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How many Class I Railways still have a SW8 on roster, switching IMS? The unit has since been put in storage.
CP 1010, SW8 slug, pulling an intermodal. Powered by a GP9u.
This 12 axle platform is just short of a load. I had to zoom out to fit it in!
It was coupled next to a string of ballast hoppers and other flats. Oddly the one time I did see a loaded one on a IMS, there were no ballast hopeprs next to it.
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The view you'll see if you're being run over by a train. Shot from public property, obviously it wasn't moving. Looks a bit like a 2300 series ALCO with the short hood, round roof & no dithlights...
GWWD has been around since the first World War, maintaining Winnipeg's aqueduct. Today they operate 3 ALCO's, 2 RS-23's and a S-13, not to mention ancient rolling stock. Although they're self-seficent for the most part, they do have interchanges with CN & CP.
Today when GE ES44DCs have taken over CN, while SD40-2s & SD50Fs are being retired in droves, its hard to believe that earlier this year CN was still leasing 50 Alstom SD40-3s, all ex-CN SD40s. Power policy sure changed quickly!
Back in 2004 I managed to catch three trio sets working the...
Fomer Ontario Hydro unit, reassigned to CP in 1979, then to CN in 1996, then back to CP in 2000, retired in 2002, sold to NRE. Caught with 4 other CP/SOO retired SD40-2's.
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