Canadian Railroads > Another Belle visits CP

CP 242-12 at Galt today with CP 6066-CP 6250-KCSM 4655. This is the second appearance of a Belle (third of a KCS/KCSM unit) on CP in Ontario in 2014. It's ugly and cloudy, but if the sun was out it would have been worse.

Bill Miller
Galt, ON



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/14 15:13 by CCMF.

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Talk about ugly.......how about the paint condition of the lead unit?

KG

Got her in Rosedale...

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Paint is beat on CP 6066, but it's interesting as it is one of only 4 units (excluding the ex-NS blanked cab high-noses) painted in flags that never had "CP" on the nose (because they were remote control units at the time).

Bill Miller
Galt, ON



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/14 18:01 by CCMF.

The paint may look like crap, but the unit is clean. Shows that somebody cares, somewhere.

CCMF Wrote:
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> Paint is beat on CP 6066, but it's interesting as
> it is one of only 4 units (excluding the ex-NS
> blanked cab high-noses) painted in flags that
> never had "CP" on the nose (because they were
> remote control units at the time).

Employees called them "scuds" (after the Soviet missiles used in the Gulf War). They were SD40-2's that had been converted to trailing units only by removing the seats and safety glass (placing plywood in the window frames) Some were just that, and others were adapted to handle the Locotrol 2 receiver equipment for use as mid-train remotes. This equipment was too bulky to fit in the nose of an SD40-2, so the cab interior was stripped and the receiver equipment placed on the floor. Neither modifications involved removing the control stand. Many did retain dead man pedals because they were not intended to be used as leaders.

Of course, the inevitable happened, and following a lead unit failure, a "scud" got to lead over part of a sub-division.