Comments on: CP1413, an FP9A with icicle breakers to protect dome cars in BC’s Kicking Horse Pass spiral tunnels, was a lot more likely to appear on “the Canadian” than Montreal to Quebec City passenger services. Here it is seen during its station stop in Trois-Rivieres QC, westbound to Montreal, on a warm early Spring morning in 1971. Not many months later locomotive-hauled passenger trains would more-or-less disappear from this line, replaced by RDC Dayliners. The styling of the EMD E and F units is widely recognized and admired. Perhaps the engineer and crew would prefer a forward window view that was not slanted. It’s also a bit of a climb into and out of the cab. More operationally friendly designs would follow, but this is the classic diesel locomotive face. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sat, 02 May 2026 18:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jp4pix http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=36206#comment-31133 jp4pix Wed, 23 Jan 2019 22:09:49 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cp1413_TroisRivieresQC_1971_Rhalf_rpca+.jpg#comment-31133 Correction: CP1413 is facing south (timetable west) at T-R station, so this has to be an afternoon picture, on a spring thaw day - probably March or April 1971. Photographer was Brian P. Image scan, caption, etc by John P. Correction: CP1413 is facing south (timetable west) at T-R station, so this has to be an afternoon picture, on a spring thaw day – probably March or April 1971. Photographer was Brian P. Image scan, caption, etc by John P.

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