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PHLX SD40-2s 8 (in an SD45 body) and 13 rest outside of the large elevator at Oban, SK, 8.6 miles west of Biggar on CN's busy Wainwright Sub. #8 is originally an SP unit and #13 originally a CN unit, which would've passed by this location many many times.
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Caption: PHLX SD40-2s 8 (in an SD45 body) and 13 rest outside of the large elevator at Oban, SK, 8.6 miles west of Biggar on CN's busy Wainwright Sub. #8 is originally an SP unit and #13 originally a CN unit, which would've passed by this location many many times.

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Tim Stevens [275] (more) (contact)
Date: 02/25/2016 (search)
Railway: Other (search)
Reporting Marks: PHLX 8 (search)
Train Symbol: Unassigned (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CN Oban (Wainwright Sub) (search)
City/Town: Oban (search)
Province: Saskatchewan (search)
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3 Comments
  1. awmooney
    March 17, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    Hmmm. I saw #15 at Burlington, Iowa in Sept of last year. Newly painted.

  2. MrDan
    March 18, 2016 at 4:21 am

    When it was built decades ago, I bet nobody at EMD envisioned their high-horsepower SD45 being used as a lowly grain elevator switcher!

  3. Stuart Streit
    March 18, 2016 at 12:20 pm

    ANOTHER black industrial unit@*@*!!@!!! Henry Ford would be proud!
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