JUSTIN FRANZ Pan Am Railway Paints Another Heritage Unit
PAN AM RAILWAY has added Maine Central-painted GP9 No. 52 to its nascent heritage locomotive fleet. Dressed in a simplified green scheme applied to MEC power when it was repainted in the late ’60s, No. 52 joins GP9 No. 77, which was released from the former MEC Waterville Shop in Boston & Maine maroon and gold in August 2011 (see RAILNEWS, Novem-
END IS IN SIGHT FOR GEEPS, SD40-2S: Canadian Pacific’s long-rumored plunge into the world of EMD’s ECO repowering program is at hand. Canadian Pacific will begin a pro- gram to have Progress Rail rebuild GP9 and SD40-2 locomotives with the Electro-Motive Diesel 710ECO repower package. The GP9s will stripped for parts and scrapped, donating parts such as trucks and traction motors to “GP20C-ECO’s,” essentially new 2000 h.p. lo- comotives powered by turbocharged 8-cylinder 710 engines. So far, about 35 old Geeps, of CPR and Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo her- itage, have been scrapped for parts.
Dome Visits the Midwest
IN ADDITION TO ITS USUAL VISIT to the Adirondack during fall foliage season (RAIL- NEWS December 2011) Amtrak ran former Great Northern full dome, Ocean View out of Chicago on the Lincoln Service trains (Chica- go-Springfield-St. Louis) and on the Michigan trains over the 2011 holiday season. On Christmas morning (right) it was in the con- sist of P301, heading south on the old Alton Route (currently UP) over the Kankakee River at Wilmington, Ill., shot from a public park which overlooks the bridge. A bonus was B32- 8WH No. 500 running second out. Normally these trains run with only one unit, though often with a “cabbage” on one end.
24 MARCH 2012 •
RAILFAN.COM
ber 2011). No. 52 led Guilford-painted GP9s 71 and 51 on SAPPI-3 off the Hinckley Branch heading for Waterville at Shawmut, Maine, on December 24, 2011. Pan Am is one of the few large railroads that maintains a fleet of unrebuilt Geeps in regular service. Canadian Pacific’s are on short time due to the ECO repowering project (see “End is in Sight” below left).
The SD40-2s will reportedly be stripped and
used as “cores” for the new SD30C-ECO’s, re- ceiving new cabs and 12-cylinder 3000 h.p. 710 engines, among other improvements. The four- motor units will be built at Progress Rail’s new EMD plant in Muncie, Ind., while the SD’s will be done at Mayfield, Ky. Ultimately, up to 350 units may be rebuilt; the GP20C-ECO’s will be numbered in the 2200 series and the SD’s in the 5000s. Certainly, CPR has plenty of SD40- 2 cores to go around.
Mineral Range
TO REACTIVATE MICHIGAN ROUTE: Mineral Range, Inc. (MRI) plans to acquire 12 miles of Lake Superior & Ishpeming trackage between Landing Junction at the west end of Euclid Yard in Ishpeming, Mich., and Hum- boldt Junction, and to lay new track on two miles of the ex-LS&I Republic Branch between Humboldt Junction and Humboldt in order to
PAUL W. BURGESS
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60