CP 1526 and 1538 were seen today in Chase BC on the way to the scrapper.
These units were 57 years old, having been built in 1955. They were built as 8503 and 8521 respectively, as Steam Generator equipped GP9’s. Known unofficially as “Torpedo Tube” Geeps, their air reservoir tanks were mounted on the roof to allow room for a water tank for the S/G and a larger fuel tank for Passenger service, to be mounted underneath the frame.
They were only officially retired within the last month.
http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208503-2.htm
http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208521-2.htm
Note the steam style headlight, coupled with one of the earliest applications of ditch lights on a CP unit. The legal requirement for same would only have come down a few months earlier, after a wreck at Spences Bridge, BC.
Bruce