Caption: CP 1413, 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.