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Images of BAR units BC Rail  leased / rented during the summer of 1973. Images taken at Chetwynd, BC  June 1973. "Kodak Instamatic Moment".

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C&O 5732 at St. Thomas, Ontario October 1978. The crews called this unit "freckles"
C&O 5773 at Chatham, Ontario August 1980
C&O 5773 in newer paint scheme, Chatham, Ontario May 1983, Bruce Mercer photo.

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MK 5001 at Prince George, BC.  This unit had a 6 cylinder Sulzer diesel motor and perhaps was upgrade to 1800 or 2000 horse power. BC Rail had it summer of 1981 for testing etc.

BN 1703 October 1985 at Bellingham, WA.  I had been stateside for a holiday and found this unit resting between assignments.

thanks for looking,