Caption: More first-generation MLW power stored at CP Rail's St. Luc Yard during the mid-70's traffic downtown: CP RS3 units 8432, 8439, 8451 and 8435 sit together near the diesel shop area with most of their stacks capped, near the deadlines of other 244-powered MLW units mothballed by the coal tower at St. Luc Yard. 8435, stack uncapped, may be moving the other units around the shop area.

The FA/FB fleet would not return back to service, but many of the stored RS3 and RS10 units would when traffic picked up. 8432, 8435 and 8439 would all get chop-noses for yard and hump service duties and last a few more years in service (8435 was leased to the D&H in 1976 prior to that), while 8451 would be unceremoniously retired and scrapped with many of the other parked 244-powered MLWs (one chop-nosed unit, 8427, was later resold to Crown Zellerbach and survives today).

Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.