Caption: CP GP35 5002, ALCO RS27 901 and CP FPA2 4083 handle a freight on the Belleville Sub at Darlington ON, passing a barren late fall landscape sometime in November or December 1971. The exact location is not noted, but it appears to be eastbound at Baseline Road at the east end of Darlington siding.

ALCO 901 was originally one of four RS27 units built for the C&NW, who traded them back to ALCO after a few years for new C425's. ALCO then painted them black, and leased two (900-901) to CP in the early 1970's. While on lease, they changed hands to Precision Engineering Co (PECO), and then Precision National Corp (PNC), still on lease to CP. 901 later ended up on the Minnesota Commercial as their 318 (now stored), and sister 900 on Peabody Coal (since scrapped).

CP 5002 was CP's first GP35 (numbered above the two GP30 units, and originally delivered as CP 8202). It would eventually become CP control cab/slug 1126. The 4083 trailing, one of CP's freight-passenger FPA2 units, would catch fire the next year and be retired.

Keith Hansen photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.