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Global Railway
Industries: (RB Recycling / CADRAIL):
Michael Berry
clicked Roberval & Saguenay 50 at CAD on April 8th. The model is Super
7 rebuild of an ex-ATSF U23B, and was rebuilt at the old MLW plant in
East End Montreal during the 1980's by GE.
GMTX GP38-2 2193 was shot
by Mike Berry at CAD on April 8th
beside CP SD9043MAC 9157 which has arrived for repairs.
Other arrivals for
repairs at CAD in early April included CEFX AC4400CW 1024, HLCX SD40-2
7230 (BN green), HLCX 6340 (SP grey and red),
(CEFX) GP40-3 6537. HLCX
6340 and 7230 were shot by Mike Berry at the Lachine facility April
9th.
28 of the remaining 53 VIA F40PH-2’s units now rebuilt. In April
these were undergoing rebuild into F40PH-3’s at the facility: 6407,
6409, 6418, and 6448 plus three others. VIA 6411 was released in early April and is
now in service.
Ex-CP SD90MAC-H
9301 is seen parked on the CP-CADRAIL interchange
spur awaiting its turn to be scrapped in Lachine, QC. Nearby in the
facility Mike clicked the severed cabs off of CP 9302 and 9303 April
8th.
The last of the CP
SD90MAC-H series 9301 appears to face off against its slightly more
successful and less powerful cousin, an SD9043MAC (CP 9157). Destined
for stripping and scrapping, by the time you read this, 9301 may no
longer exist! Taken by Mike Berry on April 9th at CAD, Lachine, QC.
Industrial Rail
Services (IRSI) – Moncton, NB
While Industrial Rail
Services completes repairs and repaints VIA RDC 6250, VIA is
using IRSI RDC #6202 fully lettered for VIA for service on the
Sudbury-White River, Ontario run. Former CP RDC 9251 is expected to
be released from IRSI in late April and has been renumbered VIA 6251.
Wearing fresh paint,
National Gypsum (NGCX) was released in mid April following an
IRSI rebuild. Two months ago, NGCX 506 was also released in fresh
paint following rebuild at IRSI.
As we reported last
month the first of the rebuilt LRC coaches, #3315, was released on
March 4th and moved to Montreal on the rear of VIA 15, out of Moncton,
New Brunswick.
As business is very good, we have
heard there are currently about 180 employees working at IRSI.
Diesel Electric
Service (DESX) - Sudbury, ON
This former VIA LRC
was shot by James Lalande at the Diesel Electric Service shop in
Sudbury, Ontario on April 9, 2011. This locomotive had been prepared
and repainted for export to S. Africa a few years back but the sale
never guided to fruition. The LRC has been stored there ever since.
James also caught HCRY 3802 and 3010 outside of the Huron Central
shops on April 9th. DESX and HCRY both share the same shop building
in Sudbury, ON.
NRE/Alco (NREX) - Capreol, ON
Ex-CP SD40-2 5771,
ex-HCRY GP9 208, ex-ONR GP9 1602, and NREX SD40-2 5607 were some of
the stored locomotives noted at NRE in Capreol Ontario on April 9th.
Tucked behind but impossible to read the cab numbers are two other CP
SD40-2’s, CPRS 5620 and one in St. Lawrence & Hudson paint, and
Minnesota Commercial RS3 307 is still there too. Some of these have
been stored at NRE for several years now.
Dear CRO readers …
We are looking for
accurate current news (emailed updates, sightings with locomotive
numbers or photos), for the following Canadian repair shops:
NRE – Capreol, ON
CANAC / Savage
Lambton Diesel Services -Sarnia,
ON
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