Caption: CP 40B-13 shoves into Lambton, having knocked down a restricting aspect into yard space to stage the consist until it's departure later that evening at 8:45pm. Train 40B departed that night, taking the Galt Sub downtown into the USRC, and remerging onto the Bala Sub to reach Richmond Hill at GO Transit's Quaker layover facility.

CP 4107, a GMD FP9A, sits pretty on the front train 40B outside of Lambton Yard in Toronto's west end. This F unit has an interesting history as it started out working for the other guy, as CN 6526, blt 1957, serial A 1198. From 1957 it worked for CN hauling freight and passenger trains, likely pulling the Super Continental and other corridor streamliners in the famed "hungry man" scheme of dark green and gold, later getting the widely recognized zebra stripe livery of which lasted for decades after. In 1977 VIA Rail Canada was formed to handle the passenger services of CN and CP and thus CN 6526 became VIA 6526, with the red CN "noodle" logo on the nose with VIA blue and yellow on its flanks. Into the early 1980's, VIA 6526 was renumbered to VIA 6313, losing the noodle on the nose. In the interim years into the late 1980's, VIA's F units of GM and MLW production slowly faded from the roster in favour of the new and flashy LRC series equipment and locomotives, which in turn got outshined and replaced by the F40PH fleet still active today. In the early 2000's, however, 6313 would end up working for the Ohio Central Railway (reporting marks OHCR) as a passenger locomotive for their tourist trains, go figure. OHCR 6313 would later sell to CP in 2006 for their Royal Canadian Pacific trainset, being painted in the lavish maroon and gold "script" livery, a harkening to decades past and the romantic golden era of North American luxury rail travel. OCHR 6313 became CP 4107, and wore brand new 1950's-era colours courtesy of shops at National Rail Equipment co. Now ready to haul around the companies new office car special or "RCP" passenger liner across Canada system wide, even into the states on various occasions on CP's acquired SOO Line trackage and beyond. The RCP still runs thirteen years later, hauling the big corporate brass around the system, to various events and charities that CP sponsors or has liaisons with, including this weeks LPGA Women's Open. It's great to see 1957-stock GM power still smoking up the air in 2019 amongst the sea of modern F40 rebuilds, P42's, and now the burgeoning roster of modern Siemens "charger" spec eco-friendly passenger locomotives. If even just to haul around the boss, it's always fun to wait trackside and be rewarded with that classic F unit rounded cab, in A-A-A arrangement, with the classic hungry beaver on the front!