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Caption: Southbound train passing the station in Parry Sound looks good with this combination of CP 5952, KCC (Kennecott Copper Corporation) 104 and CP 4563. It is a shame it is dull and raining, but I guess it serves me right for being overly optimistic on a Friday the 13th. :o) The trip to Parry this time around was solely to bag a KCC unit and it was great to be successful. KCC is based in Utah. Ore hauling operations were shut down on the 30th of June, 1984, and their series of 101-107 SD40-2 units became expendable. All were removed from service July 1, 1984. CP entered lease agreement for them, 30 day increments, some time in 1985. Stored at Winnipeg until summer of 1986, and then, I am only guessing here, worked the system for a 30 day period. I never saw any of them again after this particular trip. Last I heard of KCC 104, it was HLCX 6207 as of 1997. Others of the series also became part of HLCX. Mid to late 1980s was a fascinating time for leasers on the CP.
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KCCX 104 became BCOL 739, thence HLCX 6207. She stuck around in the Great White North for a few years longer.
Nice catch Arnold… must have been nice when you had that kind of access around the station, eh?
No kidding. Mike, you don’t know the half of it. Not only was I treated with the run of the place, such as perching on the rocks opposite the station and crossing track at will, I got to know most of the personnel, sat in the station and yakked between trains, received time-tables and flimsies, and even one day the agent walked me to the north end of the building, put up a step-ladder, ripped the namesign off the building and gave it to me to take home. Days like those are long gone, replaced with the modern day theme of paranoia. I still have my sign, a fond reminder of the carefree days of the past.
Great train Arnold. An interesting tale in the description too.