One EMD locomotive that was canceled shortly after coming to market was the SD28, a light 6-axle unit built by Electro-Motive Diesel in LaGrange, IL between July 1965 and September 1965. Power was provided by an EMD 567D1 16-cylinder  engine which generated 1,800 horsepower (1.34 MW). This locomotive was basically a non-turbocharged version of the successful SD35.  Only 12 of the SD28 model were ever built, six for US railroads (Columbus and Greenville, RR, and Erie Mining RR) , and a further six of a passenger variant, type SDP28, were built for export to Korea in 1966 for the  Korean National Railways.

Illinois Central Gulf acquired the two Columbus and Greenville SD28's and both got repainted in to IC colors.  IC Sd28 9451 was wrecked beyond repair on 9/29/89, and sold to National Railway Equipment 8/17/92.

Remember when Canadian Pacific Railway was testing out the brand new SD70ACe's?  That was over a decade ago! My how time flies.  (Mark Forseille Port Coquitlam, BC Canada).

GMDX SD70ACe #70 was shot at the CP diesel facility in Coquitlam, BC back in 2005.

 

As she looked when in first in service on the Norfolk Southern. (Photo by Paul Huemmer). 

One Notable New Arrival in March:

 CSXT F40PH-2 9993 (Former AMTK F40PHR 395) has arrived at CADRAIL  for an unknown scope of work.  It came up on CSX Q263 on March 5th, arrived in Buffalo, NY and was sent to Toronto on CP 247 March 6th.   It arrived at Cadrail in Montreal, a few days later.   While it was still in transit on CSX in the USA, Josh Martin snapped CSXT 9993 going westbound heading to Buffalo on Q263 March 3rd, 2016.

 CSXT F40-PHR, (is not an F40PH-2), and is from Amtrak EMD Order #847048: Date 08.85 Model F40PHR (AMTK 391-400 series).   It was later rebuilt using components from an SDP40-PH onto a new 4 axle F40 frame.  Several  F40's were rebuilt from retired SDP40 6 axle units. This great shot is by Kevin Wood.

Adam Finger was able to catch two together two years ago.

 

NEW ARRIVALS in MARCH (UPDATED March 27th, 2016)

CP 8711

CP 8729

CP 8630 (fire damage)

CP 9515

CP 9523

CP 9574

CP 9766

CSXT 9993

The LTEX (Larry's Truck & Electric) units will be rebuilt as follows:

 

GP39-3M conversion:

LTEX 3903 (ex 2536) - Completed in March

LTEX 3904 (ex 2563)

LTEX 3905 (ex 2566)

LTEX 3906 (ex 2578) - Completed in March

 

GP38-3M conversion:

LTEX 3815 (ex 2588) - Completed in February LTEX 3815 was previously sent to RSI in Minneapolis, but was returned to CAD.  

 

Out of service for over 2 years, VIA P42DC 901 was at Cadrail for complete repaint, however the internal repair work will be completed by VIA at their Montreal Maintenance Center.   You may recall, on March 2nd,2014 VIA P42 #901 was trailing (on the rear end) on Ottawa-bound VIA 57 (which in the new numbering is a Mtl-Ott-Tor run, as opposed to the Mtl-Tor milk run via Cornwall). That locomotive caught fire in the afternoon near Alexandria, causing substantial delays to that train and others between Ottawa and Montreal. Mike Thompson was in the right place at the right time, and captured these dramatic photos of 901 on fire.

INSIDE THE SHOP: (UPDATED March 27th, 2016)

 

AMT 1324 - Repairs arrived in February

CADRAIL 2001 - Yard collision repairs

CP 8504 - For repairs

CP 8520 - For repairs

CP 8630 - Engine change out

CP 8640 -Wreck repairs

CP 8863 - Wreck Repairs

CP 8731 - For Unknown

CP 9554 - For Unknown

CP 9566 - For Unknown

CP 9643 - Wreck repairs

CEFX 2032 - Is expected to be released for lease this month.

GMTX 312 - (ex-CP 1428) in blue paint is soon to be released.

GMTX 331 - (ex-SOO 1553) in blue paint is soon to be released

LTEX 3812 - For overhaul (ex-Ann Arbor) in overhaul process

LTEX 3903 - Completed and repainted (ex-LTEX-2536) but not released yet.

LTEX 3906 - Completed and repainted (ex-LTEX-2536) but not released yet.

LTEX 3815 - (ex-LTEX 2588) previously sent to RSI in Minneapolis, but was  returned to CAD.  

RPRX RP20BD 5401 - In long-term storage outside.

