Caption: On the E&N on Vancouver Island, a single RDC was normal for passenger service from Victoria to Courtenay and return daily except Sunday, with exchanges for mainland cars occasionally required to handle heavy maintenance needs such as truck exchanges. Such a transition is shown on Thursday 1973-05-03, with CP 9199 having just arrived on the shoptrack off No. 2 from Courtenay and CP 9105 from Calgary after arriving dead in transit on early morning freight No. 52. The next day, No. 1 was run with CP 9105, and CP 9199 went dead in transit on freight No. 51 to the mainland barge connection from Nanaimo. The reverse transition took place on 1973-05-29 and -30.

This photo provides a comparison of the National Research Council experiment with a revolving beacon over the twin-sealed-beam headlight on CP 9199 and the standard Pyle Gyralite on CP 9105. For me, the Gyralite was the more effective for conspicuity, and when the beacon was removed on CP 9199 on 1975-01-05, I was quite happy to return to the need to relocate the Gyralite from the south end to the north each evening after No. 2 had arrived.