Caption: During a hot summer evening a westbound CP train is seen in the siding at Orrs Lake, Ontario on the Galt Subdivision preparing to meet an eastbound. This consist was quite wild even by mid-90’s standards as it included GP38-2 3030, M-636 4721 and GP35 5012. While seeing a big MLW still in operation was awesome, which had now been given a blanked-over cab during reactivation at St-Luc, the real draw was GP35 5012. At the time, the entire fleet of CP GP35’s were assigned to Western Canada and one straying this far east was very un-common. Even in all my trips to CP’s Toronto Yard diesel shop, I never photographed or saw another one after this.
M-636 4721 ran for almost one more year before it was “re-retired” on July 5, 1995. While on August 2 ,1996 GP35 5012 was released from CP’s Weston Shops after conversion to control cab-daughter slug 1125. It was mated with GP38-2 ‘mother’ 3035 and assigned to Winnipeg. It was ultimately retired in October 2012.