Comments on: Prairie Coal Co. operates a 5 mile long line from its mine south to Saskatchewan Power’s Poplar River generating station east of Coronach in south Central Saskatchewan. in 1991 they had 2 SW1001′s on the Roster.

By: Paul O'Shell

Paul O'Shell — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 14:24:20 +0000

In 2011, 20 years (almost to the day) after Bill’s photo, unit coal trains were still pounding the rails near Coronach, SK.
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6528

By: jknott86

jknott86 — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:30:12 +0000

Mark, they have two SD40-2s (at least they did last I checked in the Fall) and recently acquired a GP35 as well: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=38978

By: Mark MacCauley

Mark MacCauley — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:18:10 +0000

Thats awesome Bill, great catch! I doubt many people even know this exists. I’d be curious to see if the railway aspect carries on today like we see above, but looks like for the time being the power plant is still going but potentially not for too much longer: https://globalnews.ca/news/5915294/coronach-saskatchewan-economic-future-coal/

By: jknott86

jknott86 — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 20:39:40 +0000

Wow!