CANADIAN LOCOMOTIVE SHOPS

Global Railway Industries: (RB Recycling / CADRAIL):

 With the locomotives  coming for modifications at three CP shops, CADRAIL (Montreal) has been contracted to do engine change-outs on several CP SD9043MAC’s. Three of these, 9102, 9142 and 9157 were noted at Cadrail in May.  However due to lack of space at the Lachine facility 9142 was returned to the St-Luc Diesel Shop.  

MI-TRAIN painted RBRX F59PH 18533 (ex-GO 533) was enroute back from Michigan to RB Recycling in Lachine, QC over CN in mid-May. Richard Marchi caught this unit last year in fresh paint at CN – Taschereau Yard.

On May 1st Michael Berry clicked GMTX GP38-2 2193 at CAD for repairs, CP SD9043MAC 9142 for an engine-changeout, former CP SD90MAC-H 9301 being stripped and cut up for scrap, and the  Cadrail LRC test bed.   

Guy-Pascal Arcouette took photos of  some of the units he noted at Cadrail in late April: (ex-VIA) LRC 6914, Cadrail (ex-CP 8024) RS23 2001, GMTX GP38-2 2193, (Ex-BNSF) HLCX SD40-2 7230, (ex-SP) HLCX SD40-2 6340, (ex-UP) CEFX SD40-2 3117, CP SD9043MAC 9102 and likely the last complete shot of CP SD90MAC-H 9301.

Industrial Rail Services (IRSI) – Moncton, NB

In June IRSI are expecting to release former CP RDC 9251 fully rebuilt and repainted and now renumbered VIA 625 while Industrial Rail Services completes repairs and then repaints VIA RDC 6250 (damaged in a grade-crossing incident), VIA is using IRSI RDC #6202 fully lettered for VIA for  service on the Sudbury-White River, Ontario run. 

VIA LRC rebuild car 3317 should be released to VIA the last week of May.

As well, six PTKA GT38Ace locomotive  EMDI export units are coming to IRSI for truck reguaging.  The IRSI facility has prepared a track now to handle them. The first four  export units riding on flats were spotted in late May in Gordon Yard, the first four of six for reguaging.  John Richard  photographed one of these PTKA GT38Ace locomotives in Transit to IRSI in Moncton, NB

 CANAC- Montreal, QC:

 Canac has forwarded CANX SW1200RS 1349 and spare parts to NRE in Silvis, IL.  It had been stored at the American Motive Power in Pointe St-Charles for a few weeks, and at the CANAC Hickmore Ave Shop, wich is now empty and up for sale.  

© CRO June  2011