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The GEXR is a favourite road of mine. It is the sort of road that if you visit it 3 times in a couple of weeks and it is the same old power, go back in 6 months. It will be a totally different railroad. This image from 1999 illustrates the point. GEXR 4019, 3834, 4161 and GSWR 2127 southbound working at Mitchell. In the 15 years since this photo was taken, the 4019 is now in the US, 3834 sold, and GSWR scrapped in 2008, as was the 4161, which was a slug, mate for 3834.
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Caption: The GEXR is a favourite road of mine. It is the sort of road that if you visit it 3 times in a couple of weeks and it is the same old power, go back in 6 months. It will be a totally different railroad. This image from 1999 illustrates the point. GEXR 4019, 3834, 4161 and GSWR 2127 southbound working at Mitchell. In the 15 years since this photo was taken, the 4019 is now in the US, 3834 sold, and GSWR scrapped in 2008, as was the 4161, which was a slug, mate for 3834.

Photographer:
A.W. Mooney [2136] (more) (contact)
Date: 02/08/1999 (search)
Railway: Goderich-Exeter (search)
Reporting Marks: GEXR 4019 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: GEXR Goderich Sub. (search)
City/Town: Mitchell (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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7 Comments
  1. rsmith
    December 24, 2013 at 8:36 am

    3834 was scrapped in Goderich earlier this year along with 4019. Dare I ask how you got the elevation for the shot?

  2. Kpnc
    December 24, 2013 at 8:55 am

    Oh wow, now this takes me back! Any chance you have any of the original four geeps or any of the early stuff Mr. Mooney? I spent my summers at my grandparents in Goderich watching the original four fight the hill. Love your shots btw :)

  3. awmooney
    December 24, 2013 at 11:22 am

    Kpnc: I’ll see what I can find.
    Mr. Smith: On yeah, the elevation….well, this is one place I shall remember because I saw this pile of pallets & wood up against a building and there was no way I was going to let the opportunity pass for this shot. What was memorial about this occasion was it must have been the only time I didn’t manage to fall somehow. I checked this location last year and the angle is no longer possible. :o (

  4. awmooney
    December 24, 2013 at 11:41 am

    A follow-up, ‘Kpnc’…A while back I posted a shot from 1994 ( http://railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6274) from Goderich, and also can tell you I was rather surprised to see x-GEXR 179, in terrible faded Mid-Michigan Rwy paint, working on the Otter Tail Valley RR in Fergus Falls, MN this past May. So it soldiers on!!

  5. Kpnc
    December 24, 2013 at 1:47 pm

    Now that’s what I’m talking about. Miss those green and cream geeps! 180 Flagstaff was my favorite way back when, she also went to the MMRR last I recall.

  6. rsmith
    December 24, 2013 at 10:53 pm

    Correcting myself, it was 4046 that was scrapped with 3834 in June 2013, not 4019.

  7. MrDan
    December 24, 2013 at 11:09 pm

    A neat look at the “old” GEXR Arnold!

    4019 donated its long hood to an ONR GP40-2 unit that was damaged, and the rest of 4019 went south to NS’ Juaniata Shops to be rebuilt into a DGNO genset loco. Hell, even many of the other longtime “regulars” on GEXR are gone elsewhere: the RLK F’s to OSR, and the 3835, 3856 and 4096 to the OVR.

    Last I heard, Mid Michigan scrapped both their ex-GEXR Geeps (179 and 180) not too long ago.
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