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  1. Scrap 'em

    Scrap 'em

    The fate of the mechanical refers is piled high in the foreground as their worth on the rails is less than scrap value.
    • RoadRailer
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    • refer scrap
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Maintenance of Way and Non-Revenue Cars
  2. Strongfield Deadline

    Strongfield Deadline

    The CP has several old and unusual cars out for storage on the northern tip of the Outlook Subdivision.
    • zartok-35
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    • car deadline freight old scrap storage strongfield
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Maintenance of Way and Non-Revenue Cars
  3. The last cut

    The last cut

    This EMD block has been stripped of all usable parts and what remains is being cut up.
    • Bruce Butler
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    • scrap
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Detail Photos
  4. GN boxcar!

    GN boxcar!

    Last time I was @ IPSCO (major scrapper) I spotted an old NP mail coach, so I knew there was treasre to be found. On my last trip to Regina I made sure I didn't miss any of it, by driving around every block of the compound. I got lots of strange looks from buldozer operators, but look what I...
    • Romet
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    • boxcar gn ipsco regina scrap scrapper
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Freight Cars
  5. CP coil car

    CP coil car

    While very rare in Sutherland, these coil cars are a fixture of the Regina scene. I won't be suprised if there are 100 in the city at any given time, always in long-cuts of at least a dozen! The steel they carry is the by-product of all those cars being scrapped @ IPSCO.
    • Romet
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    • coil cp regina scrap steel
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Freight Cars
  6. Tanker warehousing

    Tanker warehousing

    Ever wonder, what Railroads do when they run out of room in the yard? They stack them! One on top the other, sometimes they roll on their sides, hopefully nothing leaks. I wonder how long IPSCO stores them like this? Maybe they're sheds of some sort... Possible a junk yard part depo. Let's...
    • Romet
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    • ipsco regina retired scrap tanker trankers
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Freight Cars
  7. Epic waistland?

    Epic waistland?

    It looks like a scene of a derailment, yet all the trucks are missing. Possibly a hundred (at least 30) tankers side by side in multiple piles. I'm guessing IPSCO doesn't have enough rail sidings to store all their junk, so they simply take retired cars off the rails and stack them, just like...
    • Romet
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    • ipsco pile regina scrap tanker trankers
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Freight Cars
  8. So long IMS!

    So long IMS!

    IMS has seen massive traffic growth in the last decade, yet CN is scrapping theirs! These aren't old ones either, all of 1992 vintage. While CP continues to use 'ancient' in comparison flats of 1970 BLT, I believe I've also seen a couple '68's in the mix. Note that they're all wearing safety...
    • Romet
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    • cn end ims intermodal ipsco regina retirement scrap stack
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Freight Cars
  9. NP baggage shed

    NP baggage shed

    IPSCO doesn't scrap everything they receive - this old baggage car for instance is used as a storage shed, right next to: BMS 307 Berlin Mills Railway 50 boxcar WPEX 67100 Golden WP reefer 50 CP 203118 50 red boxcar Not to mention a BN 40 boxcar and two CN 40s, all with roofwalks...
    • Romet
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    • baggage cp ipsco np regina scrap shed storage
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Rolling Stock
  10. It's all over

    It's all over

    CNWX 106418, your typical Prarie hopper of yesterday, lies on its aside, atop a pile of PS-2 hoppers, incluidng a GCCX ex-SOO. Note the wrecking crane in the background.
    • Romet
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    • cn cnwx cwb cylindrical hopper ipsco regina scrap
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Freight Cars
  11. RIP CN cabooses

    RIP CN cabooses

    CN 79837 (still on roster in '05) and CN 78108 (International Service) await to be cut-up into cans. Right behind them is a string of UP PS-2 hoppers, including CNW 753145, still with ROCK reporting marks stenciled underneath!
    • Romet
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    • caboose cn cnw ex-cnw ex-rock international ipsco ps-2 regina rock scrap service up
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Caboose
  12. Van convention?

    Van convention?

    How unusual is it to see 5 cabooses all together outside of a museum or a tourist RR setting. As you can probably guess by the couch in the foreground, this isn't the best setting by far - a converted landfill, i.e. garbage hill. These cabooses along with various work equipement, mostly bunk...
    • Romet
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    • bunk caboose cemr cp mow north scrap transcona van winnipeg yard
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Caboose
  13. Rockford

    Rockford

    A GE 44 tonner shoves gons of scrap at the Behr West Yard in Rockford, Illinois.
    • FRN
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    • 44 502 ge rockford scrap tonner yard
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Industrial and critters
  14. Scrap train

    Scrap train

    Take a good look at this train, as you'll never see the cars it's hauling again. This is the end of the line! CP 1127 & 3027 (GP35 Slug & GP38-2) are the switcher set regularly assigned to this job. Note open hopper #120 at the side, its of many open hoppers owned by Mandak for...
    • Romet
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    • cp end gp35 gp38-2 line mandak of retirement scrap selkirk slug the
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Canada
  15. CBNS 2000

    CBNS 2000

    A typical neglected CN caboose, bought from a junk yard. All it has is a small patch that says CBNS 2000... Wonder when its going to get painted?
    • Romet
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    • 2000 caboose cbns cn ex-cn paint scrap stellarton
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Caboose
  16. Caboose in the rough

    Caboose in the rough

    Bought by CBNS shortline from a scrap yard in 1997, this old rusty car is part of its 3 caboose fleet (all ex-CN). The other two have been painted, and look much more better though. Caught in their main yard coupled next to a flanger and a platform, all ex-CN as well.
    • Romet
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    • caboose cbns ex-cn scrap stellarton
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Caboose
  17. A survivor form 1946!

    A survivor form 1946!

    Build in 1946, went into service in 1947, most of the fleet retired in 1973. Looking at how well it is preserved, I'm guessing it spend the last 30 years in a sliding somewhere. Now it's at the scrapyard, waiting to be scrapped. I've seen a lot of relics there, but this has to be the best!
    • Romet
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    • 1946 cp gatx mandak mrm scrap selkirk steel survivor tanker
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Freight Cars
  18. Retirement

    Retirement

    This old SD40-2, CP 5601, is waiting to be scrapped, sitting at the yard, freezing in the snow one last time.
    • Romet
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    • 5601 cp dead line mandak mrm retired scrap sd40-2 winnipeg yard
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Canadian Pacific
  19. CP 5507 - SD40

    CP 5507 - SD40

    This old SD40 rests on the dead line next to SOO 755 (SD40), CP 5580 (SD40-2), St L&H 5448 (SD40-2) in the backround and CP 5689 (SD40-2). They're all in Winnipeg to be scrapped.
    • Romet
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    • 5507 cp dead line mandak mrm retired scrap sd40 winnipeg yard
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Canadian Pacific



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