Railpictures.ca - David Young Photo: The last hurrah for the GP9′s in Thunder Bay. With a record amount of grain to move off the prairie the rail companies pulled out some of the old stops. What was typical of CP with a triple set of geeps to move tonnage around Current River, in more recent times (2010 and later) a pair of GP38-2′s or SD40-2′s was all that was used. The 8231 has roughly 7 months left before hitting the deadline, the 8234 has 5 months left. 3115 still rolls the rails somewhere on the CP system as of October 2016. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

The last hurrah for the GP9's in Thunder Bay. With a record amount of grain to move off the prairie the rail companies pulled out some of the old stops. What was typical of CP with a triple set of geeps to move tonnage around Current River, in more recent times (2010 and later) a pair of GP38-2's or SD40-2's was all that was used. The 8231 has roughly 7 months left before hitting the deadline, the 8234 has 5 months left. 3115 still rolls the rails somewhere on the CP system as of October 2016.

Caption: The last hurrah for the GP9's in Thunder Bay. With a record amount of grain to move off the prairie the rail companies pulled out some of the old stops. What was typical of CP with a triple set of geeps to move tonnage around Current River, in more recent times (2010 and later) a pair of GP38-2's or SD40-2's was all that was used. The 8231 has roughly 7 months left before hitting the deadline, the 8234 has 5 months left. 3115 still rolls the rails somewhere on the CP system as of October 2016.

Photographer:	David Young [277] (more) (contact)
Date:	09/16/2014 (search)
Railway:	Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks:	CP 8231 (search)
Train Symbol:	Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS:	Current River, CP Nipigon Sub (search)
City/Town:	Thunder Bay (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
Share Link:	http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=26629

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Stephen C. Host

October 25, 2016 at 8:06 am

i miss em too, but osr uses a pair in daily service in Guelph.

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