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For most eastern folks, CN 4414 (or any of the heavy GP9's) is/was something all to familiar. In Redwater AB, it was an oddity. In just over a week it made 3 round trips through town. In this photo (trip No.3), the cab hop was made into a train by picking up 5 empty hoppers out of the Egremont siding. The cab has been tacked back on and it's off to somewhere north for 4 days.
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Caption: For most eastern folks, CN 4414 (or any of the heavy GP9's) is/was something all to familiar. In Redwater AB, it was an oddity. In just over a week it made 3 round trips through town. In this photo (trip No.3), the cab hop was made into a train by picking up 5 empty hoppers out of the Egremont siding. The cab has been tacked back on and it's off to somewhere north for 4 days.

Photographer:
Parks [333] (more) (contact)
Date: 07/02/1985 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 4414 (search)
Train Symbol: Work Extra (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Lac La Biche Sub. (search)
City/Town: Egremont (search)
Province: Alberta (search)
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2 Comments
  1. Stephen C. Host
    July 9, 2026 at 4:41 pm

    As nature intended, long hood forward

  2. MrDan
    July 9, 2026 at 6:48 pm

    Those Blomberg B trucks apparently added an extra 6,000 lbs of weight to the units over Flexicoils. That and smaller fuel tanks/lower fuel capacity made up some of the difference for light rail branchline service (not sure if they had any extra ballasting weight or not, but it seems likely given the 248k vs 231k weight difference).
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