EMDX EMD SD70ACe T4 1502 was photographed at the TTCI (Transportation Technology Center, Inc). The locomotive had gone through emissions and other testing.  EMDX 1502 and 1503 have been out there since November 2015. (Photo by Reddit).

On December 12th, 2005 Walter Pfefferle snapped brand new Norfolk Southern 2684 and 2682 with new CN SD70M-2's outside the London plant.

On June 21st, 2013, Walter caught UP 8774 in London.

Brand new EMDX 4 being moved outside the plant on March 23rd, 2012.

UP 8770 being moved at the plant in April 2012.

UP 8768 and sibling on the GMD test track in London Ontario on April 20th, 2012.

Shortline Goderich - Exeter lifting brand new GMD-built Export locomotives on 11/25/07.

 

The new arrivals in February were mostly Passenger cars from GO (Metrolinx), and VIA RAIL.  One of the CADRAIL shop switchers (ex-CP) RS23 2001 is now out of service after a minor yard incident.  Several Canadian Pacific locomotives are on the property, and Cadrail  continues  work on GP35u's  and GP38-3M's  for Larry's Truck Electric, GMTX switchers, and QGRY 3o14 for wreck repairs.   

 INSIDE THE SHOP:

 

AMT 1324 - Repairs arrived in February

CADRAIL 2001 - Yard collision repairs

CP 8504 - For repairs

CP 8520 - For repairs

CP 8640 -Wreck repairs

CP 8863 - Wreck Repairs

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 almost ready to be released.

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

LTEX 3815 - (ex-LTEX 2588) previously sent to RSI in Minneapolis, has now been returned to CAD.  

LTEX 2578 - For overhaul ex-BNSF in overhaul process

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

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

QGRY 3014 - For wreck repairs to the nose and cab

RPRX RP20BD 5401 - In long-term storage outside.

SLC 270 - Still stored on the property.

 

 RELEASED in FEBRUARY

 

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

CP 9524 - released in Late February and now stored on CP

CP 8705 - Trucks change-out completed

CP 8743 - Released

 

 RELEASED in JANUARY

 

AMT 1330 - Repairs

CP 2258 - PTC MODS

CP 8504 - Repairs

CP 8520 - Repairs  

CP 8726 - Repairs   

CP 9560 -Repairs

CP 9553 - Repairs and now Stored on CP.

CP 9529 - Repairs and now Stored on CP

CP 9559 - Repairs and now Stored on CP

CP 8553 - Repairs 

CP 9516 - Repairs

CP 9620 - Repairs

CADRAIL  2001, an MLW-built RS-23 which is former CP 8024 is out of service. However CAD's primary switcher is their ex-CP RS18u.   CADRAIL 2001 was shot still working days before the collision  in January  next to AMT 1330 which was released in January following repairs, and  paint touch up.

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 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 on February 23rd was GO 2035.  She was the first Bi-Level 1 upgrade of this series to be completed at CAD a few years ago, and had been used as their prototype example. It was in transit back to GO at press time

 GO 2415, 2416, 2418, 2433, 2430, 2434, 2435, 2436, 2442, 2447, 2450, 2451, 2452, 2453, and 2455.

 

 AMT IN THE SHOP:

 

AMT F59PHI  1323 arrived in late February.

AMT 2018, 2020 and 2036.

AMT Coach 2018 was the newest arrival at Cadrail in late February.

 

 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 cars at CADRAIL for Refurbishment

 NEW ARRIVALS:

 VIA LRC 3458 (Arrived in February)

 (LRC) CURRENTLY INSIDE:

 VIA 3307, 3309, 3311, 3323, 3459.

 (LRC) COMPLETED/RELEASED:

 VIA 3311, 3463 (Released in February)

VIA 3312, 3324, 3467, 3469, and 3476 (Released in January)

VIA 3354, 3469-3476 (Previously Released)

 Between 2007 and 2010 Smiths Falls, ON was an interesting place to observe Genset's and Green Goats passing through on Canadian Pacific.  These locomotives were built at Railpower in a section of the CADRAIL faculty that they leased.  Bob Heathorn provided us with his great shots her shot at at the CP crew Change point at Smith's Falls Station between 2007 and 2010. 

