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Date: 11/22/19 07:30. Re: Canadian National's Busy Iron Range. Author: Ohiorailfan. BLE 904. While 2033 was coming into the yard we heard 2006 prepare to leave north. Leaving the north end of Proctor was clean CN #2006 leading 2 other GE's on a limestone train. The last photo is of the 2006 at Munger.
Date: 05/17/15 13:11. Re: Canadian "mile" markers. Author: hoggerdoug. Canadian railways still use miles, tons, footage, gallons, pounds and horsepower. The metric system never was applied to railway operations in Canada. I was raised in the early stages of Metric but still use in my mind the Imperial method.
That's when Grand Trunk's parent company, Canadian National Railway Co., planned to shut down local operations and began rerouting the freight trains that were separated and rebuilt in Battle Creek. "I really see this as a positive," said Duncan, a conductor and former yardmaster. "It's definitely a step in the right direction.
The route through the Yellowhead was finally completed by Canadian Northern, a private company that started as a regional railroad in Manitoba and western Ontario. But in the meantime, the Canadian government unwisely decided to build a government-owned transcontinental railway called the National Transcontinental.
As a disclaimer - in terms of starting a thread which describes the various routings, schedules, destinations, etc. for Canadian Pacific and Canadian National routings through the Chicago Metro area, I assume the "Canadian Railroads" forum is the most closely related form for this particular topic (especially since Chicago seems to sit "on the ...
One Canadian oddity is that the fuel guages on the side of the fuel tanks of GMD locomotives were marked in Imperial gallons. For a long time, the engine governor oil came in plastic quart bottles from Texaco which included an illustration of a British Railways "Brush" Class 47 diesel locomotive in the 1960's paint scheme.
While the railroad has in the past used their steam locomotives to haul freight cars between the interchange a Leaman Place and East Strasburg, former New York Central SW-8 #8618 usually handles those chores. 1. Strasburg's former Canadian National 2-6-0 #89 is headed back to East Strasburg with the third train of the day.
Date: 10/08/24 17:49. Death Stars on A408. Author: MaryMcPherson. Southbound and headed for home on I-57 south of Effingham, we found ourselves overtaking a southbound on Canadian National's former Illinois Central mainline. I suspected it was train A408 headed for Centralia, which frequently has SD70's for power still painted in Illinois ...
Date: 06/16/23 05:45. CN changes crews in Effingham now? Author: Gerrypaul. I'm a bit out of the loop lately. This subject may have had posts a while back of which I am unaware: Has Canadian National now moved its crew district in Illinois from Champaign to Effingham? I have heard something to this effect.
These 20 locomotives had 74" drivers, 26 x 32 cylinders, a boiler pressure of 270 psi, a weight of 474,500 lbs and a tractive effort of 67,088 pounds.The CRI&P had the largest fleet (85) of these locomotives in the United States and was second to the Canadian National Railroad in North America and third to the USSR in the world.