Roundnoses news in 2019
Australia
In August 2019 Southern Shorthaul Railroad bought CFL1, CFL3, CLP9 and CLP12 (all stored) from Genesee & Wyoming Australia.
In January 2019 Pacific National had its roundnoses A73, A77, A81 and A85 scrapped at Dynon, Melbourne.
In August 2019 Southern Shorthaul Railroad bought CFL1, CFL3, CLP9 and CLP12 (all stored) from Genesee & Wyoming Australia.
In January 2019 Pacific National had its roundnoses A73, A77, A81 and A85 scrapped at Dynon, Melbourne.
Hungary
Komplex Rail bought 3.629 from SkJb and was transported to Hungary in the end of 2019.
Komplex Rail bought 3.629 from SkJb and was transported to Hungary in the end of 2019.
USA and Canada
There are only two railroads left who operate roundnoses (cab units) in regular freight service in North America:
The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad’s 132-mile West Virginia Central in the United States. The shortline railroad regularly operates two EMD FP7As, a F7A, F7B, and a 1948-built BL2.
The cab units are assigned to freight and passenger excursions trains and operate as often as three times a week pulling revenue freight between the railroad’s interchange at Tygart Junction
and Elkins in West Virginia’s eastern mountains. Commodities include aggregates, salt, scrap metal, and other dry bulk commodities. In addition to cab units, the railroad has a growing fleet of
EMD GP9s that is has acquired from terminal and quarry operations in the tri-state region;
The Ontario Southland Railway serves freight customers on its more than 75-mile network in southern Ontario in Canada. With six different operations, the freight railroad continues to
regularly use three EMD FP9As and it has no intentions of sidelining the locomotives.
Source: TRAINS.
There are only two railroads left who operate roundnoses (cab units) in regular freight service in North America:
Source: TRAINS.
USA
A Lot of roundnoses are up for sale:
Former Milwaukee Road EMD F7A No. 96C (in Monon Railroad livery) and Milwaukee Road EMD F7B 68B have been put up for auction
by the city of Noblesville, Indiana, their current owner. They were part of the collection formerly held by the Indiana Transpiration Museum, which was evicted from its former home
in Noblesville last summer.
Florida’s Gold Coast Railroad Museum, which slims down its collection, has put two EMD cab units for sale: an E8 painted as Florida East Coast No. 1594 and an FP10 painted as
Seaboard Air Line No. 4033.
Iowa Pacific Holdings has put up for sale: F9PH 1101 and 1102 from the former Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay operation in California, E8A 807 and 808 from the Saratoga & North Creek operation;
BL2 Nos. 52 and 56 from the Saratoga & North Creek operation.
Source: TRAINS. The Keokuk Junction Railway's new owner Brookhaven Capital Partners decided to stop the use of F-units. On 7 August 2019 the last train with F-units (FP9A 1751 and F7B 1761) ran between Peoria and Good Hope. All other three F-units were already sidelined by then. Also Gettysburg & Northern halted its F-unit operations (with No. 402). Early 2019 'The Friends of the 261' acquired former Milwaukee Road E9A 101 wearing Wisconsin & Southern colors. It is now operational again and will be painted a variation of Milwaukee Road’s orange and maroon passenger train color. In the end of 2019 Norfolk Southern sold its 4 F9 locos. F9A 270 and F7B 275 were sold to Pennsylvania's Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad for excursion trains. The railroad operates special trains over much of its 350-mile system throughout the year, using freight locomotives and its large collection of passenger cars. F9A 271 and F7B 276 were sold to North Carolina’s Aberdeen Carolina & Western, a 150-mile short line that runs on original Norfolk Southern Railway trackage between Charlotte and Aberdeen, N.C. The latter two will pull the Economic Development/Corporate Train as from July 2020 in a magenta and gold paint scheme. The Texas State Railroad made FP9 125 (ex-CN 6521) operational and gave it a silver/red/white Katy paint scheme. It also owns FP9 126 (ex-CN 6533).
Source: TRAINS. The Keokuk Junction Railway's new owner Brookhaven Capital Partners decided to stop the use of F-units. On 7 August 2019 the last train with F-units (FP9A 1751 and F7B 1761) ran between Peoria and Good Hope. All other three F-units were already sidelined by then. Also Gettysburg & Northern halted its F-unit operations (with No. 402). Early 2019 'The Friends of the 261' acquired former Milwaukee Road E9A 101 wearing Wisconsin & Southern colors. It is now operational again and will be painted a variation of Milwaukee Road’s orange and maroon passenger train color. In the end of 2019 Norfolk Southern sold its 4 F9 locos. F9A 270 and F7B 275 were sold to Pennsylvania's Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad for excursion trains. The railroad operates special trains over much of its 350-mile system throughout the year, using freight locomotives and its large collection of passenger cars. F9A 271 and F7B 276 were sold to North Carolina’s Aberdeen Carolina & Western, a 150-mile short line that runs on original Norfolk Southern Railway trackage between Charlotte and Aberdeen, N.C. The latter two will pull the Economic Development/Corporate Train as from July 2020 in a magenta and gold paint scheme. The Texas State Railroad made FP9 125 (ex-CN 6521) operational and gave it a silver/red/white Katy paint scheme. It also owns FP9 126 (ex-CN 6533).
Roundnoses news in 2018
Australia
In August 2018 Aurizon 42103 was painted in the classic Candy livery scheme (red/yellow/orange/white from top to bottom).
In January 2018 Pickles Auctions Pty Ltd
put up CFCL Australia's bulldogs S300 and S311 for auction. You could have responded until 1 March 2018.
Denmark
The last roundnose built for Denmark (MY 1159, owned by the Danish railway museum) was sold to someone in Denmark.
Germany
In Spring 2018 Cargo Logistik Rail-Service bought MY 1142 from Braunschweiger Bahn Service.
In 2018 NEG bought MY 1148 (NoHAB 2599, 1964, ex-DSB MY 1148) from Scandic Rail Partners ApS (SRP). This former EuroRail Laising MY 1148 locomotive carried a NVAG red livery with white
NVAG stripes, but was painted in classical brown DSB livery in June 2009. The locomotive is currently used by Captrain in Denmark.
Sweden
In January 2018 Tågab promised to hand over Tågab TMY 101 (ex-DSB MY 1121) to Sveriges Järnvägsmuseum when it will take her out of service.
For now, it is still in use for Tågab freight trains.
USA
Six Connecticut Department of Transportation Electro-Motive FL9 locomotives, stored out of service since 2009 and still in their original
red, white, and black New Haven “McGinnis” color scheme, have found new homes from New England
to Texas. The new owners include the Boston Surface Railroad Co. of Woonsocket, R.I. (2027); Massachusetts Coastal Railroad, headquartered in East Wareham, Mass. (2011 and 2026);
Webb Rail LLC, in partnership with the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum of Lenox, Mass. (2024); and the Grapevine Vintage Railroad of Grapevine, Texas (2014 and 2016).
All plan to restore their new acquisitions to running condition. Source: TRAINS.
The Monticello Railway Museum operates with amongst other locomotive types Wabash F7-A 1189 and Canadian National
(ex-VIA) Alco FPA-4 6789 and booster FPB-4 6862 between the Nelson Crossing Depot at the museum
north of Monticello and the Wabash Depot in downtown Monticello. Locked inside a building is PRR 5764 E8A, which will emerge as Illinois Central painted (chocolate brown and orange) 4044 in
November 2018. Source: TRAINS.
