Part 2 of my few days back in British Columbia Canada around Kamloops.
This time I caught Central Maine & Quebec units 9021 and 9023 GMD SD40-2F.
These are a 3,000 horsepower (2,200 kW) diesel locomotive built by General Motors Diesel. It was fundamentally an SD40-2 in a cowl unit full-width body. A total of 25 units were built solely for the Canadian Pacific Railway. They were delivered in 1988 and 1989, after the end of production for the regular SD40-2. The engines were CP's only cowl units, and had been nicknamed "Red Barns" by railfans.
Retired in 2013, 10 units were purchased by the CMQ railway in Quebec and painted in the colors you see here.
CP recently bought the entire railway from CMQ and is running these units and another 2 ES44ac units for the time being.
We also go to Ashcroft BC and you get to see the storage tracks and mining operation for red shale.
NOTE: The CN interchange at the Ashcroft terminal is under construction so CN at the time of filming does not have access but they will by the end of the year.
22 окт 2020
