Canadian Railroads > Alcos on BC Rail - 2002

From back in 2002, caught these BC Rail Alcos in the yard at Fort St. John, British Columbia. Sure glad I made a few visits to BC before the CN took over.

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Well, sort of MLW, they are CRS-20, a RS18 rebuilt with a CAT engine. Doug

Next question, are you sure that is Fort St. John, I could swear it's Williams Lake except hiway 97 over pass is missing amongst other things. Not questioning your post, perhaps trying to nail down the location. Doug

I think I'm right on this one, but I'll have to dig out my slides. I scanned this months ago. This was taken on a charter train when we overnighted (?) in Fort St. John.

What happened to the CRS-20 units after CN took over?

to the best of my knowledge they were all scrapped. CN did not want to bother with the CAT engines. The RS18's were a good unit, the CRS20 was a good puller in the yard. Images taken April 2007 at Prince George, I was wondering how to load one of the cabs and take it home, make a garden shed or at least a real conversation piece. Doug

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hoggerdoug Wrote:
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> to the best of my knowledge they were all
> scrapped. CN did not want to bother with the CAT
> engines. The RS18's were a good unit, the CRS20
> was a good puller in the yard. Images taken April
> 2007 at Prince George, I was wondering how to load
> one of the cabs and take it home, make a garden
> shed or at least a real conversation piece. Doug


Shoulda called Jason Schron ... he might have found room in his basement ....

Will MacKenzie
Dundas, ON

The 623 made it to the museum in Prince George. Pic was taken in June 2009...

Keith Robertson
Langley, BC

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A number of those units were also scrapped in Edmonton at the Railway Museum in the spring of 2007, with a couple 1400 series GMD-1's, and a couple SD40-2W's. Such a sad sight!!