Caption: Viewed from the unknown photographer's seat of a yellow Opel GT during an April 1975 trip railfanning Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway, CP SW1200RS 8137 is in charge of today's Truro-Windsor mixed train #22, seen here at Windsor NS coupled to its wooden 437xxx-series van and steel heavyweight coach 1303. The mixed may have dropped their freight at the yard and possibly waiting to head to the station nearby.

Just like how the 8160-8162 were longtime assigned units on the GRR/LE&N, the 8130-series SW1200RS units were typical power assigned to the DAR, based out of Kentville NS for maintenance purposes but sometimes travelling to Montreal for major work. In later years, rebuilt 1200-series units would handle duties with other 8100's.

At the time of this photo, DAR ran a mixed train from Truro to Windsor (#22) in the morning, and back from Windsor to Truro (#21) in the afternoon. This was the last mixed train operating on Canadian Paccific, and was likely one of the last uses of heavywight coaches in revenue service on the system. Regularly assigned at this time was coach 1303, a heavyweight first class coach originally built in 1929.

In June coach 1303 would be replaced with another heavyweight coach in mixed service (1720, that was used until the mixed trains were cancelled in October 1979. It featured a refurbished interior with bus-style seats). 1303 was then donated to the National Museum of Science & Technology (becoming their "Micmac"), eventually going to the BC chapter of the NHRS out west, and has since been since sold to Heber Valley in the US, along with most of the organization's collection.

Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.