August 2011
On July
4th, Michael Harding photographed CP 241 at the Thames River bridge
Woodstock, Ontario. CP ES44AC 8726 leads CP 9638, CP 5987, CP 5984
and CP 5764, with Pittock Lake in the background.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=368362&nseq=98
Bryant Brooten
captured this terrific multi-coloured EMD lash-up the second week of
July. SOO SD60 6057, CP SD40-2 6055, SOO SD60 6027, and SD40-2`s DME
6083, CP 5690, and CITX 3054 lead an eastbound CP freight at Belgrade,
MN. Bryant added this is one of the few shots he has taken from the
north side of the overpass, as it can only be accomplished on long
summer mornings, He even got to work the water tower into his shot!
Motive Power
News :
On July 23rd and 24th,
ExpoRail (CRHA) had a special display that included CP AC4400CW 9733
that was repainted at the Montreal St-Luc Diesel Shop. This was the
third unit damaged in a crossing accident with an Oil Tanker in
Alberta with two SD40-2F’s. The unit was repaired in Winnipeg and
repainted in Montreal. Mike Berry photographed the engine at the
museum in St-Constant, QC July 24th.
Last month, CP contracted Progress Rail in Mayfield, Kentucky to
overhaul, rebuild, and repaint of several of their GP38-2
locomotives. CP 3038, 3048, 3066, 3111, and SOO 4446 have been moved
dead in tow over CN and PAL (Paducah and Louisville) to destination in
Mayfield, KY. SOO GP38-2 4515 currently Bad Order in St. Paul, MN,
will also be forwarded to Progress Rail when cleared to move.
CP
leased locomotives on the property in July:
CEFX (AC4400CW) 1002, 1006, 1007,
1014, 1018-1020, 1023, 1024, 1026-1059.
CEFX (SD40-2) 2786, 2791, 2797,
2802, 2803, 3109, 3112, 3117, 3120, 3121, 3127, 3128, 3130, 3133,
3137, 3139, 3143, 3145, 3148, 3149, 3151, 3155, 3163, 3164, 3166,
3168, 3172, 3173, 3175, 3176, 3181, 3182, 3183, 3184, and 3188.
CITX (SD40-2) 2783, 2785, 2790,
2792, 2794, 2796, 2799, 2804, 3008, 3024, 3026, 3032, 3035, 3036,
3053-3067, 3070-3075, 3077-3083, 3086, 3088-3092, 3095, 3097-3102,
3110, 3157, 3170, 3177.
NREX (SD40-2) 4403, 5542, 5581,
5661, 5777, 5823, 6301, 6309, 7003, 7212, 7223, 7237, 7246, 7275,
7287, 7349, 7356, 7360, 7370, 7374, 7931, 8092, 8096, 8099, 8401.
HLCX (SD40-2): 6206, 6299, 6340,
6341, 6844, 7003, 7008, 7009, 7161, 7191, 7193, 7205, 7230, 7231,
7233, 8033, 8085, 8089, 8139, 8163, 8176, and JFDX 8045.
On July 7th, Jack Kuiphoff caught
ICE SD40-2 6211 with color matched trailing power on ethanol train
K674-K675 on the CSX at Gratztown, PA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1AytbaWwgY
Ron Visockis clicked CP 5917 leading
a pair of assorted SD40-2’s westbound on an empty ethanol train
through Trenton, ON July 1st.
Bill
Sanderson
caught (Saratoga & North Creek Railway)
SLRG
BL-2
52 in
transit at Smiths Falls, Ontario on CP train 234, July 14th. The
BL-2 is former BAR 52 and was painted in late-June at Metro East
Industries in East Saint Louis, Illinois. The handsome livery
appears to be inspired by the
1940’s-era EMD demonstrator scheme, and the paint colors
intentionally match D&H
blue and grey
Walter caught CP
241 with SOO SD60M 6059 leading HLCX SD40-2 8085 through Woodstock ON
July 20th.
In
October 2008, CP acquired 55 SD40-2's (1 wrecked - stored
unserviceable) when they bought the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern. Although
it's likely that others have appeared at Alyth Diesel Shop in Calgary
since then, IC&E SD40-2 6421, 'City of Emmetsburg', is the first one
that Cor van Steenis had seen there. It was built at EMD Lagrange in
1980 as UP 3722; acquired by IC&E in 2003; and was entered into the CP
Roster in 2008.
After sitting at Assiniboia, SK for
three weeks and through three severe rain storms waiting on CP's
Expanse Sub to be fully reopened, Prairie Mines and Royalty Ltd PRMX
SD40-2 6973 was on the move in July. July 6th Cor van Steenis
clicked PRMX 6973 at Alyth Yard while in transit on CP from Poplar
River, SK., and destined to Progress Rail in Tacoma, WA, for repairs
and rebuilding. It is one of two locomotives that haul coal from
Sherrit's mine at Poplar River, near Coronach, deep in southern
Saskatchewan, the 12 miles to SaskPower's power plant, which produces
one-third of the electricity in Saskatchewan.
