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

I wish him the best on his edeavor.

Does anyone have additional pictures of his passenger cars?

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

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?

Where is CP 3101 stored?

Wesley

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.

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.

There may be more news about this.

A Facebook post (I know, take it with a grain of salt) is making the rounds talking of CP 3101 being restored for a group called Eastend Scenic Rail Tours with the very same Gary Southgate who bought the locomotive in 2013.

Now, I bring this up because it seems to have everything capable for a mainline steam locomotive to run; rolling stock, a place to run, and no questions of ownership. I even found an article from July of last year saying they were looking to operate trains starting next month (so August of last year). Seems as if this was the outfit that bought at least a portion of the former Keokuk Junction railway’s F units too.

But googling “Eastend Scenic Rail Tours” lists the this is “permanently closed” and I can’t find a website, the article from July of last year only lists the Facebook page (not having been updated since October of last year) and a Gmail.

I’ve listed both the article, and the original post on 3101 shared in Ahead of the Torch both of which are in public groups.

https://www.producer.com/farmliving/ant ... the-rails/

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18iFn7 ... tid=wwXIfr

Gary Southgate has been accumulating ex-CN and CP equipment for about 15 years now - has he restored or operated anything from this collection? And where does he have it stored?

The 3 Canadian Flyer cars, the NYC BAY sleeper/ combination and the baggage car were all part of the Bluewater fleet and were kept at Saginaw. There was a big delay in shipping and I don't know if they ever left Saginaw. That was 2015.

From what someone who claims to be well-acquainted with Mr. Southgate said (And this was on social medial, so take with a grain of salt) he had been long acquiring and working on this stuff in hopes of making an agreement to run excursions on CP or CN, and after years of fruitless attempts to negotiate with the the Class Is, this person suggested he partner with a shortline, in this case Great Western Railway.

Any more news on this?

Here is the company he has set up to run excursions

https://www.facebook.com/eastendscenicrailtours

It will be years before he can get 3101 running if ever. He is well into his 70's so I'm told, so I doubt it will get done.