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Apr 19, 2024
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ADLX 2623 (Guelph Jct)

AIMX 15086 (American Iron and Steel Group - gondola)

AIMX 19039 (52 foot
4000 CUFT
Scrap Metal service
Built at NSC Hamilton(?))

AIMX 19284 (AIM based in Montreal
New fleet of gondolas.
Georgetown Ontario CNR train westbound.)

AOK 34277 02-13-10

ATW 1664 01-09-11 (Mill Gon
ATW= Atlantic and Western Railway)

BLE 30029 (2007-10-20.
52 foot Mill gon seen at the Stuart Street Yard in Hamilton ON which at that time was being switched by Railink.)

BLE 30068 (November 13 2015
Paris Jct Ontario)

BLE 30108 (Bessemer-n- Lake Erie is a CN subsidiary acquired in 2004 during the E.Hunter Harrison reign as part of a route around Chicago. During that time CN changed from being Canadian National to Chicago Northern as operations were shifted to Chicago.)

CBMX 10502 Guelph Jct 10-10-14 (Former coal car(?) used for scrap metal hauling.
CMBX = Combined Metal Industries.)

CIGX 802963 (ex-TR 611061 exx-DRHY 1061)

CIGX 802989 (CIGX coil car.
EX CP.
Train 247; Buffalo to Sudbury.)

CIGX 802996 (Train 246 - Sudbury to Buffalo. Steel coils from Sault Ste Marie. Sunday August 5 2018)

CIGX 803032 (This car was seen on a CN not a CP train to Toronto. These cars handle steel from Sault Ste Marie to southern Ontario and the USA. They were routed by Huron Central to Sudbury and CP onwards. Huron Central has been threatening to close without provincial money for track work. CN can handle the traffic through it's Algoma Central subsidiary through OBA.
ex-CP 346496)

CN 136463 (52 foot mill gon in Aldershot yard.
Blt 1971 at CN Point St Charles - Montreal)

CN 137727 (Mill Gon seen at Aldershot Ontario yard.
Blt. 1974 Hawker Siddeley)

CN 138375 (Mill Gon seen at CN Aldershot Yard
Blt 1969 National steel car)

CN 157219 (65 foot open gon. Car blt 1972. Picture November 1997.)

CN Mill gon (It is hard to read the number on this gondola car but the visible load of scrap metal warranted a picture as it rolled through Georgetown on its way to TorMacYar)

COER 801926 (ex-TR 526161 exx-CSXT 491291 (blt 11/1997))

COER 801930 (ex-TR 526256 exx-CSXT 491386)

CP 344765 June 6 2001 (Built 1981.
Fibreglass coil covers.)

CP 346415 06-25-10

CP 346909 01-09-11

cp 386482 8-22-10

CP 417576 Mill Gon - Galt

CP 427000 MILL GON -Galt

CP 428179 02-14-10

D(n)TS 7020. (Picture November 12 2006
Detroit (n) Toledo Shore was jointly owned by GTW and NW. GTW took 100% ownership in 1981.)

DJJX 950964 (David J.Joseph Transportation is the railcar operator of large "recycler" DJJ Company. This car appears to be a former rotary dump coal car now used for hauling scrap metal.)

furx 380673 8-22-10

FURX 380815 (Covered steel coil gondola. Cover is marked BNSF railway but sublettered for FURX cars. Ex Sault Ste Marie on TR 246 Sudbury to Buffalo . Sunday August 5 2018)

GACX 52834 (Sitting in Aldershot Yard loaded with scrap metal.)

GACX 53823 (Mill gon - no information on who renumbered from)

GTW 187504 12-21-14

GTW 187617 (CN 421 (possible) 10-10-20.
Built by National Steel Car 2007)

GTW 187671 2-01-09 (Picture 2009-02-01 at CN "Snake"
Blt 2006 at National Steel Car in Hamilton.
Assigned GTW.)