On
July 4th, Marc Forseille caught a rare bird in Coquitlam, BC in a CPRS
SD40-2 that had been D&H (Saratoga, NY) assigned and modified for its
unique New York City run. Several years ago, CPRS 5677 had its front
plow and pilot tweaked to clear the 3rd rail in electrified
territory the CSX line navigates over. Mark also noted, there are
very few CP SD40-2's remaining on the roster in the 5500 or 5600 class
series. Bruce Chapman tallied all of the 5500-5600’s that are left: STLH 5560, STLH 5593; STLH 5615, STLH 5651, CP 5583, 5612, 5648, 5687
in service, plus some D&H NYC units in service at Saratoga: 5671,
5672, 5677, 5690, 5698 with tied-up 5697; and the tied-up Canadian
ones are 5573 and 5691.
In 1980, CP began a
10-year remanufacturing program on their GP9`s. One of the
modifications was to reconfigure the rear of the long hood to form a
larger sanding reservoir. This major modification for extra
sand-carrying capacity was soon deemed not cost effective and
cancelled for the remainder of the GP9u rebuilds. In all, only nine
GP9u’s received the modification: 1512-1515, 1691 and 8200-8203. CP
1512 was the very first unit to come out of the re-manufacturing
program and sported a full conversion from deck to the top of its
hood, with a centred (single) rear number board installed. The other
eight were given a scaled-back version which extended from the deck to
just below the rear number boards, thus leaving the original GP9
number boards in place. (Bill Sanderson)
The CPR
Royal Pacific Express
History:
On June 28th 1886, the first CPR 'Pacific Express' departed downtown
Montreal from Dalhousie Square Station destined for the Pacific coast,
and the first transcontinental passenger train across Canada. It
arrived in the Town of Calgary on Dominion Day with much fanfare and
under a fireworks display. One has to imagine that an event like this
would have drawn many of the town's population of 1000 or so to the
CPR station. The train continued on to Port Moody, B.C., then the end
of track, arriving there 5 days and 19 hours after leaving Montreal,
on 04 July 1886, behind CPR 4-4-0 # 371, which had hauled the 6 car
train on the last leg of its journey from North Bend, B.C.
125
Years Later: CPR
operates a passenger special, Train No. 31B-02, named the 'Royal
Pacific Express', to mark the 125th anniversary of that first
transcontinental train. The train departed Calgary on 02 July 2nd,
2011 just after 09:00h westbound with 4 tuscan and gray diesels and 18
cars, Business Car 'Mount Stephen' bringing up the markers. The train
was a private charter that is scheduled to arrive on the Pacific coast
(Port Coquitlam) on July 4th. It stopped in Banff for 3 hours and
also in Lake Louise for about a half hour before heading on to Golden
for the first night's layover. The consist on this run was: CP 4107,
4106, 3084, 1900, Generator 96, H.B. Bowen, Coach 103, Baggage 99
(Archives Display), Coach 104, Dominion, Ernest 'Smoky' Smith, Baggage
100 (Observation), Mount Royal, Generator 95, Killarney, N.R. Crump,
Banffshire, Strathcona, Van Horne, Royal Wentworth, Craigellachie and
Mount Stephen. Cor van Steenis photographed the train at several
locations and made for a special Canada Day weekend!
With the 'Royal Pacific Express' run
from Calgary to the Pacific coast marking the 125th anniversary of the
first transcontinental passenger train, Cor had the opportunity to
photograph the heritage liveried motive power at Banff, AB. He also
spoke with one of the CPR crew. Cor inquired why the CP FP9A units
#4106 and 4107 were not idling when stopped at Banff; and shut down.
The crew indicated that these units had 'SmartStart' technology
installed, a microprocessor which allows the locomotives to shut down
and start up on pre-set (setable) parameters (ambient temperature and
such) resulting in fuel savings and total emissions reductions. (This
is now standard on most of CP’s fleet). During 2004-2005
the SRY (Southern
Railway of British Columbia) conducted evaluation tests on two
locomotives with this technology installed resulting in a 26% and 31%
reduction in fuel used over two years. The payback period was nine
months (supply and installation cost for two units was $30,400; fuel
savings was $39,000). In colder climate conditions, the benefits would
be expected to be reduced somewhat.
During
July and August these four Canadian Pacific Railway “Heritage”
diesels are expected to be substituting for the CPR Empress steam
locomotive, sidelined June 24th. It is unclear how long the engine will be down, as its
shop forces must fabricate a part. The engine was in the middle of a
two-month tour of the Canadian Rockies and prairies, and raising money
for the “Children’s Wish Foundation” and the “Friends of Yoho
National Park”.
Andy Cassidy clicked the CPR “Royal
Pacific Express” July 4th with CP FP9A 4107-4106, GP38-2 3084
and F9B 1900 West arriving at Coquitlam (BC) Yard, Mile 110.2, on the
CP Cascade Sub.