 LTEX F40PH-2 270 remains stored on Cadrail property.  Purchased by Larry's Truck Electric at the Montreal Maine and Atlantic Locomotive auction two years ago and has been re-lettered LTEX 270.   It had been lettered SLC 270 and was leased to AMT for Montreal Commuter service several year's ago.  It still wears the (former AMTRAK) Two Tone blue AMT patch paint scheme and Richard Marchi shot her stored on the MM&A at Ste-Rosilie back in 2013. 

RELEASED in MARCH

 

CP 9503 -Released and stored in St-Luc Yard.

CP 9522 - Released and stored on CP

CP 9538 -Released and stored in St-Luc Yard.

CP 9538 -Released and stored in St-Luc Yard.

CP 9538 -Released and stored in St-Luc Yard

CP 9524 -Released and to be stored on CP

CP 9643 -Released after repairs

CP 8711 - Released after repairs

CP 8738- Released after repairs

QGRY 3014 - Released after Nose and Cab repairs to CP for QGRY.

 RELEASED in FEBRUARY

AMT 1323 - F59PHI 1323 Repaired and released in late-February

CP 8705 - Trucks change-out completed

CP 8743 - Released

CADRAIL continues to do truck swap outs of designated locomotives from the  Canadian Pacific Railway GE-fleet.  Our visits to see the released units at St-Luc Diesel Shop show that they have had Hi-Ad trucks switched to the Steerable trucks, or  vice-versa.

CADRAIL (and NRE-Silvis, IL) continue to install Cattron remote control equipment into GP38AC and GP38-2 locomotives for the Canadian Pacific Railway's RCL Program.  Those seen completed at St-Luc Diesel wear new paint and have all new antennas and strobe lights, and visible Remote Control modifications.

CADRAIL 2001, which is former CP 8024 (an MLW-built RS-23) was damaged in January 2015.  Luc Lantier took these shots two months ago showing the damage to CADRAIL RS23 #2001.   (Luc Lanthier).

 

 

 

LTEX GP38-3M 3815 (renumbered from LTEX GP35m 2588) returned, and is still on Cadrail property for testing. The other unit, LTEX 3903 is also still here.  The completed LTEX pair were shot in March 3rd, with stored LTEX owned  F40PH-2  270 in the background. 

GO/AMT COMMUTER CARS:

 GO TRANSIT / METROLINX commuter cars at CAD for overhaul and conversion to Bi-Level V standards. The list shows the commuter cars on the property undergoing the overhaul process, and those already released:

GO IN THE SHOP:

 GO 2047 (Arrived in March) GO  2018 (arrived in February), GO 2002, 2033 (Arrived in December), joining GO 2035, 2036, 2037, 2048, 2051, 2061, and 2078 already there.. 

GO RELEASED:    

 Departing Cadrail February 23rd 2016 was GO 2035, the first Bi-Level 1 upgrade of this series to be completed at CAD three years ago, and had been used as their prototype example. It is now back in Toronto commuter service after three years inside CADRAIL in Montreal! 

 GO 2415, 2416, 2418, 2433, 2430, 2434, 2435, 2436, 2442, 2447, 2450, 2451, 2452, 2453, and 2455, all in 2016, except *2499 was released in December 2015.

AMT AT THE SHOP:

 

 AMT 2032 arrived in March.

AMT 2018, 2020 and 2036 (in Progress)

 CADRAIL has been contracted by the Agence Metropolitaine de Transport for modernization and door refurbishment on a number of  AMT 2000-series Montreal commuter coaches.

AMT RELEASED:

 

AMT F59PHI 1323 Repaired and released in Late February

AMT 2035 released in Late February

 

VIA RAIL LRC at CADRAIL for REFURBISHMENT

LRC NEW ARRIVALS:  

 

VIA LRC 3473

VIA LRC 3466

LRC CURRENTLY INSIDE:

VIA 3307, 3311, 3323, 3458, and 3459.

(LRC) COMPLETED/RELEASED:

 

VIA 3309 and 3467 (Released in March)

VIA 3311, 3463 (Released in February)

VIA 3312, 3324, 3467, (Released in January)

VIA 3354, 3469-3476 (Previously Released)  

 Ron Visockis shot RPDX 6133 on the tail end of CN#305 at Belleville ON Mar 2nd, 2016. Jason Shron (of RAPIDO MODEL TRAINS) raiseed funds to move 6133 to Ontario.  Now the restoration cost will be evaluated and  commence.. She was built in the summer of 1956 for CP Subsidiary The Dominion and Atlantic Railroad, but ironically spent the last years in service at the other end of the country on Vancouver Island in VIA service! 

