Caption: At CP’s E&N Victoria shops, when the Monday-Saturday 0600 yard crew was finished for a day, they parked their unit on the fuel stand for shop personnel to service then run into the roundhouse for overnight. On Thursday 1973-06-21, that is what led to this pose of Baldwin DRS4-4-1000 CP 8000 when I came on shift at 1600. Note the carshop on the right of the photo has had its many-panes glass windows replaced with translucent fibreglass panels, for greater resistance to breakage. Note also the little yellow funnel hanging on the sandhouse near the sand hose, specifically for hooking into a Baldwin’s sandbox opening to guide the flow in. 1949 technology!

This was only nine days after the head-on collision of four Baldwins up-island north of South Wellington, so 8000 was then the first of only eight roadswitchers. Happily, it is now under detailed cosmetic restoration at the Railway Museum of British Columbia in Squamish.