CANADIAN PACIFIC
CP Locomotives Retired
The following CP locomotives were retired since the last issue: CP SD9043MAC's, 9129, 9133 and 9138 all on December 2ndThe following ex-CP locomotives arrived at the CP yard in Coquitlam, BC in November and December: GP7u 1510, GP9u’s 1520, 1583 and 1689, SD40-2’s 5599, 5643, 5692, 5702, 5714, 5720, 5772, 5778, 5808, 5816, 6057, and GP9u 8235, all purchased by J&L Consulting (JLCX). Another unit, ex-CP SD40-2 5715 is currently at Calgary defective, and had to be set off during its move. During December, JLCX SD40-2’s 5702. 5599, 5692, and 5816 were scrapped on the J&L’s siding inside the CN yard in Langley, BC. On December 18th, JLCX SD40-2 5643 was prepped and shipped to the POVA RR Shops (via BNSF), for qualification and repairs for Lease. JLCX GP9u 8235, has been sold to a shortline in Ontario and is currently being prepared at the (Southern Railway of BC) SRY shop in Vancouver, BC, for delivery to the new owners in January 2011. JLCX SD40-2 5720 will be sent to the SRY for dismantle preparation, and then is to be scrapped at CN-Langley yard. J&L Consulting will send the other ex-CP units from CP-Coquitlam to the SRY as available shop space opens up. On arrival, each will have their condition evaluated to determine whether they will be repaired, or scrapped. Others are still enroute too. As of December 18th, seven more remain stored at Moose Jaw, SK: SD40-2’s 5611, 5683, 5684, 5696, 5709, 5805, and 5830. J&L Consulting informed CRO in the marketplace for 2nd hand power, the GP9u’s are more in demand than SD40-2’s, but can be expensive to get them in running condition, and fully compliant. Therefore, depending on their ROI, some geeps may end up being scrapped as well. Update on the four retired ex-CP SD90MAC-H's 9300-9303: They were to be sold in December 2010 to the Saudi Arabia Railway (SAR), but we learned the deal had fallen through. Prior to this news, the first week of December CP had moved them all to Toronto. On December 5th Train 232 lifted 9300 and 9301 enroute to Montreal St-Luc Yard for storage. On December 8th Train 234 had 9302 and 9303 for Montreal. Unit 9303 had no functioning air brakes between Winnipeg and Montreal. SAR had been spending lots of money in Canada this year having ordered a fleet of SD70ACe's from GM and double stack cars from National Steel Car. There are still no buyers for this CP quartet. Bob Heathorn clicked Train 234-07 out of Smiths Falls, ON with 9303 and 9302 already on the move when he got to the station. He clicked two fast shots and then Bob highballed to Merrickville, ON for the photo on the bridge. (Mark Forseille’s photo is from 2001)
During December 2010, CP retired three of their stored unserviceable SD9043MAC's 9100-series, 9129, 9133 and 9138 retired on December 2nd. The units are being stripped of all usable parts by CP and then scrapped at Mandak Metal Processors. Mandak is a division of Gerdau Ameristeel who own the steel mill in Selkirk, Manitoba. CP 9133 has been earmarked as the first to be cut up, followed by 9138 and 9129 with the locomotive trucks returned to CP. It is interesting to note while these 9100’s are being cut up, CP is considering an overhaul of the remaining SD9043MAC fleet, more on this if we get confirmation.
The Canadian Pacific Railway has announced their schedule for 2011 for the “ROYAL CANADIAN PACIFIC” train:
http://www.canadianrailwayobservations.com/2011/jan11/cp2011cvs.htm
The former CP Glen Yard in Montreal, QC, is the future site for the new super hospital, and will include a makeover for the health-care system in the city, and the latest in medical and environmental technologies. However before the McGill University Health Centre can begin plowing ahead with construction, it was important to take a look back, to peer into the Glen's past lives as a pristine prehistoric wilderness, a family homestead and a bustling rail yard. Archaeologists from Ethnoscop, the firm hired by the MUHC and its partners, began work at the Glen Yard in 2005. The most important discoveries by the Ethnoscop teams in spring 2005 and spring 2006 were the remains of an ancestral home and nearby brick-manufacturing facility belonging to the Décarie family, the vestiges of a home built in the mid-19th century, the remnants of rail equipment used by CP beginning in the late 19th century, and a junkyard used by CP to dispose of supplies from its passenger cars. The remains of the rail yard's roundhouse were located, as was a CP dump containing everything from dinnerware to a spittoon. The Ethnoscop team compiled its findings in a 223-page report, but did not suggest preserving any of the dig sites. "However, we recommend a display be created in the new hospital that would allow (the public) to view some of the artifacts unearthed in the house on Lot 188A, the Décarie home and in the CP dump." (Edited from Montreal Gazette 101207)
Here is a link to CRO's Glen Yard story. http://www.canadianrailwayobservations.com/PDF/CRO_glen2010.pdf
In December a pair of (Norfolk Southern leased) HLCX ex-BNSF SD40-2’s graced the D&H North End by leading CP 931/930. This great shot was taken by Gary Knapp on Rogers Island in Fort Edward, NY on December 17, 2010 at 04:44AM.
