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» British Columbia Railway (more..)
» MLW M630W (more..) |
» Pavillion Horseshoe (more..)
» Pavillion, British Columbia, Canada (more..)
» March 23, 1980 |
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Photographer |
» BCOL 725 (more..)
» #23 (more..) |
» Blair Kooistra (more..)
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| I seemed to have the inordinate misfortune of photographing a high-proportion of trains on BC Rail in 1979-81 let by one of the relatively-rare M630W's on the roster. I didn't really care how rare these were--all I knew is that they were far less attractive, to me at least, than the 21 standard-cab C and M630s. There were only 8 of 'em--723-730--acquired in 1973 as the last of BCOL's six-motor Alco-powered locomotives. On a cloudy spring day, #725 leads two normal cabbed 630s and an M420B (another unfortunate MLW design) around the horseshoe curve at Pavillion, looping back to climb away from the Fraser River canyon. Sixty-six cars trail the all-MLW power consist. |
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