Comments on: Canadian Pacific C424 4200 (the former CP 8300) is pictured still sporting her faded maroon & grey script livery, with CP GP35 5006 on the head end of a freight at Bolton on March 25th 1972. As an initial one-unit sample order, CP’s first C424 (and the first C424 ever built by MLW or Alco) had a few differences from other CP units, including the fuel tank, dynamic brake hatch, rear radiator style, hood details, battery boxes around the cab, deck-mounted stanchions, and a higher-mounted headlight that was originally on the flat plate of the cab (4201-4209 were also delivered with high-mount headlights, but units 4210 and over had it on the nose). In the mid-late 60′s, the early units with high headlights all had them relocated to the nose, as seen here.

By: Driver8666

Driver8666 — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:27:11 +0000

I just can’t get over the fact that it was all painted on, not like today where you have decals.

Marcus Stevens — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:29:10 +0000

A classic unit with history that should have been saved.