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| Author: | joe6167 [ Sun Jul 12, 2015 3:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CN 6726 |
What a fascinating project. CN's Electric Fleet gets little attention. As far as I know, there are only three that have been preserved, though they made a park engine out of one of them (even in 1995 people still hadn't learned about the futility of park engines). All three that I know of are from the Z-1-a class of 1914-7, built for Canadian Northern by General Electric. Here is some roster data. Code: Z-1-a Roster CNR'23 CNR'49 CNR'69 CNoR Number Number Number Number Retired Notes ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ============= 9100 100 6710 600 6/95 On Display outside AMT Deux-Montagnes Station in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec 9101 101 6711 601 6/95 Preserved at Exporail in Delson Quebec 9102 102 6712 602 6/95 9103 103 6713 603 1993 9104 104 6714 604 6/95 Connecticut Trolley Museum 9105 105 6715 605 6/95 At the Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Ontario ![]()
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| Author: | Overmod [ Sun Jul 12, 2015 3:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CN 6726 |
MPI was merged into WABTEC in 1999. I'd think your first point of contact would be: http://www.wabtec.com/subsidiaries/contact.aspx?id=12 either via telephone or form submission. |
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| Author: | artschwartz [ Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CN 6726 |
Add 6714 at the Connecticut Trolley Museum to Joe's list of preserved CN electrics. |
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| Author: | joe6167 [ Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CN 6726 |
Thanks. At least 2/3 of the Z-1-a class was saved, the oldest and most historic of the CN electric fleet, dating back to the Canadian Northern Railway. Apparently 6712 survived up until 2011, when it was finally scrapped, after sitting under a tarp at Town of Mount Royal maintenance facility for 15 years. https://www.flickr.com/photos/43535643@N00/4516805870 |
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| Author: | 70000 [ Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CN 6726 |
I believe that the UK National Railway Museum did give some consideration to obtaining one of the English Electric built boxcabs that CN obtained secondhand from Montreal Harbours Board. This was mentioned in an interview with one of the former NRM Directors in a UK rail magazine a few years back and was something that I was certainly not aware of. Unfortunately nothing came of that proposal and the EE ones were all scrapped. At least I did get a ride behind a pair back in 1991........ https://www.flickr.com/photos/72399068@ ... 102764952/ |
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