Comments on: CRAB ORCHARD AND EGYPTIAN STEAM RAILROAD “ PIG HOGGER “ SCOZ 202259 aboard a TTX flat, in the consist of CN 2335 West at London, January 17, 1981 Kodachrome by S.Danko Notable: CRAB ORCHARD and EGYPTIAN RAILROAD – AAR reporting SCOZ: the last steam powered common carrier ( freight only ) Canadian connection: the COER steam motive power ( second ) being 1940 built CLC ex Roberval & Saguenay #17 , a 2-8-0 in COER service 1979 until 1986 when mechanical issue sidelined #17, then sold to Boon & Scenic Valley Railroad. ( thank you Donald R. McQueen: Constructed in Kingston ) SCOZ owned 600 of those highway trailers and a handful of boxcars and 200 trailer flats COER remains a common carrier today with SW first generation power. In the background: CN#15023 Rule Inspection Car (ex CN Colonist Car #2719, nee Pullman ‘ORVISTON’ ); the 1991 Trackside Guide records Diesel Instruction Car #15023 as ‘unserviceable’ pending repair or retirement. sdfourty http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Tue, 26 May 2026 02:46:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: robin lowrie http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44382#comment-44871 robin lowrie Tue, 16 Feb 2021 04:27:28 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/img385-2-1280x720.jpg#comment-44871 COER also has a large fleet of ex-KCS grain cars in service in western Canada. They are painted in the old KCS passenger colours, black with a yellow and a red stripe at the bottom. COER also has a large fleet of ex-KCS grain cars in service in western Canada. They are painted in the old KCS passenger colours, black with a yellow and a red stripe at the bottom.

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