Comments on: From Alyth yard in Calgary, CP ran a Princess Turn eastward 75.7 miles on the Brooks sub. mainline to Bassano then eastward 41.7 miles on the Bassano sub. to an oil loadout at Princess. On Wednesday 1974-10-02, that job was running as timetable train No. 96 with a pair of GP35s, 5004 and 5014, as it passed milepost 125 near the grain elevators at Gleichen, with 27.2 miles to reach the junction at Bassano. In my ignorance, assuming a turbocharged GM was an SD40, those similar-sounding GP35s were entered into my notebook as 5504 and 5514, with that error not corrected until I got my slides back from that trip! If only I had known those units would be my exasperating work when they were assigned to CP’s (Port) Coquitlam locomotive facility ten years hence. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:08:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Marcus Stevens http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=53189#comment-59020 Marcus Stevens Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:04:07 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1974-10-02_no-96-eng-cp5004+5014-princess-turn-at-gleichen-ab_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1920x1283-pixels.jpeg#comment-59020 Fantastic image! Fantastic image!

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