Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) 2270 - Rebuilt EMD GP20C-ECO

CP switchers wait for Train 255 to arrive before heading east.

Big blue sky shot of CP Welland yard looking West from Lambert Street.

CP Welland yard had just these two yard switchers idling.

CP 2270 at Toronto

CP 2270 Talk about your identical twins!

CP yard switcher action at Welland yard, and a couple of GEEP portraits.

CP Welland yard switcher action.

The CP freight transfer has arrived at Welland yard, and parks outside the yard office.

I chased the CP freight transfer into west Welland, and got a few more pics as the train entered Welland yard. Here, the train has just crossed Phillips Road at the east yard entrance.

I chased the CP freight transfer into west Welland, and got a few more pics as the train entered Welland yard.

I chased the CP freight transfer westward, and got a few more pics as the train entered Welland yard.

CP freight transfer hits the Yager Wye shortly after leaving CN Southern yard.

CP freight transfer hits the Yager Wye shortly after leaving CN Southern yard with a small but busy 11 car consist including a box car, 2 grain hoppers, 6 tank cars, another hopper, and a trailing gondola.

CP freight transfer hits the Yager Wye shortly after leaving CN Southern yard - with a small but busy 11 car consist including a box car, 2 grain hoppers, 6 tank cars, another hopper, and a trailing gondola.

Working behind a string of autoracks at CP Welland yard are today's GEEP switcher duo #2269 and sister 2270.

Great big blue sky of CP Welland yard looking west.

I didn't realize it when I photographed these two locos working at Welland yard in the morning, that I would catch them again, mid-afternoon, on a run to CN Southern yard and back.

Big blue sky shot looking west across the CP Welland yard.

A couple of shots from Lambert Street at CP yard/transfer duo basking in the sunshine.

Going...going...

CP/CN freight transfer returns empty-handed from CN Southern yard.

CP/CN freight transfer on the Brookfield connector track. It's not often you get the moon in a sunny day shot, but there it is!

CP/CN freight transfer returns empty-handed from CN Southern yard.

CP/CN freight transfer returns empty-handed from CN Southern yard.

CP 2270 leads CP T15 on the CP North Toronto sub

CP yard switchers haul a single box car onto the inner yard tracks.

CP switchers rest outside the yard office.

Sparkling sunshine lights up CP yard switchers hustling a long string of cars back into the Welland yard. DAMN WEEDS!

One last look at my Train of the Month.

CP yard switchers shuffle empty autoracks into the Welland yard.

I didn't expect to see this train again, but when I saw it came to a slow stop well east of the yard, I zipped over and was just in time to see it cross Phillips Road and enter the CP Welland yard.

Crisp look at today's freight transfer locos.

CP yard switchers pull a long string of autoracks into the Welland yard.

The CP yard switchers have snagged a long string of empty autoracks for a move to Welland yard. Here, at Feeder Road, there is a small opening for service vehicles that provides a fine vantage point to see the CP trains, and the occasional CN or Trillium train.

The two CP switchers have finally arrived to couple onto the empty autoracks, and haul them up to Welland yard.

The two locos are now on the storage track, approaching the empty autorack consist.

After readying the empty autorack train, the power duo has rolled back under the Welland Canal, all the way to Feeder Road, to switch onto the storage track. The empty autoracks are still back at Miller Road.

I patiently waited for the two CP switchers at Miller Road, but the locomotive duo stopped adjacent to the end of a long string of empty autoracks that have been stored for months. It was here I realized that the crew was about to move these cars, and were releasing the brakes to get the train moving. On the left a brand new natural gas pipeline is being installed.

I first caught these two CP yard switchers heading east out of the Welland yard, and figured they were doing their daily move over to CN Southern yard. But that was not where they were going...

CP/CN freight transfer leans hard into the Yager wye on the CN Stamford Sub.

CP/CN freight transfer, fresh out of CN Southern yard with one hopper and nine tank cars, rolls over the CP Hamilton Sub. 15 minutes from now this train will be on the CP tracks headed back to Welland yard, after looping around the Brookfield connector track.

CP switchers wait for Train 255 to arrive before heading east.

Big blue sky shot of CP Welland yard looking West from Lambert Street.

CP Welland yard had just these two yard switchers idling near the yard office.

One last look at CP/CN freight transfer, approaching the east end of the CP Welland yard.

With #3134 now in the lead, CP/CN freight transfer leans into the wye at Yager, after snagging a handful of cars at CN Southern yard.

Another gloomy December day has me chasing these two fine GEEP rebuilds. First, I caught the two engines running light from Welland yard over to CP Southern yard, then on the return trip with a string of mixed freight cars.

All is quiet at CP Welland yard on Boxing Day 2020.

It's even quieter at the normally active CP Lambert Street yard, where two lowly yard engines quietly rumble, with nothing in the order book on this the day after Christmas.

CP 2270