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Windsor and Hantsport Railway FPB-4 6861 is a rather odd sight to behold at the Wainwright Rail Park in Wainwright Alberta. The unit was donated to the rail park by Canadian Pacific in 2000. Supposedly CP traded/acquired several of these units from WHRC to keep the C424 fleet alive in the later years. As for how a CP donated unit winds up in a CN town like Wainwright? I've got nothing on that one.
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Caption: Windsor and Hantsport Railway FPB-4 6861 is a rather odd sight to behold at the Wainwright Rail Park in Wainwright Alberta. The unit was donated to the rail park by Canadian Pacific in 2000. Supposedly CP traded/acquired several of these units from WHRC to keep the C424 fleet alive in the later years. As for how a CP donated unit winds up in a CN town like Wainwright? I've got nothing on that one.

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Matt Watson [704] (more) (contact)
Date: 09/08/2013 (search)
Railway: Windsor and Hantsport (search)
Reporting Marks: WHRC 6861 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Wainwright Rail Park (search)
City/Town: Wainwright (search)
Province: Alberta (search)
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4 Comments
  1. SD70Dude
    October 13, 2021 at 5:42 pm

    Regardless of how it got there, the equipment in Wainwright may not be long for this world, the rail park there is going through a long, slow process of shutting down and disposing of all their equipment. Nothing there is roadworthy anymore (can’t move on its own wheels), which complicates moving the heavier things like this B-unit.

    Did the ex-VIA units that WHRC bought ever make it to Nova Scotia? Or did they just languish in the dead line at one of VIA’s maintenance centres?

  2. MrDan
    July 6, 2025 at 4:13 am

    Anyone know the current status of this unit?

    Apparently WHRC purchased a bunch of units, but most weren’t delivered and resold to CP as parts units, in trade for CP RS23′s. The CN 6765 at CRM/Exporail is, ironically, an ex-WHRC unit that CP acquired and donated to the museum.

  3. Paul O'Shell
    July 15, 2026 at 10:21 pm

    Did not survive
    WHRC 6861 (ex-VIA 6861, nee-CN 6861) FPB-4 built in 1958 was at the defunct Wainwright Rail Park where I snapped it on October 21, 2022 from VIA 001 The Canadian.
    6861 along with all the other locomotives, rolling stock, and Work Equipment once on static display at the Wainwright, AB museum had been gathered together for easy access for the scrapper who would dismantle them on-site.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/197431498@N07/55393237311/in/datetaken/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/197431498@N07/55393368633/in/datetaken/

  4. MrDan
    July 16, 2026 at 4:41 am

    That’s a shame Paul. It also seems like a shame to scrap CN 1404, they could probably get a good price on the market for a rebuilt and modernized switching unit like that.
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