 Industrial Rail Services demonstrator rail diesel car No. 6202 rests with an RDC owned by Farmrail at the Industrial Rail shops on Jan. 18, 2016. The IRSI prototype, 6202 is safe for now) and is for sale. Farmrail 6130 (with brown and orange end stripes) is also safe, along with Farmrail 6118. 

The other RDC's once owned by Industrial Rail are earmarked for  scrapping, with many of the Budd cars to be cut in half, and then trucked to the scrappers yard (Neighbourhood Recycling), in Moncton, NB. Matt Keoughan took these shots at IRSI a month ago. 

Matt Keoughan reported some good news however, as six or seven of the IRSI RDC's that were to be scrapped, will now be spared.   Also Jason Shron (of RAPIDO MODEL TRAINS) raised funds to move 6133 to Ontario. He is estimating it may cost $20,000.

 

Here is the IRSI roster as of February 14th, 2016:

 

BC-12 - cut in half

BC-16 - scrapped

6107

6114

6119

6122- scrapped

6136

6137 - being dismantled

6143

6200

6204

6206 - scrapped

6207 - scrapped

6212

6213 - scrapped

6216 - being dismantled

6220

6221 - scrapped

6222 - scrapped

6223 - scrapped

6224 - being dismantled

 

  

 

  

 

  

At press time, two of the Budd cars were being cut in half, and then trucked to the scrappers yard (Neighbourhood Recycling) OF  Moncton, NB. The Canadian scrap dealer will cut up  a dozen stainless steel Rail Diesel Cars. Industrial Rail Services, Inc, previously owned the cars.

  

 

On the property in March 2016:

CN 7265
CN 7264
CN 223
CN 222
CN 242
Esso 7920 (Engine repair and broken crank)
IC flat car w/ 2 EMD prime movers
LDS 7316
LDS 269
NCLX 902
SSRX 911

VIP RAIL Railcar Storage & Industrial switching facility in Sarnia, ON http://www.viprail.com

VIP currently stores up to 700 rail cars for industrial customers. They offer daily security checks and complete perimeter fencing make this 50 acre industrial site the perfect location to store your railcars in a safe, secure setting. VIP owns and maintains three SW1200 locomotives to service the facility, which can be serviced at the LDS Locomotive shop in Sarnia if needed. They provide the following services: Storage of railcars; full or empty, Storage of Hazmat and Dangerous Goods cars, Car by number delivery to nearby industrial sites, loading racks or to CN Interchange. VIP is fully licensed and insured with $5,000,000 Bodily Injury & Property Damage and $5,000,000 Sudden & Accidental Pollution coverage.

Dockside Industrial Park Inc in Sarnia, ON.

Dockside Industrial Park Inc. is a rail/truck terminal for the petro-chemical industry. They lease an LDSX switcher and is owned( or partially owned) by a partial owner of VIP Sarnia with direct access to CN and CSX in Michigan. They are located on the south end of Sarnia's Chemical Valley in Corunna, Ontario (on the border of Michigan). The former Ethyl Canada site is built on 112 acres of heavy industrial land and is fully serviced and ready for development. Pipe racks are in place across much of the property. There are 18 pipelines related to the neighbouring petro-chemical industry that pass directly by the east side of the site.

Electricity is available between 3 phase 600 and 27,000 volt. Steam and natural gas and nitrogen are also available for hook up. Read More Here: http://www.docksideind.com/

Vidal Street Industrial Park:

"McEachran is one of the owners of the Vidal Street Industrial Park on Kenny Street in Chemical Valley. It also began as a brownfield industrial site that has been redeveloped".

Read more here: http://www.theobserver.ca/2013/10/31/new-owners-planning-business-park-at-corunna-site

 (Edited by Jody Moore)

Genset CSX 1324 arrived at NRE Dixmoor, IL  for work in March 2016. Locomotive NRE genset model 3GS21B is powered by three Cummins QSK19C I6 engines measuring 700 HP each and is the most successful NRE model.

Norfolk Southern GP33ECO NS 4714 - the last of 15 assigned to the Chicago area - and RP-M4C slug NS 646 (the second of three expected for Chicago) at NS's Calumet yard on the south side of Chicago. Photo taken from a roadway overpass in early March.

Norfolk Southern GP33ECO 4711 working the Continental Paper recycling plant inside Amtrak's 18th Street engine facility as Amtrak GE's look on.  The GP33ECOs are regulars lately on this job; two days later, NS 4709 was performing the same duties. 

A Green Vignette:

The very first Railpower-built "Green Goat" (RPRX 2001) being tested at Canadian Pacific Railway's Alyth Yard in Calgary, Alberta back on April 1, 2004.

 

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