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After being issued permission to work the east track of the CP MacTier Sub between Emery and Sheppard, CP 4522 North headed up to the switch at the north end, cut off their short train of five empty gondolas, did the ol' run-around and came back up from the south end to lift the cut of loaded scrap gondolas from Combined Metal Industries (CMI) siding. Here the power, GP38-2's 4522 and 3055, have coupled on and are preparing to lift the loads before spotting the empties back onto the siding.

At one point many businesses and industries in the Emery industrial area of North York used rail service, but today only a handful still do, including CMI (scrap), Gerdau Ameristeel (scrap) and Scott Forest Products (wood and lumber products). As per their website, CMI's Toronto Yard deals with all sorts of scrap metal, including cars. A stack of well-worm automobiles are visible under the canopy, drained of their fluids and waiting to be fed into the crusher. Sorted and unsorted scrap metal fills the gondolas: the first appears to be loaded with miscellaneous cut-up metal sections, panels and pieces, the second with scrap brake drums and wheel rims, the third with shredded metal, and the fourth with crushed metal cubes.

A note about the power: while CP 3055 is your run-of-the-mill GMD-built "Canadian" GP38-2, CP 4522 originally started life as a rare EMD GP40X model (a test-bed of sorts for future GP50 technology, including a 3500hp rated 16-645F and HT-B high-adhesion trucks). Built as UP 9003, she eventually found her way to NRE and became rebuild fodder for an order of GP38-2 equivalent units for CP. While the classic GP40X flared radiators were kept, the middle fan was blanked off, new twin non-turbo exhaust stacks replaced the single turbo stack, and a paper air box filer housing was cut into the body ahead of the dynamic brake section. The experimental HT-B trucks were also swapped for standard Blomberg B's.
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Caption: After being issued permission to work the east track of the CP MacTier Sub between Emery and Sheppard, CP 4522 North headed up to the switch at the north end, cut off their short train of five empty gondolas, did the ol' run-around and came back up from the south end to lift the cut of loaded scrap gondolas from the Combined Metal Industries (CMI) siding. Here the power, GP38-2's 4522 and 3055, have coupled on and are preparing to lift the loads before spotting the empties back onto the siding.

At one point many businesses and industries in the Emery industrial area of North York used rail service, but today only a handful still do, including CMI (scrap), Gerdau Ameristeel (scrap) and Scott Forest Products (wood and lumber products). As per their website, CMI's Toronto Yard deals with all sorts of scrap metal, including cars. A stack of well-worm automobiles are visible under the canopy, drained of their fluids and waiting to be fed into the crusher. Sorted and unsorted scrap metal fills the gondolas: the first appears to be loaded with miscellaneous cut-up metal sections, panels and pieces, the second with scrap brake drums and wheel rims, the third with shredded metal, and the fourth with crushed metal cubes.

A note about the power: while CP 3055 is your run-of-the-mill GMD-built "Canadian" GP38-2, CP 4522 originally started life as a rare EMD GP40X model (a test-bed of sorts for future GP50 technology, including a 3500hp rated 16-645F and HT-B high-adhesion trucks). Built as UP 9003, she eventually found her way to NRE and became rebuild fodder for an order of GP38-2 equivalent units for CP. While the classic GP40X flared radiators were kept, the middle fan was blanked off, new twin non-turbo exhaust stacks replaced the single turbo stack, and a paper air filter housing was added to the body ahead of the dynamic brake section. The experimental HT-B trucks were also swapped for standard Blomberg B's.

Photographer:
Dan Dell'Unto [997] (more) (contact)
Date: 08/14/2023 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CP 3055, 4522 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Emery - CP MacTier Sub (search)
City/Town: Toronto (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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3 Comments
  1. Nice shot Dan. Was it from a drone? And what is the train symbol and where does it work out of?

  2. Brad, correct. I think it was CP H27 out of Toronto Yard, could be wrong.

  3. Right. I don’t think it operates out of Lambton down the street from me. They use the engines for the H24 Streetsville/Hornby run and to switch the Yard. Thanks!

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