Winnipeg Manitoba - The G5s have arrived in Winnipeg.
 
The attached photo was taken as they made their way through St. Boniface heading to the Canadian Pacific yard.
 
The two locomotives were once owned by Jack Showalter (deceased 12 Nov 2014) who purchased them in 1974 and lettered them for the Virginia Central Railroad.

By 1975 with volunteers he began regular excursions with the locomotives that brought thousands of tourists to western Virginia.
 
After 1992 he operated a number of mainline excursions between Charlottesville, Staunton, Clifton Forge, and Gordonsville, Virginia.
 
Ten years later the engines were relocated to Western Maryland where they ran on a tourist line between Cumberland and Frostburg, Maryland.
 
The locomotives remained idle after 2004 until his death.
 
Purchased by an unnamed Albertan in Canada they departed Staunton, Virginia, USA, loaded aboard flatcars about 23 Jul 2015 bound for Canada.
 
The plan is to store them at the Prairie Dog Central shops near Inkster Boulevard.
 
Apparently they have been moving as a "dimension special", or "high-wide trains", which are not run very often consequently this accounts for the long transit time in reaching Winnipeg.
 
William Slim.