Indiana Transportation Museum in Noblesville repainted former Milwaukee Road F7 83A in a scheme derived from the Electro-Motive Division blue-and-white
demonstrator scheme worn by F7s in 1949 while on the Nickel Plate Railroad. The museum will probably move to another location in Logansport. Nickel Plate Heritage Railroad will operate
excursion trains with the locomotive. Source: TRAINS.
In February 2018 Tom Myles owned FP7 1306 (ex-CP) left the work shop as pennsylvania Railroad 9880 and will be used on the Stourbridge Line tourist
line operated by the Delaware, Lackawaxen & Stourbridge Railroad. Another FP7 and a B-unit are slated to be overhauled and repainted. Source: TRAINS.
Roundnoses news in 2017
Australia
Qube uses B76 and S313 for its 9187 Melbourne - Birchip (Mildura Line) grain trains.
Continental Rail Leasing B75 and Seymour Rail Heritage Centre S303 are used by Qube to power the Tocumwal freight trains (train number 9375 is used for the trains toward Tocumwal).
V/Line A66 is the only bulldog nose still hauling regular passenger trains in Australia (and is actually the last one to haul regular public passenger trains in the world). On weekdays it hauls the 16:04 Melbourne - Bacchus Marsh passenger train and the 07:39
return working from Bacchus Marsh.
Of GWA's bulldog nose fleet, only CLF5, CLP14, CLP16, CLP17, GM37 and GM43 are in operating condition and hauling freight trains.
Canada
CP 1401 (ex-VIA 6541) has been overhauled and received a new engine (16-645E). It is used for CP's business trains.
Denmark
Lokaltog M36 has been painted all over yellow in November 2017.
Since 6 January 2017 Altmark Rail V170 1155 (ex-DSB MY 1155) was used for CFL Cargo's cement train CG 6103 (Taulov-Padborg) in Denmark. The locomotive returned to Germany mid August 2017.
Germany
The major overhaul of Altmark Rail V170 1155 (ex-DSB MY 1155) was finished on 18 December 2016. It still carries the same red/brown with yellow stripes livery it got since August 2011.
MY 1155 returned to Denmark on 15 May 2017 to work CFL Cargo's cement train CG 6103 (Taulov-Padborg) in Denmark again.
Cargo Logistic Rail Service MY 1138 recently got an overhaul (REV date 26 June 2017) and Altmark Rail MY 1143 is currently undergoing a major overhaul. Erfurter Bahnservice MY 1131 will get a major overhaul as well and Braunschweiger Bahn Service MY 1142
is awaiting a decision for a major overhaul.
Hungary
Kárpát Vasút MY 1156 (459 022) got a pink Sziget 25 livery.
Kosovo
In the end of October 2017 Kosovo Railways reinstated the passenger train Pristina - Peja, which was run every third day by Di3 2640.003 (= ex-007):
Tuesday - Thursday with 2 ex-DB coaches, Friday - Monday with 3 ex-DB coaches:
Train IC760 Pec/Peja 05:32 - Kosovo Polje 07:21 - Pristina 07:32
Train TL4201 Pristina 07:50 - Kosovo Polje 08:01 - Pec/Peja 09:57
Train TL4200 Pec/Peja 12:10 - Kosovo Polje 13:59 - Pristina 14:10
Train 4401 Pristina 14:25 - Kosovo Polje 14:35
Train 4402 Kosovo Polje 16:00 - Pristina 16:10
Train IC761 Pristina 16:20 - Kosovo Polje 16:31 - Pec/Peja 18:16. However, in the end of 2017 2640.003 was put aside and will probably not be reactivated any more.
Train IC760 Pec/Peja 05:32 - Kosovo Polje 07:21 - Pristina 07:32
Train TL4201 Pristina 07:50 - Kosovo Polje 08:01 - Pec/Peja 09:57
Train TL4200 Pec/Peja 12:10 - Kosovo Polje 13:59 - Pristina 14:10
Train 4401 Pristina 14:25 - Kosovo Polje 14:35
Train 4402 Kosovo Polje 16:00 - Pristina 16:10
Train IC761 Pristina 16:20 - Kosovo Polje 16:31 - Pec/Peja 18:16. However, in the end of 2017 2640.003 was put aside and will probably not be reactivated any more.
Sweden
Railcare T's TMY 1122 (already in 2016) and TMY 1134 (recently) got a new grey/white/red horizontal stripe RailCare T livery. TMY 1134 is in use with CapTrain Demark.
In November 2017 Strukton Rail sold its TMY 9505 (ex-Tagab TMY 102, ex-DSB MY 1128) to Inlandsbanan AB.
USA
The Orlando & Northwestern Railway runs the Royal Palm Railway Experience tourist train with amongst others
Chesapeake & Ohio F3Au 8016, originally Clinchfield 800 and later CSX Transportation 116, built in February 1949. It has been painted in Clinchfield yellow and gray in the end of 2017.
The locomotive was acquired from the C&O Historical Society late 2017 and painted in its original Clinchfield colours by CSX for its 2017 Santa Train.
Reading & Northern stated in June 2017 that they will make two ex-Southern Railroad of New Jersey F7 units 250 and 251 operable. One wears New York, Ontario & Western gray-and-yellow, and the other carries a red, white, and black scheme.
The two will be repainted in a Rock Island-type scheme, with the same colors – red, black, and white, which coincidentally are those that are used in R&N’s “Road of Anthracite” logo.
It is envisaged to use the covered wagons to pull the railroad’s business trains.
Roundnoses news in 2016
Australia
CFCLA S300 and S311 are in storage at Goulburn workshops since September 2016.
In December 2016 Continental Rail Leasing B75 was outshopped in CRL yellow/red/black livery and is in use with Southern Shorthaul Railroad.
Since November 2016, GWA GM37 and GM43 are used to haul new rails trains from Port Augusta to work sites between Adelaide and Tarcoola 4-5 times per month for a period of two years.
Other GM Class locomotives have been put into storage. The CLF Class and CLP Class locomotives still run freight trains.
All A Class and S Class locomotives of Pacific National have been put into storage at South Dynon.
Twice a week GWA's CLF/CLP units (amongst others like the FQ Class) work an empty ore train on from Adelaide to Wirrada siding (80 km west of the Peculiar Knob Mine of Arrium) on the Adelaide - Darwin line to fetch iron ore from Wirrada to Whyalla Port. Subsequently, the empty train
returns to Adelaide.
SSR GM27 has been painted in the black/yellow stripe SSR livery (just like the S317 has).
SSR B61 is now in a special silver Streamliners 2016 livery.
Aurizon CLF7 has been scrapped.
Belgium
Unfortunately, TucRail (ex-NMBS) 5202, 5302, 5303, 5305, 5307, 5309, 5313, 5316 and 5401 were scrapped in March 2016.
Denmark
Midtjyske Jernbaner MY 28 was painted in orange/red/white livery, just like MX 26 mid 2016. Both were in use for DB Cargo trains from Taulov to Aarhus and from Kolding to Fredricia (Vamdrup freight trains), just as Contec Rail MY 1158 was.
The keeper of the MY 1148 is NEG and the locomotive is currently used by CapTrain in Denmark.
Early 2016, CFL Cargo Danmark stopped running the sliding door wagon trains between Padborg and Herning. This traffic from and to Germany now starts in Padborg.
