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 Post subject: Re: Saskatchewan Farmer buys 4-8-4 and historic equipment
PostPosted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:22 pm 

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Les, the renumbering happened after she was taken out of service

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 Post subject: Re: Saskatchewan Farmer buys 4-8-4 and historic equipment
PostPosted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:29 am 

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I wish him the best on his edeavor.

Does anyone have additional pictures of his passenger cars?

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 Post subject: Re: Saskatchewan Farmer buys 4-8-4 and historic equipment
PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 7:58 pm 
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An update from today on Mr. Southgate's equipment. Hopefully this link works, it's a Facebook video but I was able to watch it without being logged in.

https://www.facebook.com/zartok35/video ... 7181147341

This is the former Okanagan Wine Train equipment and several other cars being moved between two Saskatchewan shortlines, from the Wheatland Railway to the Great Western Railway. I'm told that he has plans to partner with the GWR to operate an excursion train down there.

His pair of rebuilt ex-VIA/CN F-units were also recently moved to the GWR from the former storage location at the Alberta Railway Museum. 6304 and 6311 were both rebuilt to FP9RM specs and given Detroit 6v92T HEP gensets during the 1980s and 90s.

http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=34316

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:22 pm 

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It appears that in the train are CN 5226 and 5228, which he bought from a private owner in Michigan.

Does anyone know what happened to the rest of the items he bought about a decade ago? A collection of other ex-CP and CN passenger equipment from the midwest US?


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 Post subject: Re: Saskatchewan Farmer buys 4-8-4 and historic equipment
PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:58 pm 

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Where is CP 3101 stored?

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 Post subject: Re: Saskatchewan Farmer buys 4-8-4 and historic equipment
PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:05 am 
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CP 3101 never moved, it's still on display outside the Regina pipe mill where it's been since the 1960s.

Mr. Southgate still has one car at the Alberta Railway Museum, the former Algoma Central business car "Agawa". The railways won't move it on its own wheels on account of it having roller bearings in the old plain journal boxes (it came here from Sault Ste Marie on a flatcar) but I expect him to move it eventually.

Another car (ex-VIA/CN lightweight cafe-lounge 754, purchased from the Feather River Rail Society) is on Vancouver Island, leased to the E&N division of the CRHA and currently sitting in Nanaimo. It and a SW8 (not his) are both waiting to be moved to Victoria to be displayed or used at the ex-CP roundhouse that is currently being redeveloped (see the Bayview Place link below for more details), but the track has been out of service for some time so they continue to sit.

https://bayviewplace.com/

Not sure about the rest of his stuff, though I know he already had some cars stored in Shaunavon, SK when his A-B pair of former Keokuk Junction F-units arrived there last year.

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 Post subject: Re: Saskatchewan Farmer buys 4-8-4 and historic equipment
PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 6:57 pm 

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Is Mr. Southgate at all involved with the former Showalter G-5 Pacifics that were repatriated to Canada a number of years ago from Virginia?

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 Post subject: Re: Saskatchewan Farmer buys 4-8-4 and historic equipment
PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 10:33 pm 

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Rob Gardner wrote:
Is Mr. Southgate at all involved with the former Showalter G-5 Pacifics that were repatriated to Canada a number of years ago from Virginia?

Rob Gardner


Mr. Gardner,
A friend of mine repatriated the two G-5 Pacifics They are now owned by the Vintage Locomotive Society and kept at its Prairie Dog Central facility north of Winnipeg, Manitoba along with the operating 4-4-0 No. 3. Not sure of the plans for the Pacifics ?
I do not know the gentleman from Saskatchewan.


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