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 #250800  by stuart_iowa
 
Ottawa Central took over plant switching in the Smurfit-Stone pulp mill at Portage Du Fort Qubec.
Location to give more of a location, former CN line from Ottawa Ontario to Pembroke, Ontario, along the Beachburg Sub.
History of the mill locomotives
Stone Consolidated Originally Bathurst Power and Paper, then Consolidated Bathurst.
2 Alco 73586 9 1945 S-1 [n] Louisville & Nashville #24;
Consolidated Bathurst #2, 3/1969;
Stone Consolidated #2, Portage du Fort,
Stone Consolidated #3, 1989.
4 EMD 23461 9 1959 SW900 (n) RI #512 (EMD model SW, s/n 664), 3/1938;
(2) RI #911;
http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/stuart ... r=/6b7dre2
Switchers left at track speed over 25 miles a hours to Walkley Yards in Ottawa. I do not know what the next stop for the switchers is going to be.

 #268405  by 2spot
 
Does anyone know where the Smurfit-Stone switch engines ended up?