In February 2016 CapTrain started a new six days a week intermodal freight train between Geleen DSM (NL) and Høje-Taastrup (DK). It leaves Padborg (DK) at 05:50 hours
and arrives at Høje-Taastrup at 10:30 hours on Tuesdays through Saturdays as train 41550. The return train 41551 leaves Høje-Taastrup at 18:30 hours on Mondays through Fridays and arrives at
Padborg (DK) at 22:30 hours. As well as CapTrain roundnoses as MZ locomotives are used as traction for these trains. However, this train stopped running mid 2016.
Since DB Cargo Scandinavia took over the freight trains to Rønland mid December 2016, the roundnoses of Midtjyske Jernbaner don't have scheduled work any more. Sometimes they are hired to DB Cargo Scandinavia to
haul the weekly container trains between Aalborg and Skagen.
France
In February 2016 the Somei owned 5215 (in CFL red/yellow livery and numbered CFB 1605) and 5217 (in NMBS light blue/yellow livery, numbered P 5217) were transfered to Nîmes in France
to serve as shunting locomotives at an LGV construction base. They both still have their modern cabs in place.
Hungary
In February 2016, Di3.623 which was bought by the NoHAB Foundation in Hungary was moved from its previous owner Tagab in Sweden to Hungary.
The locomotive got one cabine burned out after an accident in Fagelsjö on 5 April 2014.
Sweden
On 1 January 2016 Railcare and Three T merged into Railcare T, which is a rail infrastructure contractor and provision of locomotives, staff and freight cars.
Workshops are in Langsele and Skelleftehamn. Railcare T owns 10 roundnoses.
USA
The Thunder Mountain Line Railroad, a tourist excursion that operated on the Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad in Idaho,
announced that it would cease operations. Thunder Mountain Line owners will decide later this year if the closure is permenant.
The Idaho Northern & Pacific will continue to operate freight on its 210 miles of former UP branches between Payette and Cascade in Idaho and La Grande and Elgin in northeastern Oregon.
The Stourbridge Line tourist line operated by the Delaware, Lackawaxen & Stourbridge Railroad acquired ex-Bessemer & Lake Erie F7A No. 725 in February 2016.
The unit was last used by Coe Rail on a dinner train in Michigan and is stored in Lansing, Mich. It currently wears a paint scheme similar to the Erie Lackawanna,
but railroad owner Tom Myles is asking for paint scheme suggestions via the railroad’s Facebook page. The railroad currently operates another rare EMD, ex-Bangor & Aroostock
BL2 No. 54. Source: TRAINS.
Roundnoses news in 2015
Australia
SSR S317 has been painted in a reverse SSR livery. It is black with a yellow stripe now, instead of yellow with a black stripe for the other SSR livered locomotives.
The non-operational GM1, owned by the Rail Heritage Western Australia, will soon move from the Islington Workshops in Adelaide to the Railway Museum in Bassendean in West Australia.
It is the intention of the museum to return the GM1 in operational condition.
Canada
In August 2015 Ontario Southland Railway revealed its latest paint scheme on former Canadian National FP9 6508. The short line acquired the locomotive in 2013 and restored it to operation for
freight service on its former Canadian Pacific routes connecting Woodstock, Ingersoll, St. Thomas, and Tillsonburg. The roundnose was in storage in Toronto for nearly 10 years after the end of service
on the Waterloo St Jacobs Railway in 2001. The railroad owns a further two roundnoses.
Germany
MY 1148 was repaired in Haldensleben and currently stands in Niebüll. It is only equipped with the Danish ATC train safety system.
Hungary/Sweden
In April 2015, Kárpát Vasút bought TMY 1156 (ex-DSB 1156) in DSB red/black livery from Tågab in Sweden. It was transported to Hungary in April 2015.
Kosovo
The 007 (2640 003) is the only operational roundnose in Kosovo at the moment (the 005 has an engine failure and the other two roundnoses are only to be used as spare part donors).
USA
Tourist Operator Wisconsin Great Northern bought F7 1950 and F7 1951 from the Columbia
Star Dinner Train in Missouri, which ceased its operations in 2014. These two locomotives carry the Wabash paint scheme. The company already owned two other F7s.
The Morristown & Erie Railway has announced that 2015 will be the final year for its Maine Eastern Railroad subsidiary’s freight and passenger excursion operations. There are no current plans for
the continuation of passenger excursion service along the Rockland Branch in 2016 by the succeeding operator. The remainder of the Maine Eastern’s 2015 excursion season will continue to operate as
scheduled, with Saturday and Sunday round-trips running throughout October. The final day for excursion service on the Rockland Branch will be Sunday, Oct. 31, 2015. Source: TRAINS.
The roundnoses FL9 488 and FL9 489 will be transfered to New Jersey for passenger operations of the Morristown & Erie Railway.
The Keokuk Junction Railway runs once a week pipe trains from LaHarpe, Illinois, to a truck trans-loading area at the Keokuk Junction Railway Twin Rivers Yard in Keokuk. This tyraffic is thought to last until
December 2015. In addition, Keokuk Junction Railway 1762, an F9B, which has been stored with mechanical issues since debuting in fresh paint on the company Santa Train in December of 2014, has returned to
service making for an A-B-A set again, which has appeared on the pipe trains (source: TRAINS). This is the only three lashup (and for that matter the longest) of roundnoses in the world used in commercial service.
The Hub City Heritage museum in Oelwein, Iowa, has restored its ex-Chicago Great Western FP7 116A to full operational status and painted it in the “dip” scheme, which debuted in 1954, with the entire body solid maroon,
the roof and running gear below the frame in black, and Chicago Great Western “Lucky Strike” logos on the nose and centered on the car body.
Larry's Truck Electric sold the two ex-CN/VIA FP9s, 6302 (ex-CN 6533) and 6308 (ex-CN 6521, ex-VIA 6521) to Iowa Pacific and the Texas State Railroad Authority.
Both wear a variation of the old Central of Georgia Railroad colors. They are stored in the Ohio Commerce Center, an industrial park in Lordstown, Ohio. In between a passenger car is placed as
customers meeting center of Larry's Truck Electric.
Iowa Pacific took over the lease of the Illinois Railway Museum owned E9A 103 (ex-UP957, ex-Amtrak 430, ex-Alaska Railroad 2401) from Wisconsin & Southern Railroad in August 2015. The locomotive is operational.
Iowa pacific bought E9A 91 (former MARC 91 in Burlington Northern livery) and E9A 102 (Wisconsin & Southern livery) from Wisconsin & Southern parent Watco in August 2015.
Roundnoses news in 2014
Australia
V/Line's scheduled bulldog passenger trains workings ceased on 27 April 2013. That makes Kosovo the only country in the world with scheduled passenger trains hauled by roundnoses (two are operational).
El Zorro ceased its operations in the beginning of June 2013. Reportedly, AWB assigned its grain haulage contract to PN National. PN National now also operates the freight trains
to Warrnambool and the mineral sands trains.
Aurizon has stabled most of its bulldogs in Goulburn and they have put them up for sale: CLF3 + CLP12 + 42103 + 42105 + CLP13 + CLF1 + CLF2 + CLP11 and CLP10 (CLP11 and CLP13 are painted in QR National yellow/black/maroone livery).
These bulldogs of Aurizon are not seen on the Sydney - Newcastle - Brisbane corridor anymore.
