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CPR8136
CPR8136
Built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as SW1200RS, Serial No. A 1736, No. 8136 in 1959. Converted by CP to Yard Control Unit No. 1156 in 2003. Scrapped at SLM Recycling, Welland, ON, 2013. (1)
Operational Appearances
Gallery
No. 8136 in front of Windsor Water Tower leading Train No. 22 from Truro in August 1959.
Midland train arrives at CPR station, Windsor in August 1959.
Midland Division mixed Train No. 22 arrives from Truro led by engine No. 8136, between freight and passenger stations, Windsor, NS in August 1959.
Passengers from Midland train led by No. 8136 wait for Dayliner from Halifax. Note freight house and station at Windsor in August 1959.
Kentville engine servicing facilities on July 20, 1967. Visable is the Kentville Coaling Tower, Engine No. 8136 and the Kentville Roundhouse.
No. 8136 at the Kentville Car Shop circa 1972.
No. 8136 parked on one of the Kentville Car Shop tracks.
No. 8136, No. 8138 and van No. 436617 with the freight shed being removed in June 1974.
No. 8136 leads the mixed train at Stanley Airport on May 24, 1975.
No. 8136 and two sisters at the Kentville Car Shop on July 7, 1979.
No. 8136 at the Kentville Car Shop.
No. 8136 at Yarmouth Rail Yard on May 19, 1975.
References and Footnotes
1. Canadian Railway Observations, November 2013. "CP units Retired"
External Links
- Pictorial Roster at Mountain Railway dot com
- No. 8136 at Windsor in 1976 (bottom of page).
