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The Head of the Class !! First of an illustrious series of SD40 locomotives on this railroad, CN 5000 leads a westbound on approach to Bayview Jct in the late afternoon sun of a mild November day. This unit was built in September of 1967 and held on almost to the bitter end. There are none left on the once 241 strong on the CN roster and this unit was one of the last dozen to be retired. Don't really know, but I assume it was scrapped. Seeing this was a surprise, as I thought it was based out West. Second unit is 5281.
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Caption: The Head of the Class !! First of an illustrious series of SD40 locomotives on this railroad, CN 5000 leads a westbound on approach to Bayview Jct in the late afternoon sun of a mild November day. This unit was built in September of 1967 and held on almost to the bitter end. There are none left on the once 241 strong on the CN roster and this unit was one of the last dozen to be retired. Don't really know, but I assume it was scrapped. Seeing this was a surprise, as I thought it was based out West. Second unit is 5281.

Photographer:
A.W.Mooney [2139] (more) (contact)
Date: 11/09/1999 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 5000 (search)
Train Symbol: unknown (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CN Oakville Sub. (search)
City/Town: Aldershot (Snake) (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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8 Comments
  1. Stephen C. Host
    December 19, 2023 at 9:35 am

    Very nice. A few of them stuck around and some made it to this area before being retired, as late as 2005. I didn’t get very many.. even fewer leading.

  2. Alexander Medora
    December 19, 2023 at 1:11 pm

    If nobody saved the number boards, we all deserve the wrath of God.

  3. Marcus Stevens
    December 19, 2023 at 6:01 pm

    I thought I heard years ago that unit was to be preserved but no sure what happened to it in the end. I was thankful I caught a lot of them later as Alstom rebuilds. Beauty shot!

  4. Eric May
    December 19, 2023 at 8:35 pm

    It sadly got scrapped.

  5. awmooney
    December 19, 2023 at 8:41 pm

    I was afraid of that. Thanks, Eric.

  6. MemoryJct
    December 20, 2023 at 11:52 am

    Theres a picture on this website of it being scrapped. Not sure what is up with the ridiculous URL but here it is.

    http://www.railpictures.ca/upload/sometimes-you-just-cant-save-them-all-the-remains-of-cns-very-first-sd40-sit-in-the-athabasca-northerns-yard-local-rumors-had-this-unit-headed-to-the-alberta-railway-museum-however-she-never

  7. Stephen C. Host
    December 20, 2023 at 4:48 pm

    If you go down the photo page under’ province’ you can find and and use the ‘share link’ it’s the shorter URL. Every post has a share link, both it and the long URL work just fine.

    The long URL is useful for search engine indexing and drives more traffic from people searching through google. This is called Search Engine Optimization :)

  8. MemoryJct
    December 20, 2023 at 8:46 pm

    Oh well that makes sense. Didn’t notice the share link. Thanks Host!
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