CLF4, CLF7 and CLP9 are still in use in Aurizon freight trains.
This is an update of the bulldog roundnose whereabouts in Australia per 31 December 2014:
Long time Port Pirie resident GM28 (wearing the identity of GM22) has been sold to the Seymour group and moved there
for restoration. Source: The Lubricated Flange, July 2012.
The following roundnoses are active in New South Wales:
GM10, GM22, GM27 and S317 (all in SSR livery and SSR owned) are active with work trains and intermodal trains between Port Botany and Kelso Bathurst (a.o. train 1845 to Kelso);
SSR B61 (in SSR livery) and S302 (in El Zorro livery) work wheat trains for Westons Mill between Cootamundra and Lithgow since early 2014.
CFCLA S300 (in CFCLA livery) used to be employed by El Zorro, but is now available for other work;
42103 (since 18 September 2008 in new QRN livery), 42105, 42107 and 42109 (all three in Interail livery; 42107 is QRN/SCT trip train loco between Yennora Industrial and Glenlee; 42109 is parked at Casino).
The CFCLA B65 (in a red with yellow livery with silver lines as advertisement for Auscision Models); currently on standard gauge bogies) is used for work trains.
Below you will find a wonderful picture of B65 made by Stewart Anderson in Bendigo on 30 October 2007.
At Goulburn Roundhouse (NSW) Rail Power GM19 (in AN green livery) is still awaiting a possible overhaul. Privately owned 42101 (in NSWGR livery, owned by James Gray) received a major overhaul
in the end of 2014 and is operational again.
In the states of Victoria, South Australia, West Australia and/or Northern Territory the following bulldog noses are to be found:
B76 (CFCLA silver/blue/yellow livery; CFCLA owned) and B80 (CFCLA silver/blue/yellow livery; CFCLA owned) are working work trains in and around Melbourne for Metro and have received special Metro decals.
Together with Steamrail S313 (in VR blue/gold livery) they are also currently used by QUBE to transport rice for Sunrice at Deniliquin. Empty container train 9071 runs daily from North Melbourne yard (departure around 05:25 hours) via Bendigo and Echuca (broad gauge passenger lines) to Deniliquin (arrival around 11:15 hours). The daily full container train 9072 with rice departs Deniliquin around 16:00 hours. CFCLA S311 is used by Qube on its Melbourne - Horsham container trains which have a 17:51 - 18:19 hours runthrough Gheringhap (depending on the day) on Monday-Thursday and at 20:30 hours (but normally runs on the times of the other days of the week) in the direction of Melbourne.
A60, A62, A66 and A70 (all but A66 in V/Line blue/red livery; A66 has been outshopped in V/Line red/yellow/grey with white stripe
livery in December 2009) are standing by on reserve, since they do not haul passenger trains any more. However, A66 still makes a roundtrip from Melbourne to Bacchus Marsh once or twice a month (preferably the Friday) and is
used for infrastructure trains.
A71, A73, A77, A78, A79, A81, A85 (in FA green livery) are used to haul broad gauge freight trains in Victoria:
- A71 is sometimes used as power for the 9552/9553/9556/9558 Pacific National Long Island steel trains between Westernport and Long Island, which even run on Saturdays.
- The 9305/9306 Tocumwal freight trains. The 9305 departs Melbourne Appleton Dock on Tuesday and Thursday at 18:50 hours and runs via Sunshine and Broadford (20:58 hours) to Tocumwal (arrival 01:00 hours the next day). The Sunday 9305 runs approximately half an hour later. Return working 9306 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday depart Tocumwal at 16:05 hours and runs via Broadford (19:53 hours) to Appleton Dock (arrival 21:45 hours). Sometimes, these trains run on other days of the week as well.
- The 9461/9462 Maryvale paper trains (6 times per week with a 9462 departure at 17:55 hours (Monday-Friday)/17:38 hours (Sunday) and arrival of 9461 around 06:00 hours from and to Melbourne).
- The 9141/9142 Maryborough grain container trains. The 9141 departs Melbourne West Tower Arrival Yard at 17:40 hours on Monday and Wednesday (via Bacchus Marsh 19:25 hours) and on Friday at 20:15 hours with return working 9142 departing Maryborough at 23:00 hours on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday and arrival at Melbourne Kensington at 06:00 hours). There is also a trip train on Monday and Thursday planned from Maryborough (d. 11:30/a. 17:45 hours) to Boort (a. 14:25/d. 15:00 hours).
- The 9080/9280 daily freight train services from Melbourne Tottenham Yard (d. 22:20/a. between 01:40 and 04:30 hours) to Piangil (a. 08:20/d. between 18:15 and 19:05 hours).
- The 9245/9246 Tuesday, Thursday and Friday cement trains from Somerton Cement Siding (9245 d. 02:00 hours) via North Geelong Yard (a. 03:45/d. 10:35 hours) to Waurn Pounds (a. 11:05 hours). Return working 9246 departs Waurn Ponds at 12:15 hours and arrives at North Geelong Yard at 12:45 hours
- The 9101/9102 container trains between Appleton Dock and Merbein. The 9101 departs Appleton Dock on Mondays at 10:35 hours and runs via Gheringhap (12:50/13:43), Ballarat (14:50/55) and Maryborough (16:17/22) to Merbein (arrival at 23:49 hours). The Appleton departure on Wednesday and Friday is at 20:15 hours and runs via Bacchus Marsh (21:44) to Merbein (arrival the next day at 08:00 hours). Return working 9102 has different time schedules on Sunday (Merbein departure 17:25 hours; arrival Appleton Dock the next day at 05:05 hours), Tuesday (Merbein departure 16:05 hours; arrival Appleton Dock the next day at 03:45 hours) and Thursday (Merbein departure 17:25 hours; arrival Appleton Dock the next day at 06:25 hours). There is also a Tuesday and Thursday trip train service 9148/9149 working between Merbein (departure 12:30 hours, arrival at 14:20 hours) and Mildura Cement Siding (13:10/13:40 hours).
- And sometimes the Monday-Friday operated 9340/9318 Apex quarry stone train (Westall Apex Siding departure of 9340 at 09:00 hours, Kilmore East Apex Quarry Siding arrival at 11:50 hours; return working 9318 departs at 13:50 hours and arrives at Brooklyn Hanson Siding at 15:25 hours. There is also a pair 9319/9430 (Monday-Thursday 9319 departure 19:50 from Brooklyn Hanson Siding; return 9430 Monday-Thursday departure at 22:20 hours from Kilmore East Apex Quarry Siding).
S301 (in FA green livery) and S306 (in PN blue/yellow livery) are stored at Dynon. S307 (in PN blue/yellow livery) is used by PN for banking duties
in the Adelaide hills.
The Victorian Division of the ARHS owns the S308, which resides at Newport.
GM32 (green), GM37 (GWA livery), GM38 (green), GM40 (green), GM42 (GWA livery), GM43 (GWA livery), GM44 (green), GM45 (GWA livery), GM46 (green) and GM47 (GWA livery) are hauling grain
trains in South Australia (Bowmans, Dimboola, Jamestown, Gladstone, Port Pirie, Tailem Bend, Lameroo, Snowtown) and between South Australia and Junee, Temora, Wolseley,
Melbourne Appleton Dock and Geelong Grain Loop, along with CLF 5 (which as the last CLF/CLP locomotives got a GWA orange livery in mid November 2007), CLF6, CLP8, CLP14, CLP16 and CLP17.
