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Walter Pfefferle caught CP 6066, HLCX 8033. CP 5966 and CITX 3070 rolling through Woodstock Ontario April 21st, 2011

 

 In April the following CP-leased locomotives were on the property:

 CEFX (AC4400CW) 1002, 1006, 1007, 1014, 1018-1020, 1023, 1024, 1026-1059,

 CEFX (SD40-2) 2786, 2790 (in the computer but lettered CITX 2790,2791, 2797, 2802, 2803, (3106, 3109 at St. Luc tied up but on lease), 3112, (3117 at St. Luc tied up but on lease), 3120, 3121, 3127, (3128 at Toronto in service), 3130, 3133, (3137 at St. Luc tied up but on lease),

(3139, 3143, 3145, 3148 at Coquitlam tied up but on lease), 3149, (3151 at Toronto in service), (3155 TUUS at Moose Jaw, but on lease), 3160, 3163-3165, (3166 in service at Toronto), 3168, 3172, 3173, 3175, 3176, 3181, (3182 at Coquitlam tied up but on lease), 3183, 3184, (3188 at Coquitlam, tied up but on lease).

 CITX (SD40-2) 2783, 2785, 2792, 2794, 2796, 2799, 2804, 3008,        

(3020 Tied up serviceable at Coquitlam, still on lease), 3024, 3026,

(3032 at Coquitlam tied up but on lease), (3035 tied up at Toronto),           

3036, 3053-3067, 3070-3075, 3077-3083, (3086 at Coquitlam, tied up but on lease), 3088-3093, 3095, 3097-3102, 3105  (in the computer comes up as CEFX 3105),  3110, 3157, 3170, 3177

 HLCX (SD40-2)  6206,6299, 6340, 6341, 6844, 7003, 7008, 7009, 7161, 7191, 7193, 7205, 7230, 7231, 7233, 8033 (JFDX) 8045, (HLCX) 8085, 8089,8139, 8163, 8176, 8177.

 NREX (SD40-2) 4403, 5542, 5581, 5661, 5777, 5823, 6301, 6309, 7212, 7216, 7223, 7237, 7246, 7275, 7287, 7349, 7356, 7360,  7370, 7374, 7931, 8092, 8096, 8099, 8401,  

NOTE: NREX 7368 is also at Nahant, Iowa for repairs and NREX (SD45T-2) 9402 (Is now off lease).

In April, a few of  the HELM locomotives on lease to CP were sent to Montreal for repairs; St-Luc Diesel Shop (if minor), or to CADRAIL (if somewhat major).  For example HLCX 7230 and HLCX 6340 arrived in early April for repairs at the Lachine facility.

With the substantial number of leased units and with DME/ICE power now seen on CP trains system-wide, more railfans are trackside shooting these colorful consists. Steve Nordahl submitted these three examples of the variety of colors on CP trains he photographed in Bethlehem, PA during the second week of April

Photo #1 was taken April 9th in NS's River Yard in Bethlehem, PA and shows DME #6051 SD40-3 "City of Sturgis", HLCX SD40-2 #6299 (Ex BN), CEFX SD40-2 #3183 (Bluebird), CP SD40-2 #5927.

 Photo #2: A quartet of SD40-2's were shot April 11th at NS's River Yard: CP #5910, bluebirds CEFX #3149 & #3164, and CP #5671.

 Photo #3: CP-38Z/256 arrived at Bethlehem, PA April 11th with CP SD40-2 #5698 - the Vancouver Expo '86 unit, CITX SD40-2 #3036 (ex BNSF), and Dual Flags CPRS SD40-2 #5677 .  Steve Nordahl uses a Nikon D90, 70-200mm f/2.8 Nikkor Lens, ISO 500, f/5.6, 1/1600, -67 ev, @ 200mm.

Tied-Up Unserviceable, CP AC4400CW 8579 was shot at the west end of Alyth Yard by John Peakman April 3rd. This was one of three units wrecked (8874, 8579, 8628) on March 2nd  2010 when a potash train hit a grain train at Anderson Crossing, just west of Golden, B.C.  CP 8579 flipped over onto the conductor's side, and the engineer's side was gouged by the grain cars of the other train.  This locomotive  has been tied up unserviceable ever since. Cor van Steenis submitted his photo of the unit in service at Banff, AB in June 2009.  (More wreck photos appeared in the April 2010 edition of CRO) .

Ed Weisensel shot CP train 273’s SOO SD60 6050, leased HLCX SD40-2 7003 and SOO SD60M 6062 on April 2nd at Muskego Yard in Milwaukee, WI.  Ed also snapped some older SOO and Milwaukee painted freight cars.  

