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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater Wcleome to the forum, Chris! Have fun and post away! It's always great to see another Canadian on here. The switcher clearly once belonged to CP because it stll has CP's old maroon and grey colours, but is now lettered for it's new owner. I wouldn't mind finding out more about the history of this engine and why it appears to be sitting on top of a gravel pile. It looks like it hasn't been used in years. If it's just being left to sit there and rust, it ought to be donated to a railroad museum. My dad works at a mine that used to use a switcher like this, plus 2 smaller ones, although they were gone before I was born. I don't know what ever happened to them. [/quote] Thanks for the welcome!! [:D] Great to be here to talk about trains! The loco is at a sawmill in a small town called Canel Flats. The sawmill supposidly relied on railways to transport them. However, CP Rail started raising prices to haul them because they wanted to haul Commodites, such as grain, Gravel, ect. (I was told this and I am not sure if i'm right) The sawmill soon found it was cheaper to haul the logs and lumber by truck than by rail. How or why it got abandoned there I do not know. The gravel pile probably got there by snowplows during the winter. Notice the yellow thing on one of the hoods? I bet that's a part of the train! The pic was taken in 1995, when me and dad went down there to overlook the installation of some sawmill equipment. I was 8 at the time (I'm 16 now, and that's me on the train)[:I] I took a look at a GE 45 tonner on the 'net, at it does bear some resemblence. Thanks for the ID! Chris
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