Caption: Hoisting a locomotive on jacks to allow a truck to be moved out for a traction motor change was a regular work procedure at the CP/E&N backshop in Victoria, but the pictured one of Baldwin CP 8001 on Saturday 1975-03-01 carries special significance. Just ten days later came instructions to shut down all CP Baldwin roadswitchers (seven remaining of the original thirteen after various mishaps) after twenty-six years of being maintained in that shop, so 8001 was the last to ride those jacks.

As a three-year employee there at that time, that hurt, and I often wondered what the longer-service folks (some of them well over half their careers) felt.