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If you hog for CP, you'll likely be less than thrilled to know that some of the 9100 series SD90MAC's are being placed back in service to deal with a power shortage that has also lead to the resurrection of most of the former SOO SD60's. As I write this, word is that CP 9108, 9134, 9142 and 9157 are...

They're all (or mostly) being returned to service as CP has been caught power short. This includes both the rebuilt CP 62** series and the unrebuilt SOO 60** series. All four unrebuilt units that were languishing in the deadline at Agincourt (Toronto Yard), well the deadline on the Havelock Sub main...

I wouldn't think so. The OVR (what I'll use to refer to the CP Ottawa valley line) is/was in awful shape, is slow, and needs a cash infusion to operate something as potentially dangerous as solid trains of crude. The bean counters ran the numbers and it would seem obvious that going via Toronto is t...

I shot it a few weeks ago (Mar12, 2011) leading on the Kingston Sub around Port Hope and Newcastle (pictured) on 1st X371. Met a stopped 350 with D6's and 350's crew joked that the IC 1007 was the pride of the fleet... the reply to which was something about being a piece of crap.

At least all CN got was a fine. Prairie farmers are imprisoned for selling their grain outside of the Wheat Board's monopoly.

That fine is a drop in the bucket for CN, and if they really wanted too, they could just park all the hoppers once they reach the cap, but don't.

That tax sounds so stupid, it must have been invented in Ontario. Government is only too good at redistributing wealth... to themselves and for their benefit.

The SD75I's were all delivered without snow sheilds, and they still don't have any. However, they did install snow shields on at least one SD75I as a test shortly after delivery (they were similar to the ones on the GP40-2L's and SD40-2W's). They were removed and I only ever saw one so unit equipped...

As for the NBEC, perhaps CN wants it's second mainline through New Brunswick back in the fold. If they need to perform track work on the Edmunston-Moncton mainline, the NBEC will undoubtfuly be very uselful. For the one or two trains a day they operate? Highly doubtful. They run something like 16 t...

Yes, the SD70M-2's were nice to see when first delivered... but what units aren't? I have several nice shots of them, but found they got dirty really quick, and seem to look worse than most when dirty. I hope to get shots of the new order when they start showing up. FWIW, thi is old news. I knew abo...

I read in the Canadian Railway Observation news letter (http://www.canadianrailwayobservations.com/) that CN has 25 more SD70M-2's on order. Included in a few variations from the last order, CN 8850-8874 will be equipped with isolated cabs. A small order, but given the financial situation in North A...

That line by the 1980's would have likely had 2 or 3 freight trains a day per direction. Likely a priority out of Montreal to/from Winnipeg/Edmonton and one or two freights to/from Winnipeg. I think passenger service would have been dropped by the mid-eighties. In the end, CN was running one or two ...

In a word, no. It costs money to change a name of a Coproration. Which is why they are stressing that everyone call them CN, not Canadian National, all the while not making anything official... why spend the money? It doesn't bring in any returns. I costs big bucks to re-brand, and CN has been in us...

Test was ended by CP a week early. That usually doesn't mean it went well.

CP finds a model and sticks with it. First it was the SD40-2, now it's the AC4400/ES44AC.

Figures the glass doesn't match. The "droop" must be to improve visibility of the hogger to see a crewmember riding on the front steps. IIRC, that was what EMD said when they introduced it on the SD60M... a feature that had been on CN's wide nosed locomotives since introduced on the M420W'...

gprimr1 wrote:I didn't know they were staffed from open to close.