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MLW RSD-17 DL_624 2400 HP

Empress of Agincourt un-official name for one-of-a-kind 8921 RSD-17 2400 HP MLW #81603 5/1957
westbound across West Toronto Diamond with the Transfer heading into West Toronto Yard.
September 28, 1978 Doug Kroll

"Empress of Agincourt" 8921 at the sanding towers Toronto Yard diesel shop. 4/22/1980 Clayton Langstaff

8921 on the shop track at Toronto Yard February 1979 before it got chop-nose modification c.12/1988.

More photos 8921 Toronto Yard

Chop nose modification c. 12/1988

When asked why the stripes were painted wrong, a shop foreman said it was just to drive railfans nuts!

One other unit 8763 got painted this way.

Right and left views after chop nose December 1988 and repainted with wrong angle nose stripes!

See also Trains Gallery 8921