WELLAND, Ontario — A Canadian National “funeral train” of 18 Dash 8 locomotives, part of an auction and sale in June 2023, arrived in Welland, Ont, on July 29, concluding a trip from Iowa. The locomotives will be handed off to the GIO Rail Trillium operation, which will deliver them to SLM Recycling of Welland. Two years ago, K&K Recycling scrapped more than 30 Dash 8s at a different site in Welland. Number boards, horns and bells had largely been removed before the locomotives were shipped east. Included in the move were CN Nos. 2180, 2444, 2434, 2431, 2432, 2036, 2402, 2037, 2005, 2003, 2008, 2424, 2019, and 2038; British Columbia Railway Nos. 4620, 4619, and 4623; and Illinois Central No. 2462. — Stephen C. Host
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