Unexpected power. When CP completed its takeover of the CMQ last week, the last place one would have expected to see the CMQ's ex-CP barns was on Montreal-Saratoga Springs train CP 252 (which normally runs with PTC-equipped leaders), yet CMQ 9023 and CMQ 9022 were the sole power on CP 252 yesterday. Here they are returning to Montreal on a late CP 253, with 134 cars on the drawbar as they approach the Ste-Catherine commuter station at a slow rate of speed. Earlier they had told the RTC that they couldn't go past 27 mph, as well, they were told to slow down even more as a boat was passing through the St. Lawrence Seaway and CP's bridge over it was raised.