GM40 is used as temporary shunter at Whyalla (steel plant). GM34 is stored at Dry Creek. CLF5, GM44, GM45 and GM47 are frequently used to haul passenger and freight trains between Adelaide and Darwin.
CLP14 is working out of Darwin on the Territory Iron Union Reef ore trains.
ARG GM30 was planned to be outshopped by EDI Rail Forrestfield (Perth) as a 2,235 kW Type AT26C-3 unit in the spring of 2008, but this plan has been cancelled and was scrapped in the end of 2013.
SRHC owned S310 undergoes an overhaul at SSR Bendigo.
GM36 (Seymour Rail Heritage Centre, CR maroon/silver livery), CFCLA S300 (in CFCLA livery), S302 (now in orange/grey El Zorro livery and on standard gauge bogies, but now owned by SSR),
S303 (VR blue/yellow) and Rail Power S312 (black with white and yellow stripes) were used as standard gauge power for El Zorro grain trains between loading points in New South Wales and Victoria to various southern locations
including Junee, Geelong, Tocumwal and Hopetoun. However, they have no work at the moment.
B64 (heavily stripped in V/Line orange and grey livery) was bought by the now defunct El Zorro from Steamrail Victoria in September 2008 and currently stands for assesment at Avteq workshop in North Sunshine (McIntyre).
Together with Steamrail S313 (in VR blue/gold livery) they are also currently used by QUBE to transport rice for Sunrice at Deniliquin. Empty container train 9071 runs daily from North Melbourne yard (departure around 05:25 hours) via Bendigo and Echuca (broad gauge passenger lines) to Deniliquin (arrival around 11:15 hours). The daily full container train 9072 with rice departs Deniliquin around 16:00 hours. CFCLA S311 is used by Qube on its Melbourne - Horsham container trains which have a 17:51 - 18:19 hours runthrough Gheringhap (depending on the day) on Monday-Thursday and at 20:30 hours (but normally runs on the times of the other days of the week) in the direction of Melbourne.
- A71 is sometimes used as power for the 9552/9553/9556/9558 Pacific National Long Island steel trains between Westernport and Long Island, which even run on Saturdays.
- The 9305/9306 Tocumwal freight trains. The 9305 departs Melbourne Appleton Dock on Tuesday and Thursday at 18:50 hours and runs via Sunshine and Broadford (20:58 hours) to Tocumwal (arrival 01:00 hours the next day). The Sunday 9305 runs approximately half an hour later. Return working 9306 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday depart Tocumwal at 16:05 hours and runs via Broadford (19:53 hours) to Appleton Dock (arrival 21:45 hours). Sometimes, these trains run on other days of the week as well.
- The 9461/9462 Maryvale paper trains (6 times per week with a 9462 departure at 17:55 hours (Monday-Friday)/17:38 hours (Sunday) and arrival of 9461 around 06:00 hours from and to Melbourne).
- The 9141/9142 Maryborough grain container trains. The 9141 departs Melbourne West Tower Arrival Yard at 17:40 hours on Monday and Wednesday (via Bacchus Marsh 19:25 hours) and on Friday at 20:15 hours with return working 9142 departing Maryborough at 23:00 hours on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday and arrival at Melbourne Kensington at 06:00 hours). There is also a trip train on Monday and Thursday planned from Maryborough (d. 11:30/a. 17:45 hours) to Boort (a. 14:25/d. 15:00 hours).
- The 9080/9280 daily freight train services from Melbourne Tottenham Yard (d. 22:20/a. between 01:40 and 04:30 hours) to Piangil (a. 08:20/d. between 18:15 and 19:05 hours).
- The 9245/9246 Tuesday, Thursday and Friday cement trains from Somerton Cement Siding (9245 d. 02:00 hours) via North Geelong Yard (a. 03:45/d. 10:35 hours) to Waurn Pounds (a. 11:05 hours). Return working 9246 departs Waurn Ponds at 12:15 hours and arrives at North Geelong Yard at 12:45 hours
- The 9101/9102 container trains between Appleton Dock and Merbein. The 9101 departs Appleton Dock on Mondays at 10:35 hours and runs via Gheringhap (12:50/13:43), Ballarat (14:50/55) and Maryborough (16:17/22) to Merbein (arrival at 23:49 hours). The Appleton departure on Wednesday and Friday is at 20:15 hours and runs via Bacchus Marsh (21:44) to Merbein (arrival the next day at 08:00 hours). Return working 9102 has different time schedules on Sunday (Merbein departure 17:25 hours; arrival Appleton Dock the next day at 05:05 hours), Tuesday (Merbein departure 16:05 hours; arrival Appleton Dock the next day at 03:45 hours) and Thursday (Merbein departure 17:25 hours; arrival Appleton Dock the next day at 06:25 hours). There is also a Tuesday and Thursday trip train service 9148/9149 working between Merbein (departure 12:30 hours, arrival at 14:20 hours) and Mildura Cement Siding (13:10/13:40 hours).
- And sometimes the Monday-Friday operated 9340/9318 Apex quarry stone train (Westall Apex Siding departure of 9340 at 09:00 hours, Kilmore East Apex Quarry Siding arrival at 11:50 hours; return working 9318 departs at 13:50 hours and arrives at Brooklyn Hanson Siding at 15:25 hours. There is also a pair 9319/9430 (Monday-Thursday 9319 departure 19:50 from Brooklyn Hanson Siding; return 9430 Monday-Thursday departure at 22:20 hours from Kilmore East Apex Quarry Siding).
Belgium
TSP sold its 5201 (not with round noses anymore) to the NOHAB-GM Foundation in Hungary. It was transported to Hungary in September 2016.
Canada
Canadian National has repainted E9A No. 102 in a variation of its classic green-and-black 1950s paint scheme with “Canadian National” spelled out on the sides and the
classic Maple Leaf logo on the nose. The unit, which was repainted at CN’s Woodcrest Shop in Homewood,
made its debut on a business train inspecting the Winnipeg–Chicago corridor April 16-18 2014. It is one of four operational former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy E units CN inherited when it acquired Illinois Central
in 1999, Nos. 100-103. No. 103 is in the red, white, and black CN color scheme. Nos. 100-101 still wear their monochrome silver, black, and white scheme IC colors.
E9/E9M 100 and E9A 101 were bought by Iowa Pacific Holding in 2014. Source: TRAINS.
E9/E9M 100 and E9A 101 were bought by Iowa Pacific Holding in 2014. Source: TRAINS.
Sweden
Inlandsbanan Di 3 623 got one cabine burned out after an accident in Fagelsjö on 5 April 2014. may be Di 3 621 will be repaired instead.
USA
F7A 787 and F7A 788 last used on the Minnesota Zephyr Dinner Train on 31 December 2008 were purchased by Iowa Pacific Holdings and were moved to the
San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad facility in Alamosa, Colo.
Cliffs-Erie Mining F9A 4210 and F9A 4214 were sold to the Vermillion Valley in Illinois in the end of 2014. They Will be overhauled and repainted in
a NYC scheme.
Roundnoses news in 2013
Denmark
Hector Rail doesn't serve Kolding any more and therefore the shunting with a roundnose is over there.
Lokalbanen MX 16 was painted in a yellow livery early 2013.
Since 1 January 2013 TX Logistik operates the Dyckerhoff Werk-Deuna cement trains from Germany to Taulov. Railcare provides the traction in Denmark instead of
CFL Cargo before.