 

 

Apparently CP Gp38-2 4524 was involved in a nasty Easter-egg hunt. Currently bad-ordered, she was shot on the ramp at Muskego yard (Milwaukee, WI)  by Ed Weisensel April 25th.

 

 

Ken Garber snapped CP train 240 with dead-in-tow CEFX 2024 at Windsor, Ontario on March 25th.  CEFX 2024 is designated as a Model GP20D.  Motive Power Industries in Boise, Idaho assembled 40 of these units for General Motors in 2000-2001.  They are rated at 2,000 h.p., are Caterpillar-powered , and have high-mounted cabs for better visibility while switching.  CP tested two of them (2005 and 2006) in the St. Paul, MN area in 2002 but didn't buy any.  They also tested two 1,500 h.p. GP15D's (1506 and 1509) at the same time.   They are the same design but the GP20D's have dynamic braking (hence the dynamic brake blister) while the GP15's don't. (via Bill Sanderson).

 

 

 

As was discussed in the April CRO CP section, CP are now shifting operations from its historic Ogden Shop to the nearby Alyth Shop.  http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/Canadian+Pacific+shifting+operations+from+historic

+Ogden+yards/4672658/story.html

On April 3rd, Cor van Steenis caught CP 8538 West (mixed manifest freight) smoking it up passing a holed eastbound CP intermodal at Banff Station, AB.

 

Cor also submitted this April 1st shot of the CPR Accommodation Car that accompanies Track Evaluation Train (TEC) No. 63.  It may look it but the car has not been repainted.  The exterior was recently buffed with touch up paint applied around the windows and appurtenances, and then relettered by M-o-W staff at Ogden Yard, Calgary, AB.

 

  

CP 5916 and 3074 are pushing TEC #63 (Accommodation Car # 68, Gauge Restraint Measurement Car #424993 and Track Evaluation Car #63) is it backed into Ogden Yard, Calgary, AB., Cor van Steenis shot TEC #63 April 1st. 

In Mid-April, the Royal Canadian Pacific was taking a trial run to Banff and back to Calgary and Greg McKnight took these shots of the train at Banff, AB.  Greg also noted part of an old red frame building still standing after since the 1930’s and originally used for ice storage for passenger-car cooling when they were kept on the many sidings by the station while the passengers were in Town, as well as when they were underway. Later it was used for coal storage and is one of a few old historical structures still around. The current owners of the station are making plans to completely restore the area and possibly having a steam locomotive on display at some point.

CP VIGNETTES:

Warren Calloway submitted his shot of CP Rail SD40-2 6006 with two sisters leading a grain train west of Kamloops, BC in 1993.

During the spring of 1983, BBD demonstrated the first four HR616 locomotives (CN 2100-2103) on CP.  Wearing CN paint with no CN markings, they were renumbered to BBD 7001-7004  and were de-rated to 3200 hp for their demonstration tests on CP.  David Brook shot BBD 7003 with CP M636 4715 and M630 4562 while on trial at Agincourt Yard in Toronto April 1983.  The other shot by John P. Carter  shows BBD 7004  leading CP 482 out of North Bay Ontario in May 1983.

 

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 In late 2002 CP decided to begin powering its “Xpressway” trains with sets of AC4400CW’s.  On December 1, 2002, Bill Sanderson clicked the first AC-powered train #121 is seen departing westward from Smiths Falls, Ont. as it approaches Town Line Road at Mile 1.43 of the Belleville Subdivision.  AC4400CW’s #9534 and #9531 are leading the train of 26 highway trailers.  The experiment didn’t last long, within a few days the “Xpressway” had reverted back to its normal SD40-2 power.  

Bill Sanderson caught the early morning sun is burning the mist off the Columbia River valley rising over CP’s yard in Golden, B.C. on July 27, 1993.  Although the town of Golden is on the CP’s (main-line) Mountain Subdivision, Golden yard itself is located at Mile 143.0 at the north end of the Windermere Subdivision.  The subdivision ends 1.8 miles farther west at the west end of town where it joins the main line at KC Junction.  The Windermere is operated as OCS territory, with the only CTC controlling the switches at KC Junction.  99% of the traffic through the yard is coal – the other 1% is the occasional wayfreight which operates as a turn out of Golden.  The yard also contains maintenance facilities for CP’s fleet of coal hoppers and CP  SW1200RS 8113 was assigned to move the cars around.  CP 8113 also worked out of Vancouver (Drake Street) and Coquitlam Yard for a time. Long after 8113 was retired, in March 2008 it was sold to Larry’s Truck Electric in Ohio, and renumbered LTEX 1210.

© CRO May 2011