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British Columbia

Crestbrook Forest Industries

Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd. 14 acq. 9/23/1968 ex CP 14 DTC-2 CLC #2992 3/1958
July 21, 1973 Canal Flats Bill Hooper

Brief history to closure announcement 2015.
Includes photos of CPR trains serving mill.

Crown Zellerbach

CZCX 8427 acq. 9/1980 showing CP chop nose. ex CPR 8427 RS-3 MLW 80992 3/1954
Ladysmith, VI 7/10/1982

Preserved 1986 by Ladysmith Historical Society, acq. 1994 by Western Vancouver Island Industrial Heritage Society,
Lettered for Alberni Pacific 8427 at Alberni Valley Museum, Port Alberni, VI Wayne Merlo

Fraser Surrey Docks

Fraser Surrey Docks 8014 (acq. 2/1992 ex CPR 8014) RS-23 1000 HP MLW #82566 8/1959
November 2000 Chris Blaschuk

IDC Distribution Services Ltd. 001 acq. 12/2004 (ex RPRX 001, nee CP 8134 SW1200RS)
Railpower GK10B 1000 hp "Green Kid" Hybrid battery unit.
Intermodal terminal contractor at Fraser Surrey Docks, Surrey, BC Mark Forseille

http://www.tc.gc.ca/programs/environment/ecofreight/casestudies/IDC-eng.htm

Same unit relettered for parent company Fraser Surrey Docks LP (Limited Partnership)
October 27, 2009 Mark Forseille

United Grain Growers

Two photos of UGG 6503 switching elevator. 12/24/1986

United Grain Growers 6503 acq. 11/1983 (ex CP 6503) S3 660 hp MLW #77638 5/1951
Vancouver February 1989 Mark Forseille

Preserved at WCRA's Heritage Park in Squamish. Credit: Dave Stewart-Candy August 10, 2015

Western Canada Steel
Twigg Island, Richmond.

6574 acq. 7/31/1972 (ex CP 6574) S-3 MLW 82160 4/1957
Two photos: 9/29/1987

6583 acq. 2/17/1986 (ex CP 6583) S-3 MLW 82169 6/1957

Alberta

Canadian Railserve

Small locomotive leaser

CRLX 8013 acq 2/1997 ex CP 8013 MLW RS-23 1000 hp 60 mph 91 tons MLW 82476 8/1959
TransAlta Sundance coal-fired power plant. Wabamun, AB July 26, 2000 Fred Clark

Sold 8/2002 OSR 506

First of six lightweight RS-23 units especially built for CPR use on lightweight CNR branchline in northern Saskatchewan.

Canadian Fertilizer
Medicine Hat

CFTX 6706 acq. 1/1990 ex CP 6706 SW8 GMD A234 6/1951 April 1, 2010 Jesse Acorn

Acq. 9/1976 (ex CP 6531 sold 9/21/1976 Can Pac Leasing) MLW 81076 2/1955
Sold 12/1991 IPSCO 7 Regina.

Canterra Energy
Formerly, Aquitaine Petroleum
Acquitane Co. of Canada Ltd.
Ram River

Penvidic Contracting 2034 became Canterra 2034 nee CP 19.

Viterra

1553 (acq. 10/2015) ex CP 1553 r/b 8/1983 nee 8623 GP9u GMD A1109 2/1957
Enroute to a new high-throughput concrete elevator near Grimshaw. (Peace River region)
Storage capacity of 30,000 tonnes and be capable of loading a 104 car train.
All of the grain sourced through Grimshaw will be exported, either through Prince Rupert or the Port of Vancouver.
Winnipeg 10/25/2015 Terry May

Saskatchewan

IPSCO
Inter-Provincial Pipe and Steel Corp. Ltd.
Regina

7 acq. 12/1991 (ex Cdn. Fertilizers nee CP 6531) S-3 MLW 81076 3/1955

6 acq. 10/1989 (ex CP 6714) SW900 GMD A674 3/1955

6195 IPSCO plant Regina. 7/18/2008

6195 hardly recognizable nee CP 6716. 7/18/2008

IPSCO Inc. 6195 acq. 8/2006 (ex CP 6195, nee 6716) SW900 GMD A676 3/1955 Roman Litarchuk

