SD45T-2 Tunnel Motor) SAR C39-8 7482, 7484, and 8606 on July 23rd (ex-CR and ex-NS) Note: There are now no former SAR locomotives active on the CN roster and there are now only eight SAVAGE RAILWAY units that remain to be retired. DMIR SD40T-2 414 on July 24th (This is a former SD45T-2 Tunnel Motor) CN SD40-2W 5282 n July 26th (failures) CN SD40-2W’s 5255, 5333, on July 27th (failures) Recently retired BCOL RS18m 621 at Woodcrest shop, July 7, 2007. http://csxchicago.gotdns.com:6003/CN_Trains/SmallPicsRoll65/0004628-R1-048-22A.jpg CN has provided CANADIAN PACIFIC with the following units to repay Horse Power hours to CP. CN C44-9W's 2604, 2628, 2682, and CN SD75I's 5733, 5746, and 5765. Bill Miller provided these sightings of the CN H-P-H units: CP train 240 arrived in Toronto 2207-20 with CN 5765/CN 5746, CP train 241 arrived in London 0203-21 with CN 5733/CN 2604, and CP train 243 arrived in London 0232-21 with CN 2628/CN 2682 CN has leased GP40-2LW's 9541, 9576, and 9590 to the HUDSON BAY RAILWAY, for summer grain service. CN has sold 60 units from their auction sale in May, with 10 units remaining unsold. Here is the complete breakdown of the locomotive dispositions: • NRE has purchased the following: CN GP9RM`s 4010, 4015, 4024, 4027, 4030, 4031, and 4034. CN SD40 5078 (renumbered NREX 5232) , 5233, DWP SD40's 5902, 5904, 5905; GTW SD40's 5912, 5922, 5925, and 5928; SAR C39-8 7483, 7488; SAR (RFRX) B23-7`s 4203, 4205, WC SD45's 6594, 7507, 7526, 7527, 7530, 7554, and NREX (ex-WC) SD45's 6416, 6417, 6418, 6419, and 6420, all ex-WC numbers 7514, 7551, 7638, 7498, and 7532. • PROGRESS RAIL has purchased the following: CN GMD1's 1063, 1078, 1082, BCOL B36-7's 3607, 3609, SAR C39-8 7486, WC SD45's 6497, 6529, 7515, 7522, and 7531. The five WC SD45's will be scrapped at JABCO Industries, in Chicago Heights, IL. • CYCLE SYSTEMS has purchased the following: WC SD45's 6588, 7501, 7502, 7506, 7512, 7519, and 7524. These units will likely all be scrapped as well. In mid-June, CN announced it will acquire 25 locomotives from EMCC and 40 new fuel-efficient, high-horsepower locomotives from GE in 2007 and 2008, in addition to the 65 locomotives already on order for delivery this year. CN's latest order is for 40 ES44DC locomotives from GE Transportation Rail, a unit of General Electric Company, and 25 SD70M-2 locomotives from Electro-Motive Canada, Inc. The GE units will be delivered between December 2007 and February 2008, with the GM's arriving in August 2008. CN previously ordered 50 SD70M-2s for delivery between August and October 2007, and 15 ES44DC units to come in November of this year. The SD70M-2s produce 4,300 horsepower, and the ES44DCs produce 4,400 horsepower and will permit CN to retire 145 of their older locomotives, and will likely begin re-gearing and de-rating older SD40-2's to SD38-2's for yard duty, to replace their aging GP9RM roster. The new locomotive orders are part of a major fuel conservation program by CN, which spent almost C$900 million on fuel in 2006. The 65 locomotives CN previously ordered for this year will be largely used to accommodate growth in traffic from the new Port of Prince Rupert Container Terminal, scheduled to start operations in October of this year. As anticipated, all of the 130 new locomotives CN has ordered for 2007 and 2008 will be equipped with DPU (distributed power capability), which allows for locomotives to be placed in the middle of a freight train and to be remotely controlled from the lead locomotive. Ken Lonovitch caught CN DASH 8-40CM 2415 at the UP Yard Center, in Dolton, IL, on June 21st, 2007. The unit has obviously been repainted, as it was delivered to CN in the late 1980’s in the sergeant stripes scheme. It was involved in a derailment in BC over a decade ago and the stayed at the derailment seen for many months after. Sometime in the late 1990’s it was finally moved to a shop (possibly