60 years and still doing it’s thing-----for CP
Photos taken at Woodstock ON CP yards—Tillsonburg Turn.
Thats the thing about GPs…they are a lot like SW9s, ya pretty much have to wreck them to kill them.
Not quite 60 years old yet. 8201 was bought in 1956 as CPR #8619, renumbered to #8201 in 1982. It was rebuilt as a GP9u with the chop nose in 1977.
8211 was bought in 1957 as CPR #8663. It was rebuilt as a GP9u with the chop nose and renumbered to #8211 in 1988.
Bruce
And well maintained still by the sound they had----
Those must be hard to replace.
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Remember Barry, locomotives that old are always women! SHE sounds good. HER prime mover sounds swell.
Nice shot anyhow!
And on CN too
BNSF has an SW1 #3300 , built June 1939, ex BN #70 still active on its roster. This engine will be 70 years old in 6 months. Maintain the engine and it will run forever.
Maintenance is key to a lot of the locomotives here going for as long as they do–[^]
I love seeing those SW1’s too.[^] I’ve a few pix on negs of those around here----now if only I can find them[?]
Finding an active SW1 is going to be difficult at best. In the early to mid-1980’s, EMD announced that it would no longer manufacture parts specifically for V-6 engines. Shortly after that announcement, a mass retirement of SW1’s by the Class 1’s occurred, I remember seeing some large blocks of CR SW1’s en route to the scrap yard.