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[WCfan]

Nice pictures Robby. Do you know the numbers on those WC Grey Ghosts, I can see some but not all. I want to see if I have any pictures of them in service.

Well there's CN for ya. Pretty stupied all I can say.

Looks like tommrow is gonna be a monster snow storm. If it is I want to try and RF. I would like some winter shots of the switcher. But I got to get up early so i can catch her out to 3M.

[EJE818]

There is supposed to be some snow here also. I'm also going to try getting some winter shots. The CN E9s are still at Homewood so that is a possibility. Here is a list of all the ex-GCFXs I could see, both unpatched or lettered WC. Of course, there are so many there it is impossible to get all the numbers. Unpatched: GCFX 6059 and GCFX 6076. Patched for WC, 6916, 6904, 6913, 6914, 6923, 6925, 6903 and 6909, plus many, many more that were partially hidden behind the ones I listed.

[B.Erdmann]

well i dont know how my december, january  & february railfannin is gonna be. looks ill be busier then i thought haveing to travel w/ the girls basketball team doing stats for our freshman & varsity teams idk how much time ill have. maybe over xmas break. since the snows suppose to come id like to see the train for new london & we  are gonan try to cut down our christmas tree before it snows. i got a list of cars im making that come into NL every time it comes in & out & where they go to get loaded.

 

[EJE818]

Here are photos from today's trip to Homewood, just two, because not much was different today from yesterday.

Another view of the deadline. This is a very long line. It stretches all the way from here to the locomotive shop, and there are more lines not visable here, and this line includes the ex-GCFX SD40-3s, the BCOL SD40-2, a BCOL RS18C, 4 DM&IRs and several CN GMD1s and SW1200RSs

The CN E9s still sit outside the shops. Note DM&IR SDM 317 to the left, the most recent DM&IR retirement. As I mentioned before CN is currently so short of power on the DM&IR they are using two B&LE engines to assist, so why they continue to retire DM&IR power is beyond me. In total, there are 7 DM&IRs stored at Homewood.

Currently, the deadlines are so full of engines at Homewood there is barely any room for anything else. No matter why CN is power short! Total count of engines stored at Homewood according to CN's website, 83, and that was before the ex-GCFX SD40-3s started showing up.

[Noah Hofrichter]

The CN seems to not like leased stuff anymore if they can help it. The only DMIR locomotives they seem to be keeping is the stuff they own (though they did buy out at least one lease), and now the grey ghosts are going...

I do believe the 317 was retired a while back, as there are still three SDMs running around at last report, and it's been that way for a month or two. Probably just took a while for the unit to get down to Homewood. The most recent DMIR retirment that I know of is the 202, except that it's still working. It's been offically retired in the CN computer, but it's still being used on the Missabe until a suitable replacement can be found. They just can do any work or put any money into the engine because of it's status.

I don't beleive I've posted the link to my shot from last Friday here yet. The day after turkey day a couple of freinds and I made a trek to the Davis Junction/Rochelle area. The UP was really moving trains, but we stuck with the ICE action we found when we could. The UP is nice and all, but the shots around the petting zoo are limited, and I'll take a quartet of blue and yellow engines over the UP any day. Managed to catch the Burlington Junctions Geep working around Rochelle, their SW sitting around too. 

My photobucket album with the photos is Here, or if you prefer a slideshow version, that's found Here.

Noah

[NSlover92]

Hey great shots Robby and Noah, I will have a couple of my latest up next post, I am still learning. CN, what's wrong with their top brass they are nuts retiring right and left, I think your on the verge of seeing a version of Conrail in Canada if they keep running it the way they are... Mike

[WCfan]

Nice shot.s Noah.

Robby, none of the grey ghosts I've seen are picture on you picture of the deadline. But I'm sure they are there. Or will be.

[WCL]

Heres some news for ya'll WC fans....

Bad news is the WC 2500 has been given its one way ticket to
Woodcrest. Retired yesterday, which does not say it will appear there
immediately, it could still be working, but it does have the one way
ticket

[WCfan]

That sucks. 2500 was one of my favorite locomotives. I haven't even got a descent shot of her eather.

[trainboyH16-44]

Daaaaang.

[WCL]

Well if you get TRS you can do this....You can drive er...You can take all the pix you want...And yet you can never scrap er....It's the only way to bring back the WC

 

[WCfan]

Sims are good, but not as good as the real thing.....

[WCL]

Well the real thing is going going GONE...So tis the only way to bring em back

[Lord Atmo]

bummer about 2500. at least it'll die peacefully

[coborn35]

B&LE SD45T-2's #903 and #909 have helped out on the Missabe for years.