Caption: Get used to these GP15's - they are growing in popularity. The GP15's are coming to shortlines throughout North America and they are killing a lot of first generation EMD and Alco products as UP is basically retiring their GP15-1 fleet, and they are being sold through various dealers or lease outfits. The GP15 was built as a GP9 replacement in the late 70's / early 80's and it seems it took 40 years for this to happen for real :) What other Canadian outfits had GP15's?

These two are not from the UP though, they are former Conrail GP15-1's which went through LTEX eventually to the G&W Fold. And that orange paint? It's just one of the many LTEX paint schemes they have for lessors to choose from. This unit was scheduled to be painted in North Bay, but it missed the paint window when it was sent to the ONR, so after whatever repairs were made it was sent back to Oshawa be pressed into service. Thank the Lord, cause this orange sure is different.

Pictured is the Rail Synergy Oshawa job pulling out of the loading racks with a cut of cars for the CNR or CPRKC in Oshawa. They usually do two to three runs from here up the hill (heavy grades mean they can only take so much) then down to their respective yards. After finishing the autoracks, they head over to do the frames in the late afternoon, or so I am told. Do note while taking this photo the CPKC was in town lifting loaded autoracks from their yard - the G&W Boys would essentially follow CPKC across the bridge once they cleared to reverse into the depths of the oshawa yard tracks. It's great to see activity in Oshawa again after so many years. I'm looking forward to driving through again and dropping by to see what's going on - the Kingston sub is also very busy with tonnes of action - I'd get about 4-5 movements in an hour before leaving town.