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Certainly brings back memories. 9314 was still operating during the summer of 1967 and I was lucky enough to see it.
Absolutely stunning line up of historic locomotives, especially (need I say it) the Fairbanks-Morse unit! Great photo and correct CNR pain scheme.
WOW 9314. In the summer of 1967 I was working as a brakeman out of Capreol and worked this unit on two trips. The first was on a Sudbury turn bringing back the CP auxiliary which CN used to help clear the Dunrankin collision. We got back after dark. The next morning I headed down to the shops, but the unit was gone! That afternoon I was called for 301 which, at that time, was the long-haul to Hornepayne. We had standard power of C424/GP40. At Foleyet, we picked up two units. Yep an RS-18 and 9314 trailing. Lifted the units ahead of our incoming power and with no MU on the nose of the 9314, we limped all the way to Hornepayne. Never did get a picture of it. Thanks for sharing.
So cn only had two? Assume it was rare to find it.. let alone leading?
Steve: CN had 23 of them, but I worked two separate trips with the 9314. The control stand had a huge broom stick for the throttle; must have been 3 feet long! Fuse on back wall said “mystery fuse, when fuse fails scrap unit”.
Ha wow!
Steve, by the mid-late 60′s CN was retiring their FM/CLC fleet, so their numbers were dwindling. I think they went to Pointe St. Charles to get their major components salvaged (engine, MG, TM’s etc – the FM opposed-piston engines were popular in marine use), and the carbodies sent out for scrapping to places like the London reclamation yard.
One (CN 9344) was even sold to CP and sent to Ogden for rebuilding wrecked CP C-liner 4054, but the work was never done and CP scrapped both.
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