CASCO Canada Starch Co. Ltd.

Looking for all the world like a small shortline of old is this scene of No. 6 with its train on the two mile run
between Cardinal and the CNR mainline. June 10, 1971 David M. More

First Canada Starch diesel, No.6 GE 65-ton #29061 6/47. Oliver Mc.Kee
Sold through Paikin (D) 1977 to U.S.Metals & Refining 5, Carteret, N.J.

No.7, acq. c.6/78.(ex CN 8018) MLW S4 #77598 9/52. August 25, 1977. Bob Heathorn
Retired 1987, sold 1990, Hull, Chelsea & Wakefield (stillborn tourist RR). Scrapped.

SGPX 8 (ex CASCO 8) at Paikin (D) in Hamilton Apr. 89. GE 80-ton #33716 12/59 Gord Strathdee

Unit was built new for Kimberly-Clarke in Terrace Bay. November 1985 it became Spruce Falls Power & Paper 106 (2nd) and went to CASCO 5/87 until 2/89. It was finally sold in 1993 to ABB Canada in Varennes, Que.

 

CASCO #9, acq. 1989 (ex CN 7162) GMD SW8 A192 3/51 Cardinal, March 23, 1999. Gord Strathdee

9/2001 to Andrew Merrilees (D), 2002, to National Gypsum Canada Ltd. 507, Milford Station, Nova Scotia.

CASCO NJ 1548 acq. 2001. ALCO RS-3 (re-eng. 1200hp EMD) #80234 3/53 Cardinal, August 8, 2001
Gord Strathdee

Ex Southern Railroad of New Jersey 1548, ex West Shore Short Line 93,
ex CR 9937, 5378, nee CNJ 1548