ACR (Class FP9A and F9B)
CN 6514 (VIA 6514 / AC 1753) and 6614
(VIA 6614 /AC 1762) were donated to The Alberta Railway Museum which
runs some locomotive hauled excursion trains per year out of Edmonton, Alberta.
AMT/STCUM (Class FP7A)
AMT (Agence Métropolitaine de Transport)/STCUM is the commuter railway company of Montreal. It owns 7 Class FP7A locomotives
(Co'Co', 16-567B engine equiped, GM built (1951, 1952) locomotives, numbered AMT/STCUM 1300 - 1306). The operation of
the bulldog locomotives AMT/STCUM 1301 - 1306 (AMT/STCUM 1300 stands non-operational in Montreal) between Montreal
Windsor and Rigaud could well have been ended in 2002 as the new F59PHI locomotives would take over their duties.
Walled Lake Scenic RR in Michigan is now out-of-business and it seems everything is up for sale including former
AMT/STCUM FP7A’s 1304 and 1306, the latter painted in the AMT’s short-lived “Riverain” paint scheme, and had been
stored at Expo Rail, in Delson, QC when AMT retired their roundnoses.
Canadian National (Class E9A)
Canadian National has repainted E9A No. 102 in a variation of its classic green-and-black 1950s paint scheme with “Canadian National” spelled out on the sides and the
classic Maple Leaf logo on the nose. The unit, which was repainted at CN’s Woodcrest Shop in Homewood,
made its debut on a business train inspecting the Winnipeg–Chicago corridor April 16-18 2014. It is one of four operational former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy E units CN inherited when it acquired Illinois Central
in 1999, Nos. 100-103. No. 103 is in the red, white, and black CN color scheme. Nos. 100-101 still wear their monochrome silver, black, and white scheme IC colors. Source: TRAINS.
Canadian Pacific Railway (Class FP7A)
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), one of the two largest freight railway companies in Canada, offer luxury train tours
around Calgary. These trains were originally pulled by the now defunct FP7Au CP 1400 (ex-VIA 6550) and the still operational FP9A CP 1401 (ex-VIA 6541)
(both built in 1953) and trailing cabless
F9B CP 1900 (built in 1955, ex-VIA 6612) locomotives which all three have been painted maroon-and-gray. The honours are currently
done by FP9A CP 1401 (now with a 16-645E prime mover and with an electril system similar to the CP GP20C-ECO locomotives, CP 4106 (ex-VIA FP9-2 6307) and CP 4107 (ex-VIA FP9-2 6313) which were bought from Ohio Central in 2006, re-equipped with
dynamic brakes and are head end power equipped. Also F9B 1900 can de used. They are painted with the "script" style lettering used by CP in the
early 1960s with CP's classic "Beaver" shields added.
You can find more information about the CPR trains on the Royal Canadian Pacific site.
Ontario Northland Railway (Class FP7A)
The Ontario Northland Railway (ONR) operates both freight and passenger ('Polar Bear Express') services on its 186 miles main line from Cochrane to Moosonee. Nowadays GP38-2s form the traction.
The ONR 'Northlander' passenger train from Toronto to Cochrane, for which three roundnoses were used in the past, was discontinued in 2012. The Ontario Northland Railway owns
three 1951 - 1953 GM built Class FP7A locomotives (out of Co'Co', 16-567B engine equiped) which were rebuilt with 2,075 hp Caterpillar 3516 engines and renumbered 2000 - 2002 (original numbers are 1502, 1509 resp.
1521). Since week 16, 2004 Ontario Northland Railway (ONR) has taken it's FP7A 2001 and 2002 out of service. The third FP7A, numbered 2000, was still in service in March 2012, but is probably not used anymore.
The remaining other, original ONR FP7A locomotives, have been taken out of service as well and stand in North Bay (ONR 1501, 1508, 1518 and 1520). ONR also owns
four rebuilt F7A and F7B/F9B cabless locomotives (numbered 202 - 205), three bought from the Milwaukee Road and one from GO Transit (an ex-Northern Pacific F7B).
You can find the timetable of the ONR trains on the Ontario Northland Railway site and the latest news on an
ONR List group on the Ontario Northland Railway List.
Ontario Southland Railway (Class FP9A)
Ontario Southland Railway has acquired three EMD FP9s for freight service (between Woodstock, Ingersoll, St. Thomas and Tillsonburg) in the end of 2012. The southern Ontario short line operates 73 miles of former Canadian Pacific track with an
eclectic mix of Montreal Locomotive Works and EMD power. The first FP9 to arrive (and operate) on Ontario Southland was former Waterloo & St. Jacobs Railway WSJR 6508 (an FP9A built in 1954).
The other two FP9As, Nos. 1400 and 1401 with RLK reporting marks and Railink lettering, are former RailAmerica locomotives assigned to the Goderich & Exeter
Railway in southern Ontario. Locomotive 1400 is currently stored in Goderich and will receive minor repairs to its draft gear which will enable it to be moved.
