Caption: Having just arrived on VIA's Super Continental, I noticed several BN units in the yard adjacent to what is now the Pacific Central station (at the time, the CN station and site of local offices--the station not yet having been conveyed to VIA; VIA had only officially become its own crown corporation on April 1st). The NW5 is one of only 13 built, 10 for Great Northern...EMD's answer to Alco's RS1 and a predecessor of our own GMD1s. The freight shed in the background is part of former GN facilities in central Vancouver including, until the mid-1960s, it's own station.