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Caption: Heritage units? While everyone freaks out about CN's America 250 heritage units the real heritage is at mac yard, toiling away, and you have to be lucky to find it working let alone this far south. CN 7311 is the last CN SW1200 officially on the CN active roster, but there are others: RT110/1394 in yellow at Mac Yard, 7304 in Hamilton, and fairly recently in 2020 one or two at the Hallet Dock company in Duluth as CN bought this dock and assigned DMIR 1250 (ex CP) and 1251 to the dock. 1250 to replace a green NW-2 that's been a fixture at that dock for many decades.
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Great catch Steve. I’m always looking for it operating when I’m railfanning around Mac Yard.
It’s sad that this is the only one left, i really like the look of CN’s end cabs…
I also didn’t know there were ex-CP DMIR locomotives, are there pictures of them somewhere? I tried searching on Google but to no avail.
The hallet dock company “dock 5″ was purchased by the “Wisconsin Central Limited” and the locomotives assigned to it are lettered DMIR – both came from HLCX in August 2024 and are still in HLCX black, one with DMIR scencilled on it – none are DMIR heritage, it’s just a mark accountants chose to use.
Pictures here:
https://onespotter.com/locomotives/railroad/e8962142-a25b-48c3-9e3f-ae0577a94d08/Hallett%20Dock%20Company
Technically they are CN owned, so CN added 2 more SW1200′s to the roster last year
And they may own the other Hallet Dock Company locomotives that came with the acquisition.
But they are assigned to a subsidiary and may not be on the official roster.
The official roster which I have reviewed only shows 7311 last I checked. There’s a number of locomotives not on the roster but still on the property – such as Dash 8′s, GMD-1′s and stuff like this.
I was hoping to see some new SW1200s in CN colors, but this is still very nice to see, despite the fact that they will never leave property. I don’t think i would have ever heard about these if it wasn’t for your picture’s description.