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On CN A450 today

GO 201 on delivery back to Toronto on CN A450.

Seems as though there were no major injuries.

A Barrie Line GO Train collided with a semi truck earlier today (haven't heard of any injuries) Not my picture but here is the damage to the cab car.

So looking at some old articles, this one says here that the Series 7 cars Alstom in Thunder Bay are refurbishing were supposed to start being delivered back to GO in 2023. Yet I have not heard nor seen of any them being delivered back to GO, guessing the struggles at the plant have slowed down...

And maybe this is the way GO would finally be able to retire them from regular passenger runs without having to completely withdraw them from the fleet. I mean with 27 to 53 locomotives on the way, that would make the F59s fairly redundant on passenger runs.

Here's a random theory I've seen being floated around. Perhaps the F59s will be overhauled to do MOW work, since GO will start dispatching work trains out of the Obico yard, and they probably will need locomotives to run those trains.

It being right next to the Series X cab car really just shows how the BiLevel has evolved over the years

I'm assuming the F59 overhaul will have them be closer spec wise to what WCE's F59 is like.

Makes sense. Just to note though GO has 91 locomotives, 83 MPI units + the 8 F59s.

So now the question becomes, if GO were to get all 53 locomotives, where would they get all the cab cars necessary to run with them?

If the F59s are getting rebuilt, I really doubt that GO would replace the MP40s any time soon.

Considering the new livery is the current branding for GO, I would really be surprised if they didn't repaint them.

I’m guessing this is going to be a new procedure? Using the old cab cars as mid set coaches on 10 car weekdays trips and then splitting off the consists to become 6 car consists with them leading on weekends?

So it seems from this listing the initial order of 13 with a potential 33 has now been updated to 27 with a potential for 53

And also F59 locomotive overhaul

Been that way since it was delivered

Yes I saw another one not attached to it but didn’t see the number

Yep. Remains to be seen.

Supposedly GO has started putting some of them into the commissioning phase however that remains to be seen.