Canadian Railroads > A sign of the times - or - back to the nineties?

Would love to be a fly on the wall at CP Headquarters when motive power strategy is discussed. CP has returned to the rent-a-wreck era, collecting the continent's cast-off SD40-2's as traffic builds. Or maybe they just admired the pre-recession CSX.

It was a busy day on the Galt Sub today, here are two from Royal York - westbound 243 and eastbound 2-140.

Paul

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Those rent-a-wreaks look to be in better shape than the SOO and CP leaders.

Big CP has taken all of the ICE 6400 series and the better CITX units leaving the DME to work with complete junk NREX and DME power. Had a NREX unit the other day with a plywood floor with holes that you could look down to the traction motors and track, really awesome to have in the snow and negative temperatures.

jkchubbes Wrote:
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> Big CP has taken all of the ICE 6400 series and
> the better CITX units leaving the DME to work with
> complete junk NREX and DME power. Had a NREX unit
> the other day with a plywood floor with holes that
> you could look down to the traction motors and
> track, really awesome to have in the snow and
> negative temperatures.

Can't you refuse to take that power? I would think that would be a major safety issue.

Well, seems just recently they couldn't get rid of them fast enough and let the ones they had go bad?, or am I mistaken. I guess 100 years plus and they didn't know they are in a cyclical business.

Bob

robj Wrote:
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> Well, seems just recently they couldn't get rid of
> them fast enough and let the ones they had go
> bad?, or am I mistaken. I guess 100 years plus
> and they didn't know they are in a cyclical
> business.
>
> Bob


Bob, the railroads can't plan 24 hrs in advance, let alone a year or two down the road.