It's the Jibberish Railroad. They must have been leasing locomotives in Canada.
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It's had doors from other locos on it...the other locos musn't have had Canadian Pacific written in exactly the same place.
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I suppose that once the manufacturer has gotten out of the locomotive market, it's necessary to swap and steal parts between locos.
Matthew
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| Posted by CLC Fan on October 8, 2006 | |
This unit had about 1 year of life left before widescale FM/CLC scrapping in June 1975. Parts were taken off other scrapped units up until that date.
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When I was much younger in 1968 I worked as a brakeman out of Revelstoke, BC. Occasionally FMs from the Cranbrook Division found their way up to our division. We all hated them!!! They were awkward to work from. Look at those steep, shin-banging steps. The windows were ridiculously narrow. But, what really drove us nuts was their absolute unreliability. We were lucky if we ever got home. Sure, they had an interesting dual crankshaft, valveless engine that apparently worked OK in submarines in WW II, but it's a drag when half your units crap out struggling up the hill to Glacier in 1968. Only the legendary cheapness of the CPR kept them from the scrappers' torches.
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