GTW 187736 03-08-09 (Steel coil gon with full length hood.
Train 435; March 2009)

GTW 187927 (Hooded steel coil gon.
August 15 2016 .
TorMacYar bound train.
Blt NSC - National Steel Car - 2008)

GTW 188077 10-24-10

GTW 188081 (westbound CN freight through Georgetown)

GTW 188101 10-24-10

GTW 188237 - 03-18-22

GTW 307106 (March 28 1997.
Coil Gon with mismatched hoods. Scanned from print.)

gtw 675025 (Copetown Hill February either 2002 or 2004.
After Copetown Train show.)

ic 299661 (2005-10-23
Gondola car for steel.
These are not the correct hoods for this car but seem to be whatever was available in the home shop.
Aldershot Yard.)

IC 299694 10-24-10

ICE 70063 (June 1 2007.
Gondola in coil steel service - no hood.
Was IMRL now LW (same number)
ICE = Dakota Minnesota and eastern by Iowa Chicago and Eastern. Was CP controlled railway.)

ICE 70114 (June 1 2007
Covered Gon for steel coils
previous IMRL now LW same number
ICE = Dakota Minnesota and Eastern by Iowa Chicago Eastern and was a CP mark at the time.)

ICG 245216 (2007-10-20
53 foot mill gon seen in the Hamilton ON Stuart Street Yard being switched by Raillink.)

ICG 299590 (Coil gon without hood or load. November 12 2006)

LRS 166422 3-3-12 (Former NS car.
Thoroughbred Protect III cover.
CN Oakville yard.)

MHFX 5650 Apr 3 -11 (Haz Mat (Dangerous Goods) 3077 placard.
Misc. Dangerous Goods.
MFH Logistical Solutions Inc.)

MP 661864-02-27-2 (MP = Missouri Pacific which was a large midwestern railroad taken over by Union Pacific. The MP reporting mark is still in use. To TorMacYar on CN .)

MWCX 200026 (Loaded with scrap metal, picked up by CP at Guelph Jct., headed west towards London.
MWCX = Midwest Railcar Corp.)

NDYX 381257 (Leasing Company Marks
Wells Fargo Rail Corp.
Formerly First Union Rail, Formerly National Equipment Leasing, Formerly Dresser Leasing.
ex-NOKL 381257)

NKCR 3574 11-01-02 (Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado Railnet Inc)

NOKL 320368 - May 17 2015 (ex-CHTT 286218 exx-CRLE 3318 {Gondola Connection} blt 11/1995)

NOKL 320391 (ex-CHTT 286241 exx-CRLE 3341 {Gondola Connection}(blt 11/1995))

NOKL 382416 08-22-10

NOKL 382420 02-26-11

NS 197690 (ex NW 189685)

NS 200733 (52feet, 6 inches steel floor
EX NW 188137)

NS 201365 (Photo - 07-13-08
ex- TR 527498
exx - NS 195734)

NSAX 8143 (NSAX - National Steel.)

OFOX 964 (Residco.
Car Leasing Company.)

OMNX 118 (Omnisource Corp 52 foot gondola hauls scrap metal. Train CN 331, Pt Robinson to Sarnia. Seen at Copetown)

RMGX 9444 -06-26-12 (The Andersons
Oakville - CN.)

SMW 320459 (52 foot gondola in CN Aldershot yard. SMW is St Marys West Railway.)

SOO 63502 02-26-11

TFM 60481 (2-29-04 at Bayview
TFM is one of the Mexican railways. It is loaded with "slinkies" coils of steel wire. . These are made at a mini steel mill at L'Orignal Ontario near Ottawa. By 04, we no longer had access to CN tracing so don't know if these were export ;oads to Mexico.)

TR 601019 (Open coil steel gon with load. TR = Tomahawk Railway,)

TR 611080 05-02-09 (ex DRHY 1080 blt 10/1999)

UP 249143 10-03-10 (CP Rail September 2010.)

WC 63211 (Similar cars were built in 1972.)

WFRX 380770 (WFRX- Wells Fargo Rail Service.
formerly FURX- First Union Rail Services)

WFRX 380780 (Formerly FURX - First Union Rail acquired by Wells Fargo Rail.
NOKL?)

WTLX 4205 (WT&L Railcar Corp. (Ohio)
Marked for American Steel Processing.
Former coal hopper car?
June 2012.)

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