Never Thought I'd See This in 2018

[Blazeman]

https://www.progressiverailroading.com/canadian_national/news/CN-to-acquire-more-boxcars--54478?

[MK]

It's like bell bottoms.  What's old is new again. 

[Iain]

I like the new crew and track expansion bits.  It's almost like they're recovering from HH

[cv_acr]

TTX has been buying new 50' and 60' boxcars by the thousands almost every year with FBOX and TBOX markings....

[cv_acr]

Quick sample:

2017 builds:

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=ic21006&o=ic
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=tbox639234&o=rbox
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=ucry15844&o=ucry

2016 builds:

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=fbox506782&o=rbox
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=tbox664126&o=rbox

2015 builds:

didn't find any indexed on my site

2014 builds:

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=tbox668163&o=rbox

2013 builds:

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=tbox667603&o=rbox

2012 builds:

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=bnsf761972&o=bnsf
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=dwc795231&o=dwp
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=tbox663242&o=rbox

2011 builds:

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=fbox505505&o=rbox
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=tbox661653&o=rbox

and so on. Way more in the 2000-2010 range...

[cv_acr]

In other articles it been noted that CN is also ordering another 350 lumber (centerbeam) flatcars. The flatcars will be built by NSC; I haven't seen any articles yet that actually indicate who's building the boxcars.

These articles are also all noting the 50 to 60 new locomotives on order from GE as well. Currently CN is quite colourful being awash in a variety of CitiCorp (CREX), ProgressRail (PRLX) and GE (GECX) leasers to take up the slack with the current power shortages.

Over on CP, they've started re-activating a bunch of retired SD40-2s.

[lock4244]

I like the new crew and track expansion bits.  It's almost like they're recovering from HH

CN is bursting at the seams with traffic and is short on power but more importantly and potentially troubling, short on crews. Cannot recruit to meet demand. I hear they just won a contract to ship eight potash trains per month(?) to the east coast... will use grain hoppers as not enough potash cars to cover. Bust times.

[lock4244]

Over on CP, they've started re-activating a bunch of retired SD40-2s.

They're just for ballast trains, and are gathering in Winterpeg afaik.

[Lenny53]

Over on CP, they've started re-activating a bunch of retired SD40-2s.

They had a lot of them laying around Agincourt Yard last year.

[lock4244]

They had a lot of them laying around Agincourt Yard last year.

Unfortunately most went to K&K recycling in Pickering via Oshawa and CN, until CN stopped accepting them due to condition. CP 5824 sat on the transfer in Oshawa for at lease three months before heading back to Agincourt. The scrapping then too place in the yard.

5824 mets her end:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=32367

ICE 6101:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=32594

6602 getting the torch:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=32869

5871 & 6607 getting placed back in service:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=33192
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=33115

[lock4244]

Last I heard, CP 6607 is in Sudbury, was taken up there on train 421 iirc.

[jpwisc]

Along similar lines, while photographing in SoCal a couple weeks ago, I saw a bunch of brand new woodchip cars. It was nice to see.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I can't believe, given their prices on the used market, that ANYONE would scrap an SD40-2 that had a single ounce of life left in it.

[Lenny53]

Another CN order "1,000 new generation grain hopper cars"