28 April 2007
The New Adventures of Old FP9A
Click on the first photo to enlarge it.
Canadian
Pacific Railway has purchased two units from the Ohio Central Railroad to operate their Royal Canadian Pacific tour
train. They have been numbered 4106 and 4107 and painted in the old "script" style corporate logo by the
National Railway Equipment Company located in Capreol, Ontario. The exception to this classic style being the lack
of a Beaver herald on the nose plus the addition of reflective yellow stripes along the bottom of the units. Recent
federal railroad regulations now require reflectorized markings be applied to all equipment. Hopefully, the old
corporate Beaver will be applied to the nose, but I don't see any space provided for it.
Previous reporting marks on these units were CN 6515-6526, VIA 6307-6313, and OHCR 6307-6313. Somewhere in their
history these General Motors Electro Motive Division models were rebuilt. The "FP9Au" designation would be
a fitting way to describe them now.
They left Ohio sometime in June of 2006 to be delivered to NRE at Capreol. James Lalande found and photographed CP
4107 on 28 Apr 2007 resting outside the NRE shops there.
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