03-10-2011, 06:01 PM
Over the course of a week or so, I was able to capture several images of that diesel. It seems they used her for just about anything. I caught her on a transfer run out of the South Dunn Yards:
![[Image: Andrewslocomotive007.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/locomotives/Andrewslocomotive007.jpg)
And on the same train later in the morning as it approached South Cayuga:
![[Image: Andrewslocomotive010.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/locomotives/Andrewslocomotive010.jpg)
On another day, she was leaving Lowbanks with interchange traffic off the TH&B, doubleheaded with one of the Northshore's dirty old Mikes:
![[Image: Somefreshphotos017.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/locomotives/Somefreshphotos017.jpg)
The following day, I caught her solo on an eastbound, seen here approaching Indian Line:
![[Image: Andrewslocomotive021.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/locomotives/Andrewslocomotive021.jpg)
...and again as she crossed Chippawa Creek:
![[Image: Andrewslocomotive020.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/locomotives/Andrewslocomotive020.jpg)
This view, at Elfrida, is of the same coal train Andrew saw on the Maitland River bridge:
![[Image: Somefreshphotos034.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/locomotives/Somefreshphotos034.jpg)
They even had her working the warehouse track at GERN, in Port Maitland:
![[Image: Andrewslocomotive005.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/locomotives/Andrewslocomotive005.jpg)
I got a few views at the Lowbanks shop and turntable, too, but I like this one of her resting (finally) on the north main near the Lowbanks station:
![[Image: Andrewslocomotive054.jpg]](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/doctorwayne/locomotives/Andrewslocomotive054.jpg)
Talk is that all this was set-up and run-in testing, under contract from the CNR. There was an Alco technician on hand and also a representative from Montreal Locomotive Works, and a couple of big shots from CN and the EG&E (owners of the Northshore). That cab must've been pretty crowded, as the head-end brakeman was there, too, along with, for some reason, a fireman. I can't see that job lasting too long.
Sure is a good-lookin' loco, 'though I was kinda surprised by the amount of smoke she makes, 'specially when startin'. Still, a darn sight cleaner'n those stinky old steamers.
Wayne
And on the same train later in the morning as it approached South Cayuga:
On another day, she was leaving Lowbanks with interchange traffic off the TH&B, doubleheaded with one of the Northshore's dirty old Mikes:
The following day, I caught her solo on an eastbound, seen here approaching Indian Line:
...and again as she crossed Chippawa Creek:
This view, at Elfrida, is of the same coal train Andrew saw on the Maitland River bridge:
They even had her working the warehouse track at GERN, in Port Maitland:
I got a few views at the Lowbanks shop and turntable, too, but I like this one of her resting (finally) on the north main near the Lowbanks station:
Talk is that all this was set-up and run-in testing, under contract from the CNR. There was an Alco technician on hand and also a representative from Montreal Locomotive Works, and a couple of big shots from CN and the EG&E (owners of the Northshore). That cab must've been pretty crowded, as the head-end brakeman was there, too, along with, for some reason, a fireman. I can't see that job lasting too long.
Sure is a good-lookin' loco, 'though I was kinda surprised by the amount of smoke she makes, 'specially when startin'. Still, a darn sight cleaner'n those stinky old steamers.
Wayne
