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Caption: When CP completed its takeover of the CMQ last week, the last place one would have expected to see the CMQ's ex-CP barns was on Montreal-Saratoga Springs train CP 252 (which normally runs with PTC-equipped leaders), yet CMQ 9023 and CMQ 9022 were the sole power on CP 252 yesterday. Here they are returning to Montreal on a late CP 253, with 134 cars on the drawbar as they approach the Ste-Catherine commuter station at a slow rate of speed. Earlier they had told the RTC that they couldn't go past 27 mph, as well, they were told to slow down even more as a boat was passing through the St. Lawrence Seaway and CP's bridge over it was raised.
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Let’s see how far these roam and for how long..cross your fingers.
GEM !!!! Send a couple to the GALT sub!!!
Will they be repainting them or keeping the CMQ scheme? I hope the latter!
Or how many are they actually going to keep? They’re not exactly modern CP material.
Two are enroute on 143 to Toronto now. Should arrive around 10 am. What happens from there is unknown cause they are terminating there apparently.
@SCH: I heard this too…imagine them on 143 on the Ham Sub.
Wonder why the normal runs would need PTC?
@ngineered4u, most of CP 252 and CP 253′s runs are in the U.S., on the old D&H to and from Saratoga Springs.
Awesome. I figured that there had to be some US operations in there some place.
Thanks for the information.
They made it to Toronto! Amazing. terminated there.
Hey Steven, they went past Toronto.
I am at the diamond where the Newmarket sub crosses the North Toronto Sub and those units went west then north. They had only intermodal and auto traffic on the train. Maybe they terminated at Vaughn yard?
@Stephen C. Host, interesting that it wasn’t the exact same pair. 9-143 had 9020/9022, 253 had 9023/9022.
Wild Michael. 247 lifted the 9020/9022 today out of Lambton (Phil – they terminated there! 113 ahead of them went north!) Not sure where to next.