Paterson Global Foods Inc. (Paterson Grain Co. prior to 2005) is constructing a new state-of-the-art inland export terminal (their ninth on the prairies) in Gleichen, Alberta. The "Long Plain Terminal" will offer 28,000 metric tonnes of storage and the fastest loading of any prairie terminal. The new terminal is located in the heart of Wheatland County, at M 123 of the CPR's Brooks Subdivision, one mile south of the Trans-Canada Highway on the Siksika Trail (Hwy 901), some 50 miles east of Calgary, AB. It will include the first grain loop track in Canada — an innovative way to load grain cars. The loop track is designed to allow locomotives to remain connected to a train, providing for continuous and timely loading of rail cars. The Gleichen loop track will be built for 130 rail cars that will load in almost half the time of a comparable traditional prairie terminal rail car spot.
Walter Pfefferle caught one of the empty ethanol trains Decmeber 30th as it headed eastbound on the Galt sub toward Woodstock Ontario. A wet and cloudy day as CEFX 1024 led CP 8815 with it long strings of tank cars.
Nice shot! CP GP38-2 3037 is seen picking up freight cars at the Celgar pulp mill in Castlegar, BC, on May 9, 2010 (Ruth Parfeniuk photo).
In December, even more snow accumulates on the eastern side of the Elko grade, and on November 29th, Kevin Dunk clicked CP AC4400CW 8530 about to crest the Elko grade with early snow. This westbound general manifest freight has CP 8754 trailing and is passing near the location of the old Elko Station, which was moved a number of years ago to the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel in Cranbrook, BC.
Jason Maino sent us this photo of CP 9824 posing at Scranton PA with the Holiday Train on November 27, 2010.
Jeff Keddy submitted this video taken Dec. 5th at Marquette, Manitoba (MP 27.1 west of Winnipeg on the CP Carberry Sub), showing an eastbound CP freight along with a westbound empty coal drag and the westbound CPR Holiday Train.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybnAdwm8azE
December 5th at Mile 168 on the Scotford Sub, (Edmonton, AB) Jesse Acorn caught very rare CP RAIL-liveried SD40-2 5911. It is one of only two still wearing the full-sized “Multi-Mark”.
In December, three units previously based in Winnipeg were reassigned into hump service at Alyth Yard in Calgary; CP 6607, 6609 and 6616. All three are former SOO SD40-2’s acquired in 1991, that were repainted and fitted with remote control equipment about five years ago. (C. van Steenis)
It is not often that a pure SOO LINE lash up is the motive power on a CP train in the west, but that was the case on CP No. 460 from Alyth Yard to Moose Jaw (SK), on December 13th. SOO 6045 and 6033 are seen the way SD60’s look best (back to back), approaching the switch at Ogden, Calgary, AB. (Cor van Steenis Photo).
Years after CP AC4400CW 9554 was wrecked near Dresbach, Minnesota, in Nov of 2007, the unit was repaired at Relco Locomotives in Albia, Iowa, and released in early 2010. It is seen here at Ogden, Calgary, on 27 Nov 2010 on the point of CPR Train No. 198, the daily intermodal service from Coquitlam, B.C., to Bensenville, Illinois (near Chicago) waiting for a clear signal to head east on the Brooks Subdivision. The unit was delivered to CPR in 1995 in the dual flags paint scheme and now sports the current red with white lettering scheme.
Cor van Steenis caught the 2010 CPR Holiday Train after it left Alyth Yard in Calgary at mid-morning of Dec 9th 2010 heading for Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan. he caught the train under overcast winter skies at Beddington (in north Calgary, AB.) on the Red Deer Subdivision.
On December 2nd, Cor van Steenis caught CP Track Evaluation Train No. 63, with CP GP9u 8205 on the point. After arrival in Calgary it was put into the Remington Spur adjacent to the 12th Street Tower for the afternoon and prepared for its next destination: Field, B.C.
During mid-December 2010, CPR FP9A #1400 (only a shell) and two privately owned units: FM H16-66 #7009 and CP CPA 16-4 #4104, were moved within Ogden Yard, Calgary, AB. Cor van Steenis’ photo shows them on a storage track beside Ogdendale Road. Canadian Pacific has decided to keep the shell of FP9A #1400 (note the word 'KEEP' painted on the unit below the 'CANADIAN' lettering). The two privately owned units were to have been removed from Ogden Yard by December 15th 2010, but the owner had not yet found a suitable site to re-locate the locomotives. When he does, the units are to be relocated.
