Caption: While touring around CN’s MacMillan yard diesel shop one November afternoon we stopped to photograph M-420(W) 3507, which had just emerged from one of the bays. A young hostler helper was busy closing engine compartment doors and doing some other inspections, when he spotted us below. “Hey, you guys wanna come up for a ride?” he asked. Well, that question was answered quickly as we all piled into 3507’s warm cab. It wasn’t a long trip, as it was just to put the unit over onto another shop track. However, seeing the shop from onboard a unit was something I’ll never forget, especially from the cab of an M-420(W).
Here, GP9 Slug 253 is seen during our cab ride with a sea of other various CN motive power crowding the diesel shop tracks including GP9RM’s 7081 and 7082, plus a transfer caboose.