Pointe-St- Charles in Montreal) and was repainted in this current scheme. http://csxchicago.gotdns.com:6003/CN_Trains/SmallPicsRoll65/0004628-R1-006-1A.jpg On June 20th, 2007 Walter Pfefferle caught this photo of CN 6027 SD40u leading the Triple Crown 145 with 72 trailers as it rolled through Ingersoll Ontario. http://railfan.thegrebs.com/CN/cn6027a On another occasion, Walter clicked train 145 blowing through with a recently painted CN 9592 GP40-2L, and 52 trailers. http://railfan.thegrebs.com/CN/cn9592a_001 Mark Hintz photo of CN GP40-2LW 9579 in North Milwaukee, WI in 2005. http://www.fuzzyworld3.com/pictures3/railroad/nm02/nd.html Retired former CN GP40-2LW 9421 was spotted at CN Woodcrest Shop on June 9th, being prepared for her new owners, WESTERN RAIL INC (WRIX). Another WRIX locomotive, GP40-2LW 9469 is currently operating leased to the HUDSON BAY RAILWAY, and will eventually be renumbered Omni-TRAX 3004. Photo of ex-CN GP40-2LW 9421 (photo by Ken Lanovitch) http://csxchicago.gotdns.com:6003/CN_Trains/SmallPicsRoll64/0002203-R1-031-14.jpg CN SD70M-2 8016 and BCOL DASH 8-40CM 4616 lay over at Yard Center, Dolton, Il. The pair was used on a transfer run to CNW Proviso yard the following day. Photo: http://csxchicago.gotdns.com:6003/CN_Trains/SmallPicsRoll64/0002203-R1-061-29.jpg BCOL 4616 had just completed repaying H-P-H on the UNION PACIFIC last month, and Ken caught it at Yard Center, Dolton, Il, June 16, 2007. (Photo's by Ken Lanovich) http://csxchicago.gotdns.com:6003/CN_Trains/SmallPicsRoll64/0002203-R1-059-28.jpg In June, CN repainted SD40-2(W) 5283 into the current CN livery at their Centralia, Illinois paint shop. On June 26th, CN train M35951 had the following consist: CN C44-9W 2516, WC GP38-2 2001, and WC GP38-2 2004 far from home enroute to Prince George, BC on CN's Fraser Sub. Both of these WISCONSIN CENTRAL locomotives were coming off repairs in Edmonton. CN GP9RM 4028, built as CNR GP9 4526, 50 years ago, has been chosen for a life extension. CN 4028 is receiving a Transcona rebuilt, 16-567-E, equipped with 645 power assemblies. Work is being done at NRE Dixmoor, since Transcona no longer repairs locomotives. Transcona now only rebuilds locomotive parts, but does not repair locomotives. Ever wondered what the CN brakeman’s point of view was like crossing two of Quebecs most famous bridges? Here are two images of a CN freight crossing The historic Quebec Bridge and the impressive Cap-Rouge Trestle Bridge, in what looks like the view from the cab of a CN GP40-2W. www.railpictures.net Pont de Québec : http://wwwrailpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=194427 Trestle de Cap-Rouge : http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=194428 CANADIAN PACIFIC CP Locomotives Retired since last issue : Nil CP SD90MAC-H's 9300-9303 are going to be returned to service in Winnipeg and will operate between Winnipeg and Thunder Bay and on the Prairie north line. CP 9301 and 9303 have already returned to service. CP SD90MAC-H 9302 Photo: http://www.trainweb.org/galt-stn/cproster/locomotive/9300s/cp9302.htm In early August CP will be leasing at least 10 CEFX SD9043MAC(U)’s coming from UNION PACIFIC. The numbers are CEFX 101. 103, 105, 107, 108, 111, 112, and 118, with more to come. Photo of CEFX 101: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=181652&nseq=0 CP has sold retired SD40-2’s 5603, and 5647 to PROGRESS RAIL. The units are moving to Birmingham, AL via Coutts, AB and BNSF. On May 23rd, CP tested out their new FP9Au's 4106 and 4107 on a local freight, ex- Calgary. Further inspection has revealed these units have ground relay and wiring problems, and they have returned to PROGRESS RAIL in Winnipeg.. The units have had the CPR beaver crests applied to their noses in Calgary. The units were only in Winnipeg For about 10 days and arrived back in Alyth on July 21stt.
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