ON Northlander cars now in Zwolle, the Netherlands

[MStLfan]

There are now 5 cars of the former Ontario Northland Northlander service (formerly Dutch and Swiss TEE dmu's) stored at the yard of Nedtrain's maintenance faclity in Zwolle, the Netherlands. Three coaches and 2 driving trailers. The power cars were scrapped in Canada.

They were recently moved from Switzerland and brought back to Europe some years back.

Here are some pictures I took 2 weeks ago:

 

 

 

For more information check out these links:

http://www.nicospilt.com/index3.html

http://www.stichtingtee.nl/index.cfm?mn_Id=1

http://www.tee-classics.ch/00.html

greetings,

Marc Immeker

[Pathfinder]

Thanks,

Any idea what is going to happen to them?

[fuzzybroken]

The power cars were scrapped in Canada.

The power cars were manufactured by Werkspoor, which jokingly became a description of how well they ran in the "balmy" Ontario winters -- "Works Poor".

Nice photos Marc!

[MStLfan]

They will be restored for charter train service I think. A Swiss group had the same plans but the could not secure financing apparently. Plans call for either building a new power car or "kitbashing" one of the driving trailers. 3 axle trucks from Dutch class 1200 electrics (designed by Baldwin / Westinghouse and build locally here in the Netherlands) would be used and the powerplant from class DE3 dmu's. They are contemporaries of these dmu's which were class DE4 . A few DE3's are still waiting for the scrapper or sale to some poor railway company, plans for selling them to Cuba fell through some years back.

Personally I would like to see them with a Nohab / AFB diesel loco (EMD F7 clone with double cab) in push-pull service as delivered to Denmark, Norway, Hungary (Nohab) and Belgium and Luxemburg (AFB). A number of them are available e.g. in Germany or Denmark.

As for livery I prefer yellow and blue (but then, I am Dutch and see these colors daily on our passenger trains) over the red and cream of the TEE.

greetings,

Marc Immeker