Likely many will be
envious of Ralph Beaumont who was fortunate to win (in an auction in
support of the Revelstoke Railway Museum) , for a cab ride in 2816
over Rogers Pass from Golden to Revelstoke, BC! The bad news is
2816 ended up with unexpected repairs, but the good news is Ralph was able
to ride the cab of F unit 4107 and the views he aught were
spectacular. The CP engineer was Chris Blakely and Ralph took shots
in Albert Canyon, with the bridge shot being on the east side of the
pass at Mountain Creek. He tried getting a decent shot at Stoney
Creek Bridge, but when you're travelling westbound, the trees have
grown too high to do it justice. He submitted this additional photo
taken a couple weeks later from the tail end riding on the Mount Royal
CPR business car passing through the tunnels at Eagle Pass.
After photographing the CPR 'Royal
Pacific Express' July 3rd, Cor waited at Morant's Curve for the
“Rocky Mountaineer” in hopes to catch it the new RMR livery. Cor was
not disappointed as in spite of the consist arriving in the original
colour scheme he got terrific shots of the train. He also clicked
their leased genset NREX # 2020, (built new in Sep 2008) as a trailing
locomotive.
A. J. Shewan submitted several
photos of the train between Kamloops and Hope, BC.
http://www.pbase.com/ashewan/recents
Cor van Steenis
compiled this list of the nine heritage passenger cars stored at Ogden
are:
CPR # 3622 MAIL &
EXPRESS CAR (built 1947 as CP Mail-Express 3622)
CPR # 404092 WORK
SERVICE CAR - SUTHERLAND CABLE & BLOCK CAR (built 1952 as CP
Baggage-Express # 4723)
CPR # 404910 WORK
SERVICE CAR - WINNIPEG TOOL & CABLE CAR (built 1920 as CP
Baggage-Express # 4365)
CPR # 404937 WORK
SERVICE CAR - CALGARY CABLE CAR built 1948 as CPR Baggage-Express #
4225)
CPR # 70 BUSINESS
CAR 'ASSINIBOINE' (built 1929; built by Canadian Pacific as
ASSINIBOINE)
CPR # 76 BUSINESS
CAR 'SHAUGHNESSY' (built in 1917 by Pullman/CP as the private car
"CROMARTY" for J.K.L Ross)
CPR # 80 ARCHIVES
DISPLAY CAR (built 1949 as CPR Horse Express Car # 4560)
CPR # 81 ARCHIVES
DISPLAY CAR (built 1949 as CPR Horse Express Car # 4565)
CPR # 83 BUSINESS
CAR 'LACOMBE' (built 1921 as 10 Compartment Sleeper GLEN ROY)
The three Heritage
locomotives currently stored at Ogden are:
CPR FP9A # 1400
(shell)
FM H16-66 # 7009
(privately owned)
CP CPA 16-4 # 4104
(privately owned)
Cor took this shot of
CPR Business Car #76 'SHAUGHNESSY' which was built in 1917 by
Pullman and CP as private car "CROMARTY".
CP VIGNETTES:
BILL BAIRD Sr. 1920-2006
My father William Baird Sr. guided
me greatly in our mutual passion of railway locomotives. As a boy,
we experienced many railfan experiences together at Kings Cross,
Euston and Paddington Stations in London, England, and as a teen at
Westmount Station & Glen Yard in Montreal, Frontier Yard, Bison Yard,
and D&H S.K. Yard in Buffalo, NY, Rigby Yard in Portland, ME and in
later years at Leaside Station (Toronto) CP Agincourt Yard, and
mostly at and CP St-Luc Yard in Montreal. See
my Glen Yard Memories
Over the years I learned which
were his favourite locomotives, The CP FA2, FP7A, SD9043MAC and C424
models, Boston & Maine GP9 (painted blue with white and black ends),
New Haven FL9’s, D&H PA’s, and the NYC Cigar Band livery E8’s.
My
Dad passed away at his home in Niagara Falls on August 2006 and in his
memory, I have included a photo (via J.P Cadieux with thanks) of his
favourite Canadian Pacific locomotive; the CPR 4-4-4 3000-series
“Jubilee” Class. The photo shows one of these beautiful streamlined
speedsters at Westmount “Glen Yard” in the 1950’s, showing the spot
where years later my dad and I would spend many evenings in the late
1960’s and 1970’s watching D&H PA’s, CPR E8’s, FA-2’s, FP7A’s,
FP9A’s and RS10’s. Note those great looking solid large
high-stepping drivers, handsome chrome plating on the pilot, and take
in all of the details in mastermind H.B. Bowen brilliant styling! I
agree with my Dad … This steam locomotive is perfection!
Note the differences
between CPR F9B 1900 taken by the late Roger Boisvert in
Trois-Rivieres QC in 1955, and current CPR F9B 1900 taken by Andy
Cassidy in 2011. The 1955 version of the GP9B purchased new from GMDD
by CPR. The 2011 version of CPR F9B 1900 is ex-Nebkota Railroad
6612, nee-CN 6612. (via Ron Visockis)
@CRO Aug
2011 |
CANADIAN PACIFIC