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GP9u 8229

 

 

GP9u

CP 8229

 

 

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CP 8229 AT SMITHS FALLS, ON.

 

Built by : GMD

Built in : 1956 as CP 8617

Serial Number : A 957

Class : DRS-17

Paint Scheme : CP Rail no-Multimark

This Photo : Bill Sanderson, 2002

 

Other Photos (chronological) :

1. CP 8617 at Port Coquitlam, B.C., painted in the CP Rail Small Multimark paint scheme. Photo by Claude Prutton, 1988;

2. CP 8229 at Port Coquitlam, B.C., painted in the CP Rail no-Multimark paint scheme. Photo by Mark Forseille, 2011.

 

Notes : Built by GMD as GP9 #8617 (1956). Rebuilt by CP, chop-nosed and renumbered to #8229 (1989). Retired (9/30/2011). Sent to SRY, New Westminster B.C., for parts salvage and scrapping.

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