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Author:  Pat Fahey [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Looking for information , CPR # 4070 scraping information
Hi All
I am looking to find out when CPR # 4070 , when it was scraped , this locomotive was in the movie Silver Streak, as Amroad # 4070 . After the movie the engine changed hands and when into commuter service in Montreal , Quebec and was renumbered to # 1300 , I know the locomotive when too the Quebec Central , and then I lost track of her .

So what year did she go to scrap ? any information will be helpful , thank you

Pat .
Author:  Chemungvalleyrail [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Looking for information , CPR # 4070 scraping informatio
I wasn't aware that 4070 had gone to scrap, at least I hope it didn't. If it still exists, this "movie star" needs to be preserved.
Author:  joe6167 [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:03 am ]
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As an aside, can some one tell me what the colour coded panel to the left of the AMRoad decal is called? I was trying to read up on it, but can't recall the name of that device...
Author:  davew833 [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:46 am ]
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It's an Automatic Car Identification (ACI) tag which was a system used from the late '60s 'til the late '70s. The tags deteriorated, got dirty, etc., which degraded the accuracy of the system until it was eventually abandoned.
Author:  softwerkslex [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:54 am ]
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Classic! Happy memories. I must have watched this movie hundreds of times.
Author:  MEC_557 [ Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:23 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Looking for information , CPR # 4070 scraping informatio
Last I heard it was still sitting somewhere in rough shape but not scrapped. The other Silver Streak engine, 4082, was scrapped in '84 or '85.
Author:  k5ahudson [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:37 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Looking for information , CPR # 4070 scraping informatio
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It sat at Vallee-Jonction on the Quebec Central for a while, but it was not on site when I was there a year and a half ago UNLESS this is what's left of it. I shot this through the window of the roundhouse at Vallee-Jonction in May of 2010.
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