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Quebec
Smurfit-Stone Container (Canada) 2 (acq. 3/69 ex L&N 24)
Alco S-1 #73586 9/45 October 6, 2006 Sean Kelly
Shown at Walkely Yard in Ottawa waiting for installation of roller bearing
wheelsets for movement back to the US.
By this time all units had been disposed of with switching of the Pontiac
mill turned over to Ottawa Central.
Located in Portage-du-Fort, Quebec, formerly, Abitibi-Consolidated, Stone
Consolidated,
Consolidated Bathurst, originally Bathurst Power and Paper.
A long history came to an end when the mill closed down permanently October
31, 2008 with the loss 218 jobs.
At the time the mill could produce 253,000 tons a year of Northern Bleached
Hardwood Kraft pulp used to make paper.
Holcim Ltd. Z100 (formerly,
Ciment St-Laurent, Ciment Independant) S-11 MLW #82564 7/59 (acq. 6/77 ex
CP 6622)
Re-engined 1987 Detroit Diesel (another source indicates Cummins) by Andrew
Merrilees Ltd.
Note: This was the second last 660 HP CPR unit. Joliette, May 2009
Louis Letourneau
AMF 1251 (ex CN 1251) former CN Pointe St.Charles shops. June 30,1994 Pierre Fournier
Quebec North Shore Paper 22 (acq.6/79) ex Roberval
& Saguenay 22 RS-2 MLW #81185 4/55
Baie Comeau July 13, 1984 Pierre Fournier
CANAC 1336 (ex CN 1336) SW1200RS switching Abitibi Consolidated's Division
Kenogami in Saguenay. March 6, 2006
A one and one half mile spur connects plant to CN at M.201.4 Lac St-Jean Sub.
CFFX (Chemin de Fer du Fjord) 26 on short term lease switching at Abitibi-Consolidated,
Alma. July 22, 2006
(formerly, Abitibi-Price, originally, Price Bros.)
Very unique M-420TR 2000HP Transfer (only two built) ex R&S 26 nee Alcan
26 MLW M6051-01 4/72
Abitibi-Price 49 (acq. 8/84) ex Asbestos & Danville 49 S4 MLW #81258 8/56 Alma, May 3, 1988 Doug Boyd
Ciment Quebec 50-ton B GE St.Basile-de-Portneuf Erick Pelletier
Hydro Quebec 12-012 Plymouth JLC-2 gas #2801 2/28 CRM, Delson. June 30, 1985
Gordon J. Strathdee
Built for Gatineau Power at Chelsea, which became HydroQuebec.
Acquired by the Canadian Railway Museum in 1971 it is presently displayed
in the new Exporail pavilion.
Les Entreprises Martin Lajeunesse Romeo & Juliette acq. 5/02 (ex
St.Lawrence Cement, Beauport) GE 45-tonner #32243 8/54 This is a trucking
company that operates a wood chip reload centre
on its new nearly 1 km spur to the revived Quebec Central, East Angus. They
ship the chips to the Kruger paper mill in Bromptonville, QC and to Domtar
in Windsor, QC.
July 2003 Rod Bushway
Port of Montreal D2 1002 MLW S3 660 HP #77641 5/51 Canadian Railway Museum,
Delson, June 30, 1998
One of eight built new in 1951 to dieselize National Harbours Board, Montreal.
Gordon J. Strathdee
Port of Montreal 7601 SW1001 EMD #758024-1 7/76 3/11/07 Marc Caya
One of two units ordered from GMD and built by EMD. Only SW1001's sold in
Canada.
Port of Montreal 8403 and 2008. 8403 MP15AC GMD A4423 9/84 one of four units
and 2008 ex GTW 4137
EMD #24967 11/58 one of three slugs rebuilt 2000 from ex GTW GP9's. August
14, 2009 Marc Caya
Former Thurso & Nation Valley 10 re# 5132 (nee Singer Manufacturing 1,
Elizabethport NJ) 50-ton GE #28625 9/46
Beautifully restored in operating condition by the Bytown
Railway Society.
Shown 2003 at the Canada Science & Technology Museum in Ottawa along with
restored CP 436436 wooden caboose.
Thurso Pulp & Paper 5133 (acq. 5/70 ex CNR 29) GE 70-tonner #30609 3/50
Thurso June 18, 1988
Gordon J. Strathdee Still at successor Fraser Papers in Thurso.
Thurso 13 (acq. 11/81) GE 70-tonner #28239 10/46 Thurso June 18, 1988 Gordon J. Strathdee
A lot of history here! This was the second 70-tonner built. It spent years working for various Pinsly shortlines in the US before coming to the Thurso & Nation Valley, a non-common carrier railway of the Singer Manfacturing Co. in Quebec. It was re-engined in 1983 with a Cummins diesel. Sold in 1990 to Don Broadbear for use on tourist railway Port Stanley Terminal Rail as PSTR L4. In 1994 it was leased to OSR for use at Babcox & Wilcox in Cambridge (Galt), where it still remains in use.
Union Carbide No# Whitcomb 65-ton 65DE19A #60440 4/44 Beauharnois June 30,
1985 Gordon J. Strathdee
Apparently derelict, this unit came from their Welland plant in 1961.
Acq. 3/47 ex USArmy 8434, MRS 1345.