As well, privately owned CP Rail-liveried H16-44 8554 and CP RS-23 8017 were pulled out of the dead line, and in mid-December were moved to Alyth Yard, fueling speculation these were about to head out. Then at month end we learned RS-23 8017 was destined to the railway museum at Beiseker, AB. (Cor van Steenis news photos and Vignette roster shot from Bill Sanderson’s photo collection).
CP has been disposing of some of their stored surplus baggage/passenger cars and posted them for sale on their website www.cpr.ca Any cars receiving no interest will be scrapped. On December 21 and 22, CP sorted and marshaled a number of 'heritage' cars at their Ogden Yard in Calgary. These former passenger and baggage cars converted to MOW use, stock car, and several bulkhead flats were all marshaled at the west end of the yard, for what appeared to be imminent departure. As well, a number of cars were pushed into a storage track along Ogdendale Road and marked 'SCRAP'. CPR #411714 was advertised for sale in the CP Sale of Surplus Heritage Equipment but obviously found no interested buyer. The other three cars were not listed in that sale. The cars destined to be scrapped are as follows: CPR # 401807 WORK SERVICE CAR built in 1918 by CPR Angus Shops, Mtl, as CPR Railway Post Office # 3774, in service until 1959; initially marked 'SOLD', the car now has a line painted through the SOLD CPR # 404506 WORK SERVICE BOX CAR built in 1929 by National Steel Car as CP Box Car # 247185; marked 'SCRAP' CPR # 411369 COOK-DINER-SLEEPER built in 1926 by CC&F as Sleeper # 6325 PARRY SOUND; marked 'SCRAP' CPR # 411714 SUDBURY AUXILIARY BOARDING CAR built 1952 by CC&F as Baggage Car # 4730; marked 'SCRAP'.
A new arrival on 21 Dec 21st 2010 to the 'dead' line at Ogden Yard in Calgary was CP #404937 the CALGARY CABLE CAR. Built in 1948 by Canadian Car & Foundry as CPR Baggage-Express # 4225; in 1970 converted to work service as # 404937. After 62 years in service, it is unknown what is to become of this car; there are no markings on this car to indicate its fate but all other cars on the same track are marked 'SCRAP'.
Earlier in the month a 90 year old car recently arrived at Ogden Industrial Park (adjacent to the main Ogden Yard), CP Work Service Car #404910 and CP #404113, are believed to be the oldest cars in the operational MOW fleet. The cars were built in late 1920 by Canadian Car & Foundry and CPR as part of the 17 car BE Series 4351-4373 and have seen 90 years of service this month. CP 404910 started as CP Baggage-Express #4365, was re-numbered to #4547 and in 1963 entered work train service. It most recently was part of the Winnipeg Auxiliary. This car was not listed in CPR's recent tender for surplus heritage equipment and the final destination of this car remains unknown at this time. (Cor van Steenis)
CP Vignettes:On October 21st, 1979 CP train 942 (The "Salad Bowl Express") is seen in Arnold Mooney’s great shot blasting through Zorra, ON. This train (with C&O 3006, 3525, 3529 and 3002), was on a run through agreement with the Chesapeake & Ohio where CP and the C&O got into this hot traffic, basically a train heavy on reefers with fresh vegetable produce from California. (Bruce Mercer added: 942 and 937 matched the C&O hot trains of the day, 42 and 37, between Detroit and Chicago. 37 would later fade into oblivion and 41 would become the counterpart. When the two roads had a falling out, 41/42 would revert to being Chicago/Buffalo all the way via C&O's own rails. There were many rumors about why the C&O power would not go beyond Windsor or London, ON and yet we have photographic evidence of the C&O units at locations all the way to Agincourt Yard. My guess is C&O didn't want to have to payback the HPH, they just wanted the notoriety of the fast service). (Bill Miller added: C&O GP30 3000 in the photo became CSXT 4200, and was later sold to AGR 2179. Oddly only 6 of 48 C&O GP30's survived to become road slugs, with the majority of the GP30-bodied RdMates coming from B&O or from other cores supplied by the rebuild. As well in 1979 there were several C&O GP30 and GP35's leased to CP and not only led trains but at times ran in solid sets).
Great shot! CPR Budd car 9063 at Don Station in Ontario in 1965. (Photo by Jack Dyer).
Ben Martin took this nice shot of D&H GP38-2 7312. leading a southbound move with the bridge span lifted from Rogers Island, New York during the US Thanksgiving weekend in 1997.
Bob Heathorn submitted these images of the only two SW1500's ever in CP colors 1298 and 1299. These SW1500's were ex-RF&P units, and leased from Omnitrax in July 2001 for over one year in full CP paint. They were assigned to the D&H for most of their time on CP and Bob Heathorn caught them at Smiths Falls, Ontario July 15th 2001.
Doug Stark posted this link on CRO FB showing OMLX 1299 working in Atlanta , GA in 2008, and still in CP paint!
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1398474
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