Fairbanks Morse designed and built the Trainmasters, H-Liners, and C-Liners. CLC built them under contract for CP. CLC also built the Baldwin DRS4410’s and DS4410’s under contract with Baldwin Locomotive Works for CP.
CN had, at one time, a fairly lugrative operation, and was major competition for the E&N Railway, especially in the Lake Cowichan area. For a while in the 1960’s CN had four GE Centrecabs here at the same time CP was using the No.15 to handle the switching around Victoria. CN had three in Victoria and one at Cowichan Bay to work the barge slip. 44-tonner No.3 was located at Cowichan Bay, 44-tonners 4 and 5 and 80-tonner 74 were based out of CN’s Point Ellice yard in Victoria West, CN also used no.5 or no.74 out at Ogden Point. From 1965 to 1990 traffic on the CNR line declined harshly.
Check out my website on the CNR on Vancouver Island, at http://www.geocities.com/enrailway
Dear Sirs,
As I recall, there was a Photo in Adolf Hungry Wolf’s 1979 Book ‘Rails in the Canadian Rockies’ of the Ex-CP DT2 Switching at Coleman Collieries back in the Seventies.