Robin , your number is 8599 ???? This unit was scarp with Script paint
scheme in 80's.
http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208599.htm
8577 ran in Vancouver in 1980. Thit unit lived his final days on commuter
in Montreal. 8570 & 8577 were the two last RS10 units on active roster in
early 80 's. They were equipped with ditch lights.
http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208577.htm
paul trudel
From: "Robin Lowrie" <rlowrie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [cpsig] RS10's/RS18's in the West
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:04:00 -0700
somewhere, I have pix of RS10's on the Canadian in Calgary in the mid to late seventies.
one was still maroon & grey!
they seemed to work into Calgary from the east but, at that late date, never seemed to go west of there.
Robin Lowrie
Stony Plain, Alberta
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Johnston
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: [cpsig] RS10's/RS18's in the West
Hi Tim:
The RS10's and RS18's weren't unknown in the west.
In the mid 1950's there was a passenger/mail train that always had a pair of RS10's. It worked right through to Vancouver. I think the train numbers were either No. 5 and 6 or perhaps 13/14. As a small boy I was fascinated by these odd engines that to me seemed to be backwards after the hordes of GP9's I was accustomed to seeing.
In the summer of 1971 CP was very power short in the west so the group of RS18's between 8750 and 8765 were temporarily assigned to Alyth. In fact the 8758 met its demise in a wreck near Eholt B.C. on the Boundary Sub. I would think those RS18's would have been seen as far west as Coquitlam.
That same summer a few RS10's and even one RS3 ( the 8449) strayed west of Calgary.
In 1975 CP assigned a pair of RS10's, the 8586 and 8589 if I remember correctly to that year's Speno Rail Grinding train. In those days the host railroad provided the locomotives.
I'll bet others have memories of MLW roadswitchers in western Canada. Anybody?
Jim Johnston
Salmon Arm B.C.
----- Original Message -----
From: timbowilts
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:05 AM
Subject: [cpsig] RS10's/RS18's in the West
Gents, as a fan of MLW's products and modeller of CPR in the west I
have a question that the group might be able to answer. How far west is
an RS10 or an RS18 positively known (e.g. company records or eyeball
sighting) to have gotten?
TIA
Tim Tumber