CFL Cargo Danmark MY 1146 has been painted in the GM brown/yellow stripe livery in October 2013.
Germany
Strabag Rail MY 1147 was painted in a grey with white stripe livery of Strabag in March 2013.
Altmark Rail MY 1149 gets its major overhaul in Haldensleben in March 2013.
Cargo Logistic Rail MY 1151 was overhauled in haldensleben and was fully operational as from 1 march 2013.
Hungary
Since 5 November 2013 NOHAB-GM Foundation M61-010 (now numbered 92 55 0618 010-6, or 618 010 in short) runs for MTMG Logisztikal Zrt. oil trains from Nyergesújfalu to Gyõr. This is a feeder service for the Retrack project.
Kosovo
The 005 is used for the trains to Peja, the 007 runs the loco hauled trains to and from Hani i Elezit and the
008 is used for freight trains.
Sweden
Railcare Tåg AB TMY 1157 got the red/white/blue livery of ThreeT AB in the beginning of 2013.
Railcare Tåg AB TMY 1105 got the white livery in the summer of 2013.
Hovedstadens Lokalbaner MX 16 (ex-DSB MX 1045) got a yellow livery early 2013.
3.629 (ex-Ofotbanen Drift) is now owned by Skandinaviska Jernbanor (Sweden).
Inlandsbanan sold its four operational TMX locomotives to Svensk Tågkraft in November 2013.
USA and Canada
Former Canadian National FP9 No. 6304 that has operated on the Washington & Idaho Railway since 2008 is leaving the property. The leased unit was owned by Phillip Sheridan,
but has been sold to Saskatchewan farmer Gary Southgate, who hopes to assemble a railroad museum in the Canadian province. Southgate already owns nine ex-CN passenger cars, and plans to paint them and the F-unit
in CN’s 1954 green and black paint scheme. He also owns Canadian Pacific 4-8-4 No. 3101. The unit, built in 1954 as CN No. 6509 and later operated by VIA Rail Canada, is painted in a version of Southern Pacific’s
“Black Widow” colors. The unit is presently stored in Marshall, but will move to Canada after some clerical issues are cleared up. The unit is fully operational, but will be placed on static display in Saskatchewan.
Source: TRAINS.
Roundnoses news in 2012
Belgium
5211, 5216, 5301 und 5306 have been scrapped in July 2012. The 5215 and 5217 (for spares) went to the TSP society mid 2012.
Canada
In the end of 2012, Orford Express dinner train, which is based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, expanded its roster with ex-New Haven FL9 2009
(now numbered 484) from Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.
The Ontario Northland Railway (ONR) operates both freight and passenger ('Polar Bear Express') services on its 186 miles main line from Cochrane to Moosonee. Nowadays GP38-2s
form the traction. The ONR 'Northlander' passenger train from Toronto to Cochrane, for which three roundnoses were used in the past, was discontinued in 2012. The Ontario Northland Railway owns
three 1951 - 1953 GM built Class FP7A locomotives (out of Co'Co', 16-567B engine equiped) which were rebuilt with 2,075 hp Caterpillar 3516 engines and renumbered 2000 - 2002 (original numbers are 1502, 1509 resp.
1521). Since week 16, 2004 Ontario Northland Railway (ONR) has taken it's FP7A 2001 and 2002 out of service. The third FP7A, numbered 2000, was still in service in March 2012, but is probably not used anymore.
The remaining other, original ONR FP7A locomotives, have been taken out of service as well and stand in North Bay (ONR 1501, 1508, 1518 and 1520). ONR also owns
four rebuilt F7A and F7B/F9B cabless locomotives (numbered 202 - 205), three bought from the Milwaukee Road and one from GO Transit (an ex-Northern Pacific F7B).
Ontario Southland Railway has recently acquired three EMD FP9s for freight service. The southern Ontario short line operates 73 miles of former Canadian Pacific track with an
eclectic mix of Montreal Locomotive Works and EMD power. The first FP9 to arrive on Ontario Southland was former Waterloo & St. Jacobs Railway WSJR No. 6508. The unit is presently at the Ontario Southland shop in Salford
undergoing repair and will be the first to be placed in service. The other two FP9s, Nos. 1400 and 1401 with RLK reporting marks and Railink lettering, are former RailAmerica locomotives assigned to the Goderich & Exeter
Railway in southern Ontario. The two locomotives are currently stored in Goderich and will receive minor repairs to their draft gear which will enable them to be moved. Once repaired, the two will move to the Guelph
Junction Railway shop in Campbellville for storage. The Guelph Junction Railway is operated by Ontario Southland under contract for the City of Guelph who owns the railway.
All three FP9s are former Canadian National locomotives, transferred to VIA Rail Canada in 1978, who rebuilt and upgraded them to Dash 2 specs in 1984.
Ontario Southland will be the only short line in Canada to have F units in freight service when No. 6508 is placed in service. Source: TRAINS.
VIA Rail Canada donated its last F unit to the British Columbia Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in the end of 2011.
Now the group is repainting the operational unit to a generic cream and royal blue at a warehouse in New Westminster, B.C., where it is stored along with several vintage passenger cars,
The Province newspaper reports. VIA 6300 was retained by the railroad as the shop switcher for its Vancouver Maintenance Center until it was donated to the NRHS group.
Locomotive 6300 is an FP9 built for Canadian National in April 1957 as 6524. It was transferred to VIA in March 1978. In 1983 Canadian National remanufactured it at its Pointe St. Charles shop
in Montreal and it was renumbered VIA 6300. The unit was the only locomotive rebuilt following a head-on collision between VIA’s Super Continental/Skeena and a Canadian National freight train on Feb. 8, 1986
near Hinton, Alberta, which killed 23 people. The smashed front end of 6300 was replaced using the nose and cab from Kansas City Southern F7A 4062.Source: TRAINS.
Denmark
In December 2010 CFL Cargo Danmark MX 1029 was painted in a GM brown/yellow stripe livery, like the MX 1023.
Germany
Braunschweiger Bahn Service (BSBS) MY 1142 (ex-DSB MY 1142; NoHAB 2383/1958) has been painted in a red/black roof livery (somewhat like the V200 locomotives) since June 2012.
Kosovo
Only roundnose Di3 007 is operational. 005 has broken bogie springs, 006 is still awaiting its overhauled turbocharger from Serbia (!) and 008 was damaged in a derailment
in May 2012.
Mexico
I wasn't aware of it before, but the Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos in Puebla has two EMD roundnoses: ex-Sonora Baja California (SBC) F7 2203 in an orange livery and ex-National Railroad of Mexico FP9-A 7020
(one of 25 FP9-A units for the National Railroad of Mexico in 1956). The latter poses with an F7 booster unit from 1951. MNFM takes also good care of former Santa Fe/D&H Alco PA-1 DH-17 and DH-19. They regularly run DH-19
on a short stretch of museum trackage. Source: TRAINS.
Norway
Railcare Tåg AB had its license revoked in Norway on 3 July 2012. Since then, Tågab uses its MY locomotive to haul used paper trains from Alnabru (Oslo) via the Gjøvikbane, Roa, Jevnaker,
Hønefoss to Hen.
Sweden
Di3.615 was scrapped in Östersund in June 2012.
In January 2012 Danish company Contec Rail sold MX 1009, MX 1038 and MX 1041 to Swedish company Svensk Tågkraft. All three locomotives were previously bought by
Contec Rail from Nordjyske Jernbaner in the second half of 2008.
