Canadian National Railways 4205+4208, Mile Post 106.7, Skeena Subdivision near North Pacific Cannery, January 1958. Yet another CNR train, a pair of GP-9L's, Extra West 922, comes to grief almost ending up in the Skeena River!
This is the third wreck in same area. Passenger train 196 tripped over a rockslide here in September 1958.
It is a geologic problem. Very old rock which easily fractures when ground water seeps into it, winter freezing on a steep slope, and nowhere for the CNR to go. The river is right there!
Railroad Stuff: Canadian National Railways 4205, nee CNR 4501 by GMD in London Ontario as GP-9L, road class GR-17g, 1,750 hp, November 1956, serial number A-1019. Renumbered to 4205 in 1956. Flexicoil trucks replaced with EMD Blomberg B trucks in 1962 and reassigned CNR 4501.
This is the third wreck in same area. Passenger train 196 tripped over a rockslide here in September 1958.
It is a geologic problem. Very old rock which easily fractures when ground water seeps into it, winter freezing on a steep slope, and nowhere for the CNR to go. The river is right there!
Railroad Stuff: Canadian National Railways 4205, nee CNR 4501 by GMD in London Ontario as GP-9L, road class GR-17g, 1,750 hp, November 1956, serial number A-1019. Renumbered to 4205 in 1956. Flexicoil trucks replaced with EMD Blomberg B trucks in 1962 and reassigned CNR 4501.
Canadian National Railways 4208, nee CNR 4590, built by GMD in London Ontario as GP-9L, road class GR-17g, 1,750 hp, June 1957, serial number A-1242. Rebuilt as GP-9RM 7272 in 1993.
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