  

  

This fifth shot shows one of two National Railway Equipment  (NRE)  3GS21B gensets that were built at VMV in Paducah, KY in 2008.  The pair CP 2100 and 2011 tested on CP during in Ontario from 2008-2013 through Government funding by Canada EcoFreight.  They were both returned to the lessor BREX in 2013

At the Ontario Northland Railway North Bay shop on February 16th, 2016  Patrick McKie shot  ONR 1733 rolls onto the turn table  and waits to be connected to the spreader as CN 451 sits in the back ground. ONR GP9 1605 uncouples from ONT spreader 529, as the MOW crews prep for their departure.

  

NREX 2690, 2734, 2735, 2754 and 2755, all ex-UP SD40M-2's, remain on the property.   NREX 3GS21B 2020, NREX (ex-CP) SD40-2) 5644, and NREX (ex-CP) SD40-2 5655, are also at the facility.  Stored NRE owned units on the property include: NREX GP9 208, RS3 307, GMD1m 1141, 1149, GP9 1602, 1684, GMD1 1911, SD40-2 5567, 5619, 5620, 5644, 5665, and 5771. Most have cannibalized.

 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. 

Most of 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) is trying to raise funds to move 6133 to Ontario. He is estimating it may cost $20,000. She was built in the summer of 1956 for CP Subsidiary The Dominion Atlantic Railroad, but ironically spent the last years in service at the other end of the country on Vancouver Island in VIA service! 

 

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.

  

The first of the new STM Montreal Metro MPM 10 sets began operation on February 7th, 2016. The MPM-10 (Montreal Pneumatic Material 2010), also known as the Azur, is currently under production by Bombardier Transportation for the Montreal Metro. A test train was delivered in 2014 and they were originally expected to fully replace the aging MR-63 trains by 2018. The first MPM-10 train entered into service on Line 2 (Orange Line) on February 7, 2016.  Nicholas Houde clicked the first train set arriving at Plamondon Station on the Orange Line at Noon time.  

The MR series...

On a bitterly cold February 9th 2016, Mike Robin caught one of the brand new BBD-built TTC subway cars at Cochrane, ON in transit by flat bed to Toronto from the plant in Thunder Bay, ON. 

 Spotted outside LDS shops in February 2016:

 ESSO SW900 7920

CN Slug 242
CN GP9RM 7039
CN GP38-2W 4713
CN GP38-2 7501
CN GP38-2 7270
LDSX S-3 Slug 269 (ex-CN)
LDSX GP39-2 7316 (ex-CN) for parts
NCLX SW1000 40

SSRX SW900 911

SSRX 911 (an EMD SW900 switcher used by GE in Chemical Valley, is being further repaired due to an onsite incident.  It was rolled away and sideswiped by the yard job after being spotted at LDS on their shop lead in February. 

 ESSO SW900 7920 was at the shop for repairs (On April 28th, 2012 Jay Butler snapped SW900 7920 through a chain link fence working the Esso Chemical plant in Sarnia, ON. This is former CANAC nee-CN 7920 that was repainted in the late 1980's in Pointe St-Charles shop in Montreal.

NCLX SW1000 has been in and out of LDS for many years. This shot of her and NCLX MP1500D 2003 at LDS by Jon Hall was taken back in 2013.

 (Edited by Jody Moore)

 UPY 902 is one of four Railpower RP18BD genesis in service out of Yard Center near Dolton, IL (south of Chicago.) Union Pacific is getting 14 of the gensets built on brand-new frames. All are reported to be assigned to Yard Center. (Jody Moore).

Cedar Rapids and Iowa City has several new locomotive and slug sets, built by Relco in Albia, IA. Three of the mothers and four slugs were lined up outside the CR&IC engine facility in Cedar Rapids, IA on April 22, including slug CIC 304 and Relco 1500XD mother CIC 204. Going back from the pair, the new units are CIC 302, 202, 205, 305 and 301 (mother 201 wasn't seen.) The 1500XD units are powered by EMD 12-645E engines, presumably with Tier 0+ upgrade packages, and are built on GP9 frames.

A quartet of CSX 3GS21B gensets has accumulated at NRE's Dixmoor, IL facility for work. From right to left, CSXT 1303, 1301 and 1300 from Dearborn, MI, along with Newark, NJ-assigned CSXT 1322 are lined up outside the plant.

A little more info on Brookville's model BL05 diesel-hydraulic switcher for the US Navy in Bremerton, WA, and a photo. The little unit is powered by a Cummins Tier 3 engine, coupled to a 4 speed transmission and hydro drive.

 

 

 

 

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