Caption: Extra flags flying high, DM&IR SD9 155 leads CN GP35 4001 eastbound through Merriton on Saturday, January 15, 1966. From the winter of 1963/64 through winter 1973/74 DM&IR SD9 and SD18 units were often leased by CN, CP and a few other lines. The winter of 1965/66 saw CN leasing 20 units, 155 being one of them (the only time it was leased), and the CP leasing 16.

DMIR 155 was one of 73 SD9s built by EMD and delivered in March, 1958. The unit would later be sold to Independent Locomotive Service in 1993 and rebuilt/renumbered as ILSX 1374. It's last known operation was the Dakota Quality Grain Cooperative in Ross, North Dakota about 2009. Trailing unit, CN 4001, was the second of two GP35s built for CN (the other being CN 4000). Both units would be renumbered 9300/9301 respectively in 1981, and retired from CN's roster in 1984. 9301 would be stripped of usable parts and scrapped at Mandak Metals, while 9300 would be sold to the Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western (DMVW) in 1989 as their 323, eventually being scrapped in 2002.

More DMIR on CN:
Roger Lalonde: Jan. 18, 1965 at Montreal.
Bill Thomson: March, 1966 at Halwest.
Doug Hately: Dec. 27, 1965 at Bowmanville.

CN GP35s:
CN 4000 by Bill Thomson: Mimico, Oct. 1964
CN 4001 by Bill Thomson: Mimico, Oct. 1964
CN 9300 by Doug Lawson: Dead and drained at Edmonton, Feb. 1984
CN 9301 by Doug Lawson: Dead and drained at Edmonton, Feb. 1984

Thanks to Bruce Mercer and Doug Wingfield for further information.