Comments on: During one of my many trips through I detoured off the highway & over to the rail yards. This time spotted CN 4609 sitting there. I knew that this was an old NAR unit by it’s colors, & I knew that it was a rare site in the Kelowna area so I took 4 photographs of it. Three from ground level, & this one from the top of a little hill. How long it stayed in BC or on CN’s roster I have no idea, but it’s name means more today then it did then.

By: Extra 1014

Extra 1014 — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:37:58 +0000

I always enjoyed photographing this engine as it passed through Redwater on it’s way to Fort McMurray. What a great idea the NAR had personalizing their fleet with names.

By: james booth

james booth — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:43:33 +0000

MrDan Thanks for your reply. Of the 4 ex-NAR locomotives rebuilt as GP9RM’s I managed to photograph 3 of them in Lloydminster AB a few years back. Watching them jump, & pull was a joy.

By: MrDan

MrDan — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 08:48:21 +0000

It only had two more years to go like that: CN would rebuild her as slug 259 in 1990. Most of the ex-NAR GP9′s ended up as slugs (only 4 rebuilt as GP9RM’s).