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I've seen two different 97xx's in the past two weeks with odd decal jobs... they had the "Canadian Pacific" lettering spelled out in a single line on the carbody... no beaver.. and the paint looked like someone had taken off the old paint with a grinder, then rolled new paint over top the ...

CN: Chicago National

Though it seemed a little more appropriate when E Dot was in charge.. now that Claude is running the show, it's starting to feel a little less American around the Canadian side...

Pollution tanks... that said, I have no idea where the pollution tank is on the new SD70M-2's. I'll have to read a book and try and find out...

Most of the rails around here wouldn't be able to handle the torture of 6-axle power on yard duties. Poor track would get all torn up... mainline rail is much beefier.

To the Westshore terminal, then onto a boat.

http://www.westshore.com/

^ Their website has a list of boats, if you want to see where its headed.

I'm trying to find information on the trail that runs along the old BNSF line from Government Street (near Hwy 1/Gagliardi area) up to Lake City... in Burnaby, BC. I understand it used to be a spur line to the Lake City industrial area... but that's about it. I'm assuming it used to run just south o...

The three new "state-of-the-art" dual-hoist cranes added to the third berth at Deltaport: http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac345/mmmcoles/Roberts%20Bank/100_5958.jpg And some links for your perusal: http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/mediaroom/releases-2010-h005e-5800.htm http://www.portmetrovancou...

http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac34 ... 0_5953.jpg

Three coal trains wait for their turns in the dumper..

Ok, they're too big to upload here, and too big to post from Photobucket directly. So here's a link: http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac345/mmmcoles/Roberts%20Bank/100_5961.jpg This is standing on the Deltaport Way overpass... looking SW, with a CP transfer set bringing in intermodal cars. On the ...

Two of them:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=332374
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=332214

I particularly like the second one.. maybe they should have made it CNSF...?

..or is CN putting their money on the chance that UP and BNSF have maintained these Dash 8's better than CN has maintained anything in the past 15 years...? It seems like everything in our fleet is neglected to the point of imminent failure. And training, parts, etc... are impossible to come by. May...

We had a yard engine the other day, breaking the wheels free... the output from the WS module, one of the wires had come off... damn thing would spin the wheels til the overspeed kicked in. No output from teh WS module means no protection against wheel slip.. and Sparks a flyin'!

I suspect they will see a second life in the second hand market as lease units, picked up by a Class 1 like Canadian National looking for a bargain on modern locomotives . Ding ding ding, we have a winner! Not those particular ones... but CN has picked up a bunch of ex-Santa Fe Dash 8's... to be re...

I see that Roberts Bank is getting some big upgrades as part of the "Gateway" program here in Canada... They've added another track just to the north of the existing coal tracks, creating additional space for container traffic (coal uses the four north tracks now, leaving the six south tra...

I hear it's already had a traction motor change out.. wow, reliable like the rest I guess!

2105 is also running around somewhere..