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Caption: Fooled!!! Thinking I had plenty of time to catch the transfers this day, I arrived just as the Conrail set was acting on their green signal and heading Stateside. So jumped out and grabbed this shot under the Central Av bridge. The train is seen coming off the old connection to the former CN Dunnville sub that ran along the south/west side of the Diesel Shops and roundhouse. Power is CR 8907 and 9992, an RS3M from the 9960-9999 series. The leader has me puzzled. Thinking it is an NW2, I look in the only CR roster list I have from 1982 and 8907 is listed as an SW7. Supposing the original 8907 was a former Peoria & Eastern then retired and a "new" 8907 took its place? Don't have a P&E roster, but I'll go with that. Anyway, quite the unusual combination, even for Fort Erie.
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The Diesel Spotter’s Guide states that the primary external difference between a NW2 verses SW7 is the half length radiator grille verses a full length rad grille on a SW7. And roller bearing trucks.
Either way great capture: an ALCO built RS-3 in Canada!
And those bi-levels: open air with what appears to be Chevy Trackers – seem to small to be Jeeps ? Built in ? Ontario? Really neat.
Awesome photo Mr. Mooney!
Neat shot Arnold, especially that leader. According to a post somewhere on the internets, this CR unit would have been ex-PE 8907:2 which is indeed an NW2, (built as IHB 8715, an NW2, b/n 6422 blt 1/48). It’s supposedly a replacement sent to PE when the original SW7 8907 got wacked in ’66.
The RS3M “Dewitt Geep” isn’t too shabby either, one of a bunch repowered with EMD 567′s from retired E-units at the Dewitt Shops.
I’m assuming all of those rebuilt RS3Ms received the fresh new Conrail paint job as well.
You always seemed to find interesting things in Fort Erie.
Interesting that in Canada, most 1st generation Switchers with MU had ‘road’ trucks whether GMDs with flexicoil, MLWs with AAR type B, or MLW lightweights rather… than AAR type A as on 8907.
Does the repowering of the RS-3 mean that it’s 1200 hp now?