CMQ Motive power

I think I have a list of the present lease units CMQ is using right now. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
19 total units (if my count is right).

GP38-3 / GP38M-3 (EMD)

4x CEFX 419, 420, 3803, 6537
2x LTEX 3812, 3815

GP35U (EMD)

13x LTEX 2516, 2522, 2525, 2535, 2540, 2542, 2550, 2556, 2558, 2561, 2573, 2574, 3280



Credit to http://www.thedieselshop.us/CMQ.HTML" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; , jjoyce1, ksmitty and CN9634 for the information.

I believe the PRLX tunnel motors 2856 and 2858 are still around.

fogg1703 wrote:I believe the PRLX tunnel motors 2856 and 2858 are still around.

Supposedly off lease 10/31/2016. Haven't left property yet, but have been OOS since 10/31.

I forgot to add this the other day. There are four units that I could not find any information if they were still lease to CMQ. I do not think they are(think this is why the purchused 3057). Feel free to let me know if you do.

4x SD40-2 (GMD) CITX 3053, 3071, 3082, 3091

A quick look through the headboard of the CM&Q site would suggest at least 3071 and 3082 were leased at some point early on. They are no longer in service, and havent been since the very beginning. They may still be at Derby, there were quite a few units off lease stored there.

Also note, there were 3 tunnel motors, not two, and an LTEX SD40-2 all of union Pacific heritage and all in yellow, leased. LTEX 3280 sounds right. Don't remember the third PRLX T-2 number.

Will be interested to see if Bowser offers their SD40-2F in CMQ or B&A paint schemes in 2017…

http://www.bowser-trains.com/new/GMD%20SD40-2F.html

Dcl1332 wrote:I think I have a list of the present lease units CMQ is using right now. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
19 total units (if my count is right).

GP38-3 / GP38M-3 (EMD)

4x CEFX 419, 420, 3803, 6537
2x LTEX 3812, 3815

GP35U (EMD)

13x LTEX 2516, 2522, 2525, 2535, 2540, 2542, 2550, 2556, 2558, 2561, 2573, 2574, 3280





Credit to http://www.thedieselshop.us/CMQ.HTML" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; , jjoyce1, ksmitty and CN9634 for the information.

I just realized I put 3280 under GP35U it is a SD40-2 and is eather inactive or gone. So there are 12 LTEX GP35u

Photo by Frank Jolin:

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Dcl1332 wrote:I forgot to add this the other day. There are four units that I could not find any information if they were still lease to CMQ. I do not think they are(think this is why the purchused 3057). Feel free to let me know if you do.

4x SD40-2 (GMD) CITX 3053, 3071, 3082, 3091

KSmitty wrote:A quick look through the headboard of the CM&Q site would suggest at least 3071 and 3082 were leased at some point early on. They are no longer in service, and havent been since the very beginning. They may still be at Derby, there were quite a few units off lease stored there.

Well it looks like CITX 3071 is back on lease or heading out. It was back on job 1 and looked to be under power. Gess we will see in the coming weeks if it starts working jobs 1 and 2 all the time again like it did in the beginning or if the other three SD40-2 from CITX are still around.

3071 was indeed running yesterday. There was supposed to be a second SD40-2 from that CITX group, but it was swapped out in favor of two SD40-2Fs instead. The others are stored at Derby.

Was reading on Facebook that CMQ is little under powered right now. At least two if not all four CITX units may be back on lease soon. I got to give CMQ credit right now even with Pan Am interchanging with the NBS again it dose not seem that they are losing a lot of traffic because of it.(feel free to correct me if I am wrong).

Where, and what, is the traffic that is causing them to need more locomotives?

Dcl1332 wrote:Was reading on Facebook that CMQ is little under powered right now. At least two if not all four CITX units may be back on lease soon. I got to give CMQ credit right now even with Pan Am interchanging with the NBS again it dose not seem that they are losing a lot of traffic because of it.(feel free to correct me if I am wrong).

MEC407 wrote:Where, and what, is the traffic that is causing them to need more locomotives?

I gess the power shortage is on job 1 & 2. I do not know for sue. Form what I understand job 1 yesterday had over 80 cars and had 9011, 9010, 3071, and 2540 ( 2 sd40-2f, 1 sd40-2, & gp35) for power.

I also do not know if there are some locamotive down right now. The only two or three I know that are down are 502( inactive sence MMA purchased Iron works), 2001 with electrical (Rockville branch), and 9022 which has not been out a lot at all (I was informed that it's had some little issue that keep popping up). I do not see a lot of information on the lease units so some of them may be down.

Dcl1332 wrote:Was reading on Facebook that CMQ is little under powered right now. At least two if not all four CITX units may be back on lease soon. I got to give CMQ credit right now even with Pan Am interchanging with the NBS again it dose not seem that they are losing a lot of traffic because of it.(feel free to correct me if I am wrong).

Contracts and guaranteed rates, plus the whole "if it works why change it" mentality will hold true for a while. The Pan Am marketing department will have to really hit the ground in northern parts to rustle all the traffic back from CM&Q. It's not going to be an overnight change but a customer here-customer there sorta change, if they can succeed in stealing any of that traffic back. In fact I don't think anything has really tipped back to the southern routing as yet. But ST is providing service, so if their rates are competitive, which they should be, they have a chance at regaining some of the losses.

At least some of the traffic Pan Am is running through Keag never went over CMQ to begin with. A lot of it went via NBSR-CN instead of NBSR-ST-CSX. That traffic is some of the traffic that Pan Am is trying to recapture, not necessarily trying to take traffic away from CMQ (although obviously if they can, they will, and vice-versa).