All three FP9s are former Canadian National locomotives, transferred to VIA Rail Canada in 1978, who rebuilt and upgraded them to Dash 2 specs in 1984.
Ontario Southland is the only remaining railroad in Canada to have roundnoses in freight service with 1401 and 6508 now in service on the Guelph Junction Railway.
The Guelph Junction Railway is operated by Ontario Southland under contract for the City of Guelph who owns the railway (which runs from Guelph to Goderich).
Monday through Friday the Woodstock job starts at Salford at 10:00 hours. It runs to Ingersoll, where it shunts, before serving the fertilizer plant in Putnam and the General Motors Cami Plant in Ingersoll.
Therafter, the train runs back to Woodstock (interchange with CP) and drives back to Ingersoll before it heads back to Salford. The second job is the St. Thomas one. It starts at Salford at 08:30 hours to take just the
locomotives to Ingersoll, where it shunts and continues to the Putnam fertilizer plant. Next on the plan is shunting in St. Thomas (Messenger Freight Systems and Factor Gas) and interchanging with CN and GIO Rail. The third job concerns
serving the branch to Tilsonburg on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Source: TRAINS.
Orford Express (Class FL9)
In the end of 2012, Orford Express dinner train, which is based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, expanded its roster with ex-New Haven FL9 2009
(now numbered 484) from Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.
VIA Rail Canada (Class FP9A)
All the remaining VIA Rail Canada FP9A-units have been withdrawn from regular service on 12 January 2002. They are stabled in Montreal (VIA 6301, 6307 -
6309, 6311, 6313) and Winnipeg (VIA 6300, 6302, 6304). New P42DC locomotives have replaced the aging GM 1957 and 1958 built locomotives.
Loco VIA 6300 is kept for shunting duties in Vancouver, BC. Via has put 6301 and 6309 up for sale on its website.
Preserved Canadian bulldog nose locomotives In the state of British Columbia:
British Columbia Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society:
This group is repainting the operational ex-VIA 6300 unit to a generic cream and royal blue at a warehouse in New Westminster, B.C., where it is stored along with several vintage passenger cars,
The Province newspaper reports. VIA 6300 was retained by the railroad as the shop switcher for its Vancouver Maintenance Center until it was donated to the NRHS group.
Locomotive 6300 is an FP9 built for Canadian National in April 1957 as 6524. It was transferred to VIA in March 1978. In 1983 Canadian National remanufactured it at its Pointe St. Charles shop
in Montreal and it was renumbered VIA 6300. The unit was the only locomotive rebuilt following a head-on collision between VIA’s Super Continental/Skeena and a Canadian National freight train on Feb. 8, 1986
near Hinton, Alberta, which killed 23 people. The smashed front end of 6300 was replaced using the nose and cab from Kansas City Southern F7A 4062.Source: TRAINS.
West Coast Railway Association:
West Coast Railway Association has three F-type locos: FP7-A CP 4069 (ex-CP 4069),
F7-A CP 1404 (ex-Algoma Central 1756, ex-CP 4103) and F7-B CP 4459. 4069 in particular, and also AC 1756 to a lesser
extent, are used on tour trains. 4069 runs every summer in northern British Columbia out of Prince Rupert, providing
tourist service to cruise ships.
In the state of Ontario:
Waterloo-St. Jacobs Railway:
The Waterloo Central Railway has run diesel-powered excursions
between Waterloo and St. Jacobs, west of Toronto, but is currently out of service.
There also were occasional excursions to Elmira, 16 km from Waterloo. The railway has one ex-Canadian National/VIA FP9A GM bulldog locomotive,
6520, built in 1957. The locomotive has an old green-black-and-gold livery. At last report the locomotive has been moved
to storage at VIA's Maintenance Center in Toronto. The St. Thomas, Ontario-based Southern Ontario Locomotive
Restoration Society (SOLRS) was aiming to re-establish a tourist train service that would operate on Thursdays and
weekends from June 2007 until December 2007 between Waterloo and the village of St. Jacobs on the Waterloo Spur.
The operation would be named the Waterloo Central Railway. The former Waterloo-St. Jacobs Railway operated on the
spur from 1997 to 1999 before it was shut down due to declining business. The line was eventually sold to the Region
of Waterloo, who then contracted CN to maintain the spur. Currently, the Goderich & Exeter operates on the spur,
servicing two large chemical companies in Elmira as well as industries in Waterloo and St. Jacobs.
FP9A 1750 and F9B 1761 were sold by the Keokuk Junction Railway in 2021 to Gary Southgate, a farmer of Battleford, Saskatchewan, who
wants to create a Super Continental (Canadian National’s transcontinental train) from 1954 to the late 1970s and he hopes to assemble a railroad museum in the Canadian province.
He also onws FP9 6304 (ex-VIA) and FP9 6311 (ex-VIA), which are currently stored at the Alberta Railway Museum. All locomotives will be painted back to the Canadian National green
and black paint scheme of 1954 and 1955.
