Hudson Bay

Brief history

Winter 1976 Gallery

VIA Winter 1994

Arctic Gateway Group

Took over 627 miles in 2018.

OneNorth Indigenous and local partners.

Ownership of Arctic Gateway Group transferred March 11, 2021
to OneNorth including Port of Churchill and Churchill Marine Tank Farm.
AGT Foods and Ingredients and Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings
held 50% of Arctic Group until this time.

OmniTRAX Operating 810 miles of former CNR track effective August 20, 1997.
Closed operations in 2017 due to major track weather damage.
First train (Arctic Gateway) returned to Churchill October 31, 2018.

Aerial view Port of Churchill

Aerial view of Churchill station

HBRY 6000 (ex UP 2262, nee 6107) SD60M EMD 886010-23 1/1989

Metro East Industries, East St.Louis, IL 3/01/2022 Mark Mautner

Note: First of 12 ex UP GMD SD60M units acquired through MEI and Southern Locomotive & Railcar.

OmniTRAX Gallery

Note: Various units acquired by Arctic Group others off roster to other OmniTRAX roads.

OMLX 824 acq. 8/1998 (ex VW 824 ex MP 1279 nee T&P 1279) SW1200 EMD #31237 2/1966
HBR HQ The Pas 7/20/2006 Bill Hooper

OMLX 1701 GP9 EMD 15475 3/1952 nee GP7 NYC 5701.
Northern Ohio and Western. Tiffin, OH 10/11/2004

OMLX 2000 GP38-2 EMD 776065-3 5/1977 nee ITC 2003.

With 1299 ex "CP" 1299 both Fulton County RR power. Campbellton, GA 3/2006

Note: 1299 has a long history and was never actually owned by CP!

2502 ex NWPR, SP 6595 GP35 EMD 29569 6/1964
Enroute to Central Kansas, Cicero, IL 7/19/2000 Dave Eagen

Note: Central Kansas Ry. operated 900 miles of mostly ex AT&SF.
Sold June 29/2001 to Watco which created Kansas & Oklahoma.

CKRY Roster: HBRY 2500, 2505, 2506, 2507 2509 GP7 acq. 3/1999
2502 GP35 acq. 7/1999 2503 acq. 4/1999
2504 GP35 2508 GP30 acq./12/1998

CKRY 2505 GP20E EMD 26949 1/1962 Salinas, KS 7/30/1999

SSW GP20 816 > SSW 4046 [1965] > GP20E SSW 4135 [12Jul74] > OmniTRAX Leasing, Ltd. (D) [15Feb95 or 28Apr95] > OmniTRAX/HBRY 2505 [Apr97] > OmniTRAX/CKRY 2505 [Jul99] > OmniTRAX/FCR 2002 [Oct04] > OmniTRAX/ATN 2002 [2013-2014] > J&L Consulting (D) [Oct14] as JLCX 2002 > Sterling Rail, Inc. (D) [2015?] >
SLAL 2002 <Oct 2021> Randy Keller

FCR=Fulton County Ry. Atlanta, Georgia
ATN=Alabama & Tennessee River Ry.

SLAL=South Plains Lamesa RR

JLCX 2002 ex HBR 2505 GP20E EMD 26949 1/1962
Central Kansas Ry. Salina, KS 2/12/2015

CKRY 2506 (ex HBRY 2506) Ex SP 4120 GP20R (r/b 2/1978) GP20 EMD 5634-17 3/1962 Ex SP 4006/7216
Fort Collins, Colorado 1/23/2012

Subsequent owner; JLCX 2506, CRLX 2000. See below:

CRLX 2000 r/b GP18 (also, 2001 slug ex WAMX 2005 ex GP20 ATSF 3049)
Kansas City, MO 10/01/2020

2509 (nee SLSF 516) GP7 EMD 10189 6/1950 The Pas September 2, 2009 Grant McVittie

ex Central Kansas 2511 still in HBR paint scheme. HBR 1997 - 4/1999 ex Mid South 1066 ex ICG 8227
GP10 1850 HP nee GP9 IC 9227 EMD 22292 1/1957 Donated 5/2001 Waynoka Historical Society.
10/20/2007 Waynoka,OK Michael Richmond

HBRY 2512 acq. 1997 (ex Georgia Woodllands 45, nee Chicago, West Pullman and Southern 45).
SW8 EMD 16827 11/1952 Retired 2002

Last OmniTRAX Alco! HBRY 3550 (ex CN 3550) M420 MLW M6081-21 5/1974
March 7, 2010 Grant McVittie

OMLX 3600 GP35 EMD 29705 12/1964 Denver, Colorado 5/14/2015 Bill Hedges

ex CKRY 2503, ex HBRY 2503, ex NWPR 6600 ex SP 6600 nee 7703

Great Western Railway of Colorado operates 80 miles of various lines.
HBRY 3600 leads freight coming off UP into North Yard, Fort Collins. 10/18/2012

HBRY 3600 (ex 2503) Fort Collins, CO 9/30/2011

HBRY 4201 one of two ex CN GP40-2's. GMD A3454 5/1976 ex CN 9659

OMLX 4201 at Kelim Jct. CO 1/24/2016

HBRY 5008 big power! One of ten SD50's acquired 2008 from NRE. EMD 847049-19 12/1985 nee CNW 7018
Ottawa, IL 10/10/10 Two photos Dan Grobe

Former HBRY 6526 GP38-3 (nee SP 7414 GP35) EMD 28468 12/1963
Transferred to Kettle Falls International. Now assigned to Great Western.
Photographed in Denver, CO 3/29/2011 Derek Brown

OMLX 9469 (ex CN) enroute Chicago Rail Link a new OmniTRAX shortline. Dixie, WI 9/11/2014
GP40-2L GMD A3047 7/1974

OMLX 9570 nee CN 9570 GP40-2 GMD A3205 4/1975
One of 4 GP40-2 units at HBRY later transferred out.

Subsequent owners . NOT . OmniTRAX related.

Great Western Railway of Iowa, LLC
d/b/a/ Council Bluffs Ry.

CBGR 2510 ex HBRY 2510 GP9R nee CNW 1637 GP7 EMD 5271-2 5/1953
IAIS shop track Council Bluff, IA 7/14/2006