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.