Caption: Back before the CEFX GP20D invasion that brought some monotony to the fleet, early Geeps of various famed lineages called Hamilton home, some painted in an attractive blue-white-yellow livery and working out of Southern Ontario Railink (SOR)'s Stuart St. Yard.

This October evening finds GP7 1756 sitting on one of the shop tracks as GP18 1808 prepares to work an evening yard job, sorting cars for the various Hamilton industries about the yard. 1756 traces her lineage to the Detroit, Toledo & Shore Line, being built as their number 49 in April of 1952, and going on to work for Grand Trunk Western and Georgia Central as their 6049 prior to rebuilding for SOR. 1808 is a January 1960 unit that comes from the famed Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (the "Rock Island"), where she hung out with some of the other CRIPs as their 1334. Careers on the Central Vermont and Georgia Central as 3614 then followed before C&F Locomotive chopped her nose like 1756, and sent her to SOR in the late 90's.

Fast forward to 2013: 1756, shown here with a bent frame after a yard accident, was cut up in October of 2008 with some other units. 1808 soldered on a few years later until retirement, when she was bought by dealer Sterling Rail along with 3 other SOR locos. While two of them were cut up, 1808 and fellow Geep 1755 (an ex-Conn, nee-Pennsy '9 from the class of '56) were sold to Cando Contracting in May of 2013, and currently reside in Utopia (near Barrie ON) awaiting reactivation for the next chapter in their lives.

More SOR Geeps:
Keepin' it real in Stelco: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=3109
A Saturday gang meet: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=2053
Crusin' around town: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=1217
Dashing through the snow, second fiddle: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=284