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Image:CP8139 switches coach 1720 Windsor late 1970s David Othen medium.jpg|[[CPR8139|No. 8139]] switches coach [[DAR001720|No. 1720]] at Windsor in the late 1970s.
 
Image:CP8139 switches coach 1720 Windsor late 1970s David Othen medium.jpg|[[CPR8139|No. 8139]] switches coach [[DAR001720|No. 1720]] at Windsor in the late 1970s.
 
Image:F1000025.jpg|[[CPR8139|No. 8139]] on a westbound wayfreight at Middleton in 1981.
 
Image:F1000025.jpg|[[CPR8139|No. 8139]] on a westbound wayfreight at Middleton in 1981.
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File:DAR - Train Accident B - Engine 8139 - Mantua - HJPhoto - 1June1982.JPG| Engine 8139 derailed on 30th May 1982 due to track issues
 
File:WP 20141001 12 33 56 Pro.jpg| Ex CP engine [[CPR8139|No. 8139]] now RPRX Engine 2003 at Expo Rail in Delson, Quebec. 1st October 2014.
 
File:WP 20141001 12 33 56 Pro.jpg| Ex CP engine [[CPR8139|No. 8139]] now RPRX Engine 2003 at Expo Rail in Delson, Quebec. 1st October 2014.
 
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Revision as of 11:10, 15 April 2018

CPR8139

Built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as SW1200RS, Serial No. A 1739, No. 8139 in 1959. Sold to Alstom in November 2002, then sold to RailPower Technologies. Converted to RailPower Technologies battery powered "Green Kid" demonstrator RPRX No. 2003 in 2003.

Currently Engine 8139 which is now known as RPRX Engine 2003 currently resides at Expo Rail Museum in Delson, Quebec. It is part of the outdoor display near building 5.[1]

Operational Appearances

Staff. "No injuries resulted from CP train derailment" The Halifax Chronicle Herald, June 1, 1982.

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References and Footnotes

  1. Samuel Clark's trip to Expo Rail on 1st October 2014.

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