Two reasons why older Canadian power disappears from time to time. First Canada allows one extra year between tear down inspections of the air brake equipment, so some Canada locomotives reach the end of their Air Brake certification in the US and then they are confined to Canada for a year until they have their Air Brake equipment overhauled at which time they have their US certificates renewed and they again can run in the US. The second is that when the CP SD90MACs were built there were no emissions standards, when Congress passed the Tier 0 standard and made it retroactive back to 1973 these locomotives were included if they were used in the US when it came time for an overhaul. CP was cheap and didn’t bother to make them compliant and instead ordered them kept in Canada, there were a few incidents of them sneaking in to the US briefly, but they were hurriedly sent back. This past spring a very small handful, I have heard both two or three received the necessary upgrade to Tier 0+ standards, but EHH’s decision that CP has excess power sent all SD90MACs back into storage, including the rebuilds.
Does anyone have any photos of the engine room of any of these units? Can you walk through either side either coming or going from the cab? I know the Canadian versions had a part of the cowl body pushed inward for visibility reasons on the engineers side. Those BC rail cowl units seemed massive when I used to watch them around Vancouver. They seem much bigger than another other locomotives.
Great shots CNW 6000. Where was the locations?
I’m not sure if I quite understand your question, but here are photos from mountainrailway.com of both the engineer’s and fireman’s side of the 9001. This is an excellent site to answer many CP loco questions.
http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%209000/CP%209001.htm
http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%209000/CP%209001-2.jpg
Bruce
there’s a few sd40-2s that roll through mn but mostly gevo’s. i usually see a pair of gp 38’s doing local frieght so i doubt emissions are the issue. i bet fuel cost is the main reason we don’t see anything other than gevo’s. also the pilots i’ve talked with don’t like the good old emd’s.
i wish they would run a red barn on the holiday train. that would be way cool.
I took a photo of 9023 in Calgary, Alberta on 30 March 2004.
It seems to me that CN had some of these as well, but I can’t remember. Neat locomotives for sure!
They ran on the ex D&H in New York as late as 2006, and were quite common there. See below:
Leading on the NS Southern Tier
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3263728
Trailing coming into Binghamton NY on the Tier
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3263760
A pair trailing about to enter East Bingamton yard
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3239755
Leading 164 south at the south end of East Binghamton
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3239763
And one for the Christmas season
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2787188
Closest thing that CN had would be the SD50F’s and SD60F’s.
They used to run routinely on the D&H, though I have not seen any sightings of them there in the last few years. They were fairly common in the middle of the last decade:
Binghamton NY
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2869179
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3239763
Two trailing at Sanitaria Springs
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3080029
Three on this one, also at Sanitaria Springs
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2872884
And Merry Christmas, 9014 is the leader
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2787188
TAB
All of CN’s SD50F’s are off roster. They have SD60F’s from 5500-5563 (5512, 5514, 5555, & 5557-59 are gone). The ex-Oakway SD60s are CN 5400-5442.
CN’s remaining SD40s are:
SD40-2W
CN 5242-5299, 5303-5362 (CN 5243, 47-9, 51-7, 58-60, 71, 78, 82, 85, 90, 92, 94, 97, 5306-15, 24, 27, 32-4, 42, 44, 53, 55, & 59-61 are retired)
SD40-2
5366-73, 5376-86 & 5391-2 (CN 5380, 5382, & 5384-5 retired)
SD40u
6000-6028 (CN 6002, 04, 11, & 26 retired)
Thanks. The first shot was near Oshkosh, WI and the second shot was near De Pere, WI.