Since 17 May 2012 Tågab runs a paper train once a week between Kristinehamn via Kongsvingen (NO) to Ranheim (NO).
USA
In December 2012, Norfolk Southern bought two F7As and one F7B from NREC. The F7As are former C&NW F7A 407 (relettered as SOU 407) and former CN F7A 9177 (relettered as SOU 9177).
The F7B is the former CP Rail F7B 1019 (relettered as SOU 1019).
In August 2012 the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Railway Company (SCMB), a noncarrier owned by Iowa Pacific Holdings, LLC and Permian Basin Railways, has filed a verified notice of exemption at the STB
to acquire by assignment from Sierra Northern Railway its lease and operating rights over a 31.0-mile rail line owned by Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP). The line, known as the Santa Cruz Branch,
extends from milepost 0.433 at the east boundary of Salinas Road, near Watsonville Junction, Cal., to milepost 31.39 at the end of the line near Davenport, Cal., and includes an interconnection with
Santa Cruz, Big Trees Pacific Railway Company at milepost 20.4 in Santa Cruz, Cal., and an additional 3.6 miles of siding and spur track. Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay RR has received F's 82 and 84 (ex-B&), ex-MARC)
from Yakima, Washington.
Two "DL&W" E's 807 and 808 that were stored at the NYS fairgrounds in Syracuse, NY, are now in Saratoga,NY for service on the Saratoga & North Creek RR.
The New York, Susquehanna & Western (NYS&W) two E9As (one is numbered 2402) are now in Hyannis, Ma. for service for Iowa Pacific Holdings.
A former Canadian National EMD F9B, No. 6622, last owned by the Carolina Southern Railroad, was sold to the San Louis & Rio Grande Railroad in Alamosa, Colorado, in August 2012.
The owner of the defunct Minnesota Zephyr Dinner Train says he intends to scrap the two F7A locomotives that powered the train when it shut down in 2008. The two locomotives are landlocked in Stillwater,
the train’s former operating base. The line they ran on is being salvaged for a state trail. Source: TRAINS.
The Galveston Railroad Museum owns freshly overhauled former Southern Pacific F7A 6443 and Texas & New Orleans F7A 365 (two ex-SP/WAG/PAT/ConnDOT F7A's 6690 and 6691) which it acquired for $190,000 from the Railroad Museum of New England in
November 2010. In spring 2012 they underwent a complete rebuild at Motive Power & Equipment Solutions in Greenville, South Carolina, and were painted into Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe’s red and silver passenger scheme for use at the museum before delivery in June 2012. The two locomotives have been numbered ATSF 315 and 316, which were two members of Santa Fe’s 300 class F7As
to see regular service pulling the Texas Chief between Chicago and Galveston on trains 15 and 16. The two F7As are the showcase of the museum’s end 2012 grand reopening following extensive repairs at
the museum from damage caused by Hurricane Ike in 2008. The two units replace the Texas Limited 100 and 200 (Southern Pacific #6379 and Southern Pacific #6309) since they were cut up after hurricane damage.
Iowa Pacific Holding’s Arizona Eastern E8 No. 6070 is on its way to Wisconsin & Southern’s paint shop in Horicon, where it will be repainted in a version of Illinois Central’s chocolate and orange passenger colors.
The ex-Chicago & North Western unit will also be renumbered 515, the number it wore in its final years of C&NW and Metraservice. The unit was built in June 1953 as C&NW 5029B and was renumbered 515 in May 1974.
The E unit had been painted in a version of Southern Pacific’s “black widow” black and silver paint scheme, appropriate for the ex-SP Arizona Eastern lines it operated over.
Last year Iowa Pacific sold Arizona Eastern to Genesee & Wyoming, Inc. and moved No. 6070 to its Saratoga & North Creek Railway in upstate New York. Earlier this year the locomotive was moved to the Chicago area
and pulled trips out of the Windy City to Indianapolis and Sturtevant, Wis.
Another Iowa Pacific ex-C&NW E8, No. 518 (ex-C&NW 5030A) has already been repainted in IC colors. Source: TRAINS, 22 March 2012. Iowa Pacific Holdings is continuing its program of acquiring E8 and E9s diesels and rebuilding them for future passenger and excursion work. This week the company sent former Burlington Northern E8 9906, now San Luis & Rio Grande 520, to Mid-America Car in Kansas City, Mo., for rebuilding. When completed the unit will be repainted in chocolate brown and orange Illinois Central passenger colors. EMD built No. 520 in 1953 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy as E8A No. 9972. It became Burlington Northern No. 9972 in 1970. Used in Chicago commuter service, it was rebuilt into an E9AM by Morrison-Knudsen in 1978 and renumbered BN 9906. After BN’s E-unit fleet was retired in 1992, it was sold to Maryland Transit Administration’s MARC commuter service, becoming MARC 66. The unit then went to the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, which sold it to Iowa Pacific Holdings. Another former CB&Q/BN/MARC E8A at the museum has been restored to its original Burlington Route number, 9939A, and repainted in CB&Q colors. Iowa Pacific has also purchased a former E9B from the Alaska Railroad. The unit was constructed in 1957 as Illinois Central 4108 and saw service into the Amtrak era. In 1981 it was sold to the Alaska Railroad, where it was converted to a head-end power unit and numbered P-30. Although it currently rides on four-wheel trucks, Iowa Pacific plans to convert it back to a powered B-unit and restore its six-wheel trucks. Source: TRAINS, 18 May 2012. Rock Island E6A 630 and E8A 652 are under evaluation at Mid America Car Co., in Kansas City, Missouri, which has performed mechanical work on Iowa Northern locomotives. Iowa Northern President Dan Sabin told Trains NewsWire in March 2012 the two units, acquired in 2010 from private ownership, could see cosmetic, operational, or total rehabilitation. The results of the evaluation should be available by early April 2012. During private ownership, the two units operated on the Midland Railway Historical Association’s trackage between Midland and Ottawa, Kan. No. 652 arrived at Midland in 1985 and No. 630 in 2000. Neither has run in several years. Iowa Pacific Holdings has acquired ex-Canadian National F7Au 9163, built in 1952, and former CN and VIA F9B 6622, built in 1957, from short line Carolina Southern, based in Conway, S.C. The equipment is being acquired for existing and planned passenger and tourist operations. All will require extensive rehabilitation before being put into service. Larry's Truck Electric bought the two ex-CN/VIA FP9s, 6302 and 6308 from the Georgia Southwestern Railroad in 2011. Both wear a variation of the old Central of Georgia Railroad colors. They are stored in the Ohio Commerce Center, an industrial park in Lordstown, Ohio. In between a passenger car is placed as customers meeting center of Larry's Truck Electric. The company has several hundred locomotives on lease and also owns the E9A 9925 which is on the property of Larry's Truck Electric's workshop in McDonald, Ohio. 2 Susq. E's are now in Hyannis Ma. for service in Massachusetts for Iowa Pacific Holdings.
