Ok i am currently planning the trains i intend to run on my layout before i start building so i know what i need to buy track wise one of the trains intend to have is a train of Brand new locomotives for export on there way to the docks for shipping to there new owners my Problem I have no idea how I remember seeing a picture a few years back of what seamed to be a train of Just New EMD Series 66 locomotives but that's all i know on the matter and could just some help
Ben
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thebarnet Ok i am currently planning the trains i intend to run on my layout before i start building so i know what i need to buy track wise one of the trains intend to have is a train of Brand new locomotives for export on there way to the docks for shipping to there new owners my Problem I have no idea how I remember seeing a picture a few years back of what seamed to be a train of Just New EMD Series 66 locomotives but that's all i know on the matter and could just some help.
Ok i am currently planning the trains i intend to run on my layout before i start building so i know what i need to buy track wise one of the trains intend to have is a train of Brand new locomotives for export on there way to the docks for shipping to there new owners my Problem I have no idea how I remember seeing a picture a few years back of what seamed to be a train of Just New EMD Series 66 locomotives but that's all i know on the matter and could just some help.
That would be a train that only runs a couple times a year. If that. Most engines are delivered in groups of 2-4 engines on regular trains. Most railroads don't buy that many engines in one whack. And running them in a special train is very expensive.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
Ben,
Found a few pics at the top of this page:
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/diesel101.html
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Gidday Ben, a link to some more photos by a forum member....
http://vanderheide.ca/trains.html and another link...................
http://hfxtrainspotting.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/export-locomotives/
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
These export units were all shipped in dedicated trains:
http://acsoosub.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=29271
http://acsoosub.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=29269
http://acsoosub.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=29268
http://acsoosub.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=29273
These were built at the old EMD plant in London, Ontario, and exported via the port at Halifax, Nova Scotia. These particular units would have only been seen on this single route.
Chris van der Heide
My Algoma Central Railway Modeling Blog
Chris,
Once again, you amazed me!!
Thanks for posting those unique shots, both times!!! Ha hah..
Heh, thanks Chad. Sadly, with the closure of the London plant these shots are no longer possible. For each of those trains above I knew they were coming via a source on the local shortline railroad that served the plant.
Note that domestic locomotives bound for US roads were handled in regular trains as suggested by others above, a la:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=2104
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=1748
Chris,it's too bad this had to change like that, must have been some interesting rail watching.Thanks again for sharing!
Thanks everyone for the information Chris especially those pictures that you have linked to are really going to be useful thank you
On a tangentially-related issue, here is a photo of a newly manufactured diesel locomotive being delivered from US manufacturer to Mexican railways. Locomotive is not pulling a train but being moved as part of the cargo. Texas Mexican Railway Joint Yard, Corpus Christi. (1970s?) Occasionally two or three units seen together.
This photo is from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi /Bell Library Special Collections and Archives website, of photos I contributed to the archives.