Kindersley

DLCX_1319 (acq. 2/2016, ex ILSX 1319, ex CP 1579 r/b Ogden 6/1984 nee 8634).
GP9u GMD A974 10/1956 Enroute at Joliet, IL 3/11/2016

Reford

LDCX 2005 acq. 4/1999 (ex CP 8110) GMD A1490 8/1958 Reford. January 13, 2019 Matt Watson

Manitoba

Gerdau Ameristeel

Gerdau Ameristeel 70208 remote controlled (ex 1 nee CP 6719 acq. 1/1994) SW900 GMD A679 4/1955
Selkirk, MB November 20/2010 Jeff Keddy

HudBay

CP 1274 became HBM 1274 acq. 6/1998 AAM (D) nee CP 8126 r/b Weston 5/1985

GMTX 509 lease unit enroute Hudbay Minerals (formerly, Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting) Flin Flon, MB
Winnipeg 7/27/2013 ex CP 1271 nee 8125 GMD A1505 10/1958

RTEX 8153 (ex CP 8153) GMD A1899 8/1960

RTEX 8161 enroute to Hudbay Mining, Flin Flon, MB, CSX Terrant City, AL 10/04/2005
GMD A1907 9/1960

Louis Dreyfus

LDCX 2003 acq. 8/1998 (ex CP 1243 nee 8157) SW1200RS GMD A1903 8/1960 Virden, MB

Paterson Grain

Paterson Grain 6052 acq. 1/2015 (ex CP 6052) SD40-2 GMD A4315 8/1983
Lilyfield, Winnipeg. September 2015

Simplot Chemicals

Brandon

Simplot 2504 ex CP 6571 S-3 MLW 81672 3/1957

Note: Last 660 HP unit overhauled 12/31/1980.

Simplot 6521 (ex CP 6521) MLW S-3 660 HP

CPR sold (5/01/1985) three retired S3's 6521, 6556 (scrapped c.6/1989) and 6571.

Viterra Inc.

Formerly, Agricore
Former Lethbridge Inland Terminal, Lethbridge.

1553 (acq. 10/2015 MVPX 1553) ex CP 1553 r/b 8/1983 nee 8623 GP9u GMD A1109 2/1957
Enroute to a new high-throughput concrete elevator near Grimshaw. (Peace River region)
Storage capacity of 30,000 tonnes and be capable of loading a 104 car train.
All of the grain sourced through Grimshaw will be exported, either through Prince Rupert or the Port of Vancouver.
Winnipeg 10/25/2015 Terry May

Ontario

Atlas Steels

Welland

9 (1st) acq. c.198? (ex CP ? ) MLW S3 6/24/1988 Dick Knoll

Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd.

Cambridge, (Galt).

17 acq. 8/1974 (ex CP 17 ) DT-2 44 ton 500 hp diesel-hydraulic CLC #3002 4/1959 July 1975 L.B.Chapman

B&W V90 (ex CP 17) June 1980 L.B.Chapman

Courtaulds Canada Ltd.

Cornwall

Courtaulds 7096 not repainted. S-2 Alco 76939 8/1949 One of three (7096-7098) Alco units USA owned.
Acq. 2/1984 IREX 7096 (Industrial Railway Equipment = US subsidiary Andrew Merrilees Ltd.)
Note that CPR had modernized unit with roller bearing trucks off S-3.
Cornwall February 24, 1987 Fred Clark

Great Lakes Paper

Thunder Bay

231 (ex CP 12) acq. 7/1974 CLC D-T-C 500 hp #2990 1/1958 Thunder Bay March 8, 1975
Ken Annett/Bruce Chapman Collection

Note: HS-18 was acquired 1/1975 for parts.

INCO

Sudbury

INCO 204 acq. 6/13/1986 ex CPR 7091 r/b wheels S-2 MLW 75866 3/1949

Ingredion Canada Inc.

