WINNIPEG - "The old lady who has been sitting in front of the CPR station for the last 24 years is losing her shape", said a special story in the daily Tribune here, based on Canadian Pacific's veteran locomotive "Countess of Dufferin".

"The Countess is at least 94-years-old. After working for the Northern Pacific Railway for five years, she was brought to Winnipeg in 1877, on a barge which was towed up the Red River from St. Paul, Minnesota. In a letter to Winnipeg's Mayor Stephen Juba, the Vice-President of the CPR's Prairie Region, D.M. Dunlop, warned the city, which owns the Countess, that she is about ready for the scrap heap."

New 3,000-hp Diesels Joining Operations

LONDON - The first of 65 new 3,000 horsepower, high speed freight locomotives was delivered to the Company here recently. L.R. Smith, Vice-President, Eastern Region, accepted the unit from officials of General Motors Diesel, Ltd.

The remainder of the order will be delivered by GM over the next year at a cost of approximately $22,500,000.

The Long and Short of it All

VICTORIA - Securely lashed to one of the Company's depressed centre flat cars is a 52-foot ammonia condenser ready for delivery to the Simplot Chemical Company at Brandon, Manitoba.

Constructed by Victoria Machinery Depot Company Ltd., here the 330,000-pound condenser, one of the largest produced by VMD, made the long haul from the Pacific coast to its Prairie destination in seven days.