Parrish and Heimbecker

PHLX 177 a 5431 cu.ft. covered hopper car. 6/21/2017 Surrey, BC

Part of a large order.

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Amazon

PHLX 3 ex RLSX 415 ex Dofasco 415 NW2 EMD 5202 7/1947
Amazon, SK 9/2016 Mark Zulkoskey

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Moose Jaw

PHLX 4 (1st) ex 8454 (scroll down for 2 photos) Nee CN 8454.
CP Lethbridge enroute to Aspen Crossing, Mossleigh, AB April 2015

Later to Prairie Dog Central 8454.

PHLX 4 (2nd) Moose Jaw 10/13/2019 Matt Watson

DLCX 1202. promotes a sports team. SW1200 EMD 20059 11/1954
(ex WSOR 1202, ex Soo 1210, ex MILW 705/629 nee 2024)
Ethanol plant, Cambridge, NE 4/24/2008

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Tisdale

PHLX 5 and 6 Three photos; Tisdale, SK 7/8/2017

PHLX 5 GMD-1 clearly showing its heritage as CN 1901 acq. 1/2012 via NRE (D).
GMD A1575 11/1958

PHLX 6 acq. 8/2012 via NRE (D) SE-2B road slug. (ex SP 6765 U23B 5/1981, nee 7565). GE 34959 4/1964.

PHLX 10 acq. 11/2014 SD40M-2 (ex STBX 3139, FURX 3139, GCFX 3139, ex SP 7445 nee SD45 8881)
EMD 32795 4/1967 Tisdale, SK 7/8/2017

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Biggar

PHLX 8 and 13 at Oban elevator (about 8 miles west of Biggar) on CN Wainwright Sub. February 25, 2016

8 acq. 11/20149 (SD45m nee SP 8894 SD45 to 7451 to GCFX 3114 to FURX to STBX to P&H 8)
EMD 32808, 4/1967

13 acq. 10/2014 (ex MJRX 6981 SD40-2 ex BNSF 6981/7321 nee CN 5063 SD40). GMD A2315 9/1968
Note: MJRX 6981 Kansas City, MO 8/24/2013.
MJRX: Railway Service Contractors, Inc. (Mike & Jill Roberts)

PHLX 9 acq. 2/ 2015 (ex STBX/FURX/GCFX 3128, ex SP 7442 nee SP 8875 SD45) SD40M-2 EMD 32789 4/1967
Enroute to Hamlin, SK. Winnipeg 2/26/2015 Terry May

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Gladstone

PHLX 11 SD40M-2 acq. 2015 (ex STBX 3151, CEFX 3151, MVPX 7424, SP 7424 nee SP 8863)
EMD SD45 32777 3/1967

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Moose Jaw

PHLX 15 acq. 2015 SD20 EMD 25411 8/1959 Winnipeg October 2015

Built as SD24B UP 423B to IC Paducah and rebuilt c.1980 into SD20 IC 2012; sold to NRE (D); c.2004 to
Wisconsin & Southern 2012 renumbered to 2054; to Diesel Locomotive Co. (D) DLCX 2054 to BEBX 2054
Biofuel Energy of Fairmont MN; they changed ownership to Green Plains Renewable Energy and then sold this engine.
To Midwest Maintenance, Burlington IA in 9/2014, repairs and repainted PHLX 15;
shipped by October 2015 for Moose Jaw facility. Bruce Mercer

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Two views of Parrish & Heimbecker 8454 an old MLW S-3 with an interesting history.
CNR 8454 MLW 77761 1/1952

Sold 4/1963 Manitoba Paper 30 (2nd), Pine Falls, Manitoba. Became Abitibi Paper, Manitoba Paper Div. 101.
Sold to Railside Locomotive Services 8454 and leased to Prairie Dog Central when their 3 a 4-4-0 became unserviceable.
Shown at P & H (formerly, Robin Hood Flour Mills) elevator in Moose Jaw, SK. March 25, 2010

Both above photos: Ronald Bearman.

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Quill Lake

Track being increased from 50 to 100 cars 2021.

 

PHLX 18 PHOTO NEEDED .... REWARD

SD40-3 ex DLCX 6051, GCFX 6051 nee CN 5195 SD40 GMD A2512 xx/1971

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Yorkton

PHLX 1 acq. 9/2010 (ex Domtar 28-137 nee CN 7734) SW1200 GMD A1809 7/1959

CN Mac Millan Yard enroute to Parrish and Heimbecker Foods, Yorkton, SK
September 18, 2011 Brendan Frisina

NOTE: The Norkraft Domtar pulp mill in Lebel-Sur-Quevillon (QC) had been stopped since November 2005 by a lock out, the mill permanently closed December 18 2008. The pulp mill and the sawmill, also closed, were responsible for 70% of the jobs in this one industry town of 3000 citizens located 600 km north of Montreal.

 

Parrish & Heimbecker Ltd. no number 40-ton CLC 40-H4-A1 #3043 2/1963
Yorkton May 9, 1998 Gordon J. Strathdee

Note: This tiny diesel-hydraulic unit was the last domestic locomotive built by Canadian Locomotive Company

Ordered by Searle Grain Company Ltd. for their grain elevator in Fort William, Ontario.
This elevator became Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 15 which closed in 1987.
Sold in 1995 to P&H for their grain elevator in Yorktown, Sask.

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