Prior to October 1, 2012; CASCO,
previously (1984) Canada Starch Co. Ltd.

Cardinal, ON

HLCX 1445 acq. 2014 MP15AC EMD 787150-1 7/1978 Cardinal, Ontario. Oliver Mc.Kee

This was new as plant switcher EMD 116, in 7/1978. In 8/1981 sold to Mobil Oil, Beaumont, TX re# 963
sold by them in 8/1996 to NREX 963 (leased briefly to KCS), sold 10/2003 to CP, shipped as NREX 963
to Ogden 4/2004 in service as CP 1445, retired from the roster 5/2013, sold 8/2013 to HELM, shipped to
MEI, E. St Louis, relettered HLCX 1445. Came north on a short term lease to Invista at Maitland ON;
then went to Ingredion at Cardinal (formerly CASCO) after their GMD-1 blew up. Bruce Mercer.

Kimberly-Clark of Canada

Terrace Bay

6546 (Ex CPR 6546) leased 10/1978 acq. 6/1979. MLW #81202 8/1955

Note: Crankshaft damaged and unit exchanged for 6539 c.8/1983.

Marathon Paper Mills

Later, American Can of Canada,
then, James River Marathon
Formerly, Marathon Corp. of Canada

Marathon, Ont.

No number, unique one-of-a-kind unit built in 1937 by NSC and powered by a Harland & Wolff diesel.
Ex CPR 7000 acq. 11/1944. Re-engined 1951 with Caterpillar diesel.
Marathon, 1950. Marathon and District Historical Society

Note: Unit has been preserved and is at Exporail.

American Can of Canada Ltd. #NIL

Acquired new by Marathon Corp. 28-120 MLW S-13 M3435-01 2/1966

17-101, (Ex Marathon Corp. 28-120) MLW S-13 M3435-01 2/1966
Marathon, September 1999

Sold 2004 Trillium 101

17-102 (acq.6/1986) sits by huge pile of woodchips. (ex CP 7024) S-2 Alco #72859 10/1944
August 6, 1991 Bill Sanderson

Note the two styles of trucks. The front one is an original Blunt truck and must be a spare since the CPR
had already modified 7024 with newer style trucks off a retired MLW S-3 before selling it to Marathon.

Sold 2004 Trillium 7024

National Research Council

Uplands (Ottawa)

6593 acq. 11/1986 (ex CP 6593) S-3 660 hp MLW 82179 8/1957 Recently acquired and repainted.
Uplands 9/18/1987 Fred Clark Note: Acquired 7/2012 by SOLRS/Waterloo Central. WCR 6593

Nelson Aggregates
Formerly, Limestone Quarries.

Uhthoff

SF-1 (officially 3-6908) acq. 7/1978 (ex CP 6534) MLW S3 #81079 3/1955.
Numbered SF-1 by CPR for Steve Farkas, Limestone Quarries manager!

Note unique low clearance cab, modified by CPR at John Street Roundhouse, Toronto.

Uhthoff, July 2/1979. Gord Strathdee

Point Anne Quarry

Point Anne
(Bay of Quinte)

Point Anne Quarry 20004 acq. July 4/1975 (ex CP 6543) S-3 MLW 81199 8/1955

Quebec

Holcim (Canada) Inc. CSLX 100 (nee CP 6622) S-11 MLW #82564 7/1959 fresh out of CAD in Montreal 5/04/2014
Richard Marchi

Holcim Ltd. Z100 (formerly, Ciment St-Laurent, Ciment Independant)
S-11 MLW #82564 7/1959 (acq. 6/1977 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

New Brunswick

Weyerhaeuser Canada
(formerly, Eagle Forest Products)

8033 (Acq. 12/1996 ex CP 8033) RS-23 1000 HP MLW #83295 3/1960

Nova Scotia

NIL

Newfoundland and Labrador

NIL

USA

Progress Rail 8147 acq. 4/1999 Alliance, NE GMD A1893 7/1960