Last run for switchers fromSmurfit-Stone Portage du fort QUEBEC

[stuart_canada]

Ottawa Central is now doing the yard switcher there as required and the company owned units are making a final trip to Ottawa for unknown long term storage or ?
they are suppose toleave tomorrow after they do switching at the mill.
anyone interested?

 

[stuart_canada]

Ottawa Central took over plant switching in the Smurfit-Stone pulp mill at Portage Du Fort Qubec.
Location to give more of a location, former CN line from Ottawa Ontario to Pembroke, Ontario, along the Beachburg Sub.
History of the mill locomotives
Stone Consolidated Originally Bathurst Power and Paper, then Consolidated Bathurst.
2 Alco 73586 9 1945 S-1 [n] Louisville & Nashville #24;
Consolidated Bathurst #2, 3/1969;
Stone Consolidated #2, Portage du Fort,
Stone Consolidated #3, 1989.
4 EMD 23461 9 1959 SW900 (n) RI #512 (EMD model SW, s/n 664), 3/1938;
(2) RI #911;
http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/stuart_chowchows/album?.dir=/6b7dre2
Switchers left at track speed over 25 miles a hours to Walkley Yards in Ottawa. I do not know what the next stop for the switchers is going to be.