Caption: On a perfectly overcast day, GP-9 #403 rests at the Chatham Street roundhouse. Here are some locomotive details...
- Built by the General Motors Diesel Division (London, Ontario) in March, 1954.
- Equipped with steam boilers for passenger operations
- Constructed to operate long-hood forward
- Equipped with Automatic Train Control to permit operation in the lead position on New York Central lines east of Welland, Ontario
- Rebuilt as CP Rail GP-9u, #1689 at Angus Shop, Montreal, in February 1988
(Information Source: www.thbrailway.ca)
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I miss the ol’ TH&B a lot more than I thought I would. Once known as the “To Hell & Back” or the “Thump, Hump & Bump”.
Those were the first three GMD built GP9′s too.