Another Iowa Pacific ex-C&NW E8, No. 518 (ex-C&NW 5030A) has already been repainted in IC colors. Source: TRAINS, 22 March 2012. Iowa Pacific Holdings is continuing its program of acquiring E8 and E9s diesels and rebuilding them for future passenger and excursion work. This week the company sent former Burlington Northern E8 9906, now San Luis & Rio Grande 520, to Mid-America Car in Kansas City, Mo., for rebuilding. When completed the unit will be repainted in chocolate brown and orange Illinois Central passenger colors. EMD built No. 520 in 1953 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy as E8A No. 9972. It became Burlington Northern No. 9972 in 1970. Used in Chicago commuter service, it was rebuilt into an E9AM by Morrison-Knudsen in 1978 and renumbered BN 9906. After BN’s E-unit fleet was retired in 1992, it was sold to Maryland Transit Administration’s MARC commuter service, becoming MARC 66. The unit then went to the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, which sold it to Iowa Pacific Holdings. Another former CB&Q/BN/MARC E8A at the museum has been restored to its original Burlington Route number, 9939A, and repainted in CB&Q colors. Iowa Pacific has also purchased a former E9B from the Alaska Railroad. The unit was constructed in 1957 as Illinois Central 4108 and saw service into the Amtrak era. In 1981 it was sold to the Alaska Railroad, where it was converted to a head-end power unit and numbered P-30. Although it currently rides on four-wheel trucks, Iowa Pacific plans to convert it back to a powered B-unit and restore its six-wheel trucks. Source: TRAINS, 18 May 2012. Rock Island E6A 630 and E8A 652 are under evaluation at Mid America Car Co., in Kansas City, Missouri, which has performed mechanical work on Iowa Northern locomotives. Iowa Northern President Dan Sabin told Trains NewsWire in March 2012 the two units, acquired in 2010 from private ownership, could see cosmetic, operational, or total rehabilitation. The results of the evaluation should be available by early April 2012. During private ownership, the two units operated on the Midland Railway Historical Association’s trackage between Midland and Ottawa, Kan. No. 652 arrived at Midland in 1985 and No. 630 in 2000. Neither has run in several years. Iowa Pacific Holdings has acquired ex-Canadian National F7Au 9163, built in 1952, and former CN and VIA F9B 6622, built in 1957, from short line Carolina Southern, based in Conway, S.C. The equipment is being acquired for existing and planned passenger and tourist operations. All will require extensive rehabilitation before being put into service. Larry's Truck Electric bought the two ex-CN/VIA FP9s, 6302 and 6308 from the Georgia Southwestern Railroad in 2011. Both wear a variation of the old Central of Georgia Railroad colors. They are stored in the Ohio Commerce Center, an industrial park in Lordstown, Ohio. In between a passenger car is placed as customers meeting center of Larry's Truck Electric. The company has several hundred locomotives on lease and also owns the E9A 9925 which is on the property of Larry's Truck Electric's workshop in McDonald, Ohio. 2 Susq. E's are now in Hyannis Ma. for service in Massachusetts for Iowa Pacific Holdings.
Roundnoses news in 2011
Australia
Germany
MY 1155 was bought by Altmark-Rail in June 2011.
In the end of 2011, Altmark-Rail also bought MY 1143 and MY 1155. The MY 1155 got an overhaul and the oberhaul of MY 1143 will probably be completed in the end of 2012. EBS MY 1131 is together with the V 180 of EBS used for a tank car train service between Wiederitzsch and Gera from Monday to Saturday. MY 1142 is now parked in the VBV Lokpark in the Borsigstraße (former Braunschweig workshop). It is owned by the new Braunschweiger Bahn Service (BSBS) company and can be rented. MY 1147 is used to transport infrastructure equipment at the moment.
In the end of 2011, Altmark-Rail also bought MY 1143 and MY 1155. The MY 1155 got an overhaul and the oberhaul of MY 1143 will probably be completed in the end of 2012. EBS MY 1131 is together with the V 180 of EBS used for a tank car train service between Wiederitzsch and Gera from Monday to Saturday. MY 1142 is now parked in the VBV Lokpark in the Borsigstraße (former Braunschweig workshop). It is owned by the new Braunschweiger Bahn Service (BSBS) company and can be rented. MY 1147 is used to transport infrastructure equipment at the moment.
Sweden
Since 11 December 2011 Tågåkeriet i Bergslagen AB runs three StoraEnso wood log trains per week on behalf of Hector Rail from Torsby via Kil to Skoghall. Traction form two TMY locomotives.
Svensk Tågkraft uses operational TMX 1012 (ex-DSB MX 1012, ex-BSM TMX 1012) in a new red/white stripe livery.
Railcare Tåg TMY 1150 was pained in white.
Inlandsbanan Di3 621 was painted in green/white livery. Railcare Tåg AB TMX 1015 and TMY 1110 were painted in a red/white/blue livery of ThreeT AB in the end of 2011.
USA
Alaska Railroad F7 1500 (ex B&LE 720) was sold to the Grafton & Upton RR, a shortline in Eastern Massachusetts. They also recently bought Alaska Railroad F7 1508 from a private owner.
The 1502 (ex-GM&O, MBTA & MN FL9 2007) will be used as a parts source for the 2 F's & a GP9.
The 2 ex-SP/WAG/PAT F's 6690 and 6691 have been sold for $190,000 by the Railroad Museum of New England in Thomaston, Connecticut to the Galveston Railroad Museum in Texas. They are now in South Carolina for
refurbishing for service in Texas. After the engines are brought up to standards, including air brakes, couplers and assorted other modifications, the Southern Pacific colors will be stripped
and the diesels will be repainted in red, yellow and silver, the colors of the historic Santa Fe Chiefs. They then will be towed DIT (Dead-in Tow), probably in August 2011,
from South Carolina to Houston. The two units will replace the Texas Limited 100 and 200 (Southern Pacific #6379 and Southern Pacific #6309) since they are being cut up after hurricane damage.
Stone Mountain Park in Atlanta has released the first of its two former Southern Railway FP7A units after a complete rebuilding.
No. 6143 was released in mid-April, while No. 6147 should be out of the shop by July 4. Dixie Engine & Equipment Co. of Pell City, Ala., was tasked with rebuilding the units.
Each rebuilt unit is receiving an EMD 16-645E engine, replacing the original 567BC, as well as a rebuilt D12 main generator, new cooling fans and radiators, Dash 2 electrical components,
and D87 traction motors. The original 24RL brake system has been replaced with a 26L, and a new Perkins 400-series diesel will provide head-end power.
The 6143 and 6147 were built in 1950 for Southern Railway’s CNO&TP Division. Southern eventually sold the pair to the New Georgia Railway. The engines were delivered to the New Georgia in the
Southern’s “Tuxedo” green, gold, and white paint scheme, but later repainted by the New Georgia into Central of Georgia colors. New Georgia purchased the units from Norfolk Southern in the late 1980s
and used them on public trips, dinner trains, and charters out of Atlanta, running over both NS and CSX trackage. When the New Georgia ceased operations in 1995, Stone Mountain Park acquired
the engines for its scenic railroad.
Central States Railroad Associates' Columbia Star Dinner Train will start operating with two F-units for dinner train operations
in Missouri between Colombia and Centralia as from 15 July 2011.
Roundnoses news in 2010
Denmark
Lokalbanen's MX 16 was painted yellow in October 2010.
Early 2010 CFL Cargo Danmark sold its MX 1008 (operational) and MY 1154 (not operational) to Contec Rail. MX 1008 was equipped with ATC and painted in Contec Rail blue/white stripe livery in March 2010.
It currently stands in Randers.
Railcare's MY 1122 and MY 1134 have had an overhaul and currently reside in Padborg, Denmark.
Germany