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Global Railway Industries: (RB Recycling / CADRAIL):
Former GO F59PH RBRX 540 is now renumbered RNCX 1893 and has left Montreal. The had been in storage at the Pointe St-Charles Yard and left February 11th arriving in Buffalo, NY February 27th via CN. Brendan Frisina took this great shot of GO 540 while still in Toronto commuter service. Her history is RNCX 1893, ex-RBRX 18540, nee-GO Transit 540 (GMD A-4879, built in Jan-1990).
CITX (CEFX) GP40-3 6537 has moved to Cadrail in Lachine, QC for repairs after being stored unserviceable on the GEXR for over a year. CP SD9043MAC 9157 and HCLX SD40-2 7161 were noted at Cadrail on March 24th Rebuilt VIA F40PH-3 6425 was released from Cadrail in March with 26 of the remaining 53 units now rebuilt. On March 1st these F40PH-2’s were undergoing rebuild at the facility: 6407, 6409, 6411, 6418, 6448 and 6449. Industrial Rail Services (IRSI) – Moncton, NB The first of the rebuilt LRC coaches, #3315, was photographed by Wendell Lemon. On March 4th it moved to Montreal on the rear of VIA 15, out of Moncton, New Brunswick.
Industrial Rail Services in Moncton received RDC 6250 which had been on the Sudbury-White River, Ontario run, and arrived at Moncton, New Brunswick last wee. VIA will receive the "prototype" RDC #6202 (ex-VIA) owned by IRSI, for temporarily and fully lettered for VIA while RDC 6250 gets rebuilt. Chris McMahon submitted these photos he took of IRSI #6202 a few years ago. It was rebuilt a few years back and is kept at their shop in Moncton, and used as a demo unit and on various special runs such as CN's Safety Days for the kids. When ready, she will move on the tailend of VIA 15, enroute to Ontario. As of March 17th there were five RDC's in the shops getting stripped down/rebuilt, numbers are unknown, but 6250 will eventually return to service following repairs and rebuild at IRSI.
In mid-March, IRSX RDC-2 6202 is expected to arrive in Sudbury to relieve the wrecked 6250. VIA RDC-4 6251 (ex CP 9251) currently undergoing rebuild at Industrial Rail in Moncton, and may be completed by the end of April. Diesel Electric Service (DESX) - Sudbury, ON DESX GMD1m 1127 arrived at Agrium in Kapuskasing in mid-March. It will be used at Agrrium temporarily, relieving AGRX SW8 7732 which arrived at DES for maintenance in late-March. DESX 8705 (ex AGRX S13m 8705, nee-CN 8705) was sold to K&K recycling, and cut up on site (Diesel Electric Service).
NRE – Capreol, ON CANAC / Savage Lambton Diesel Services -Sarnia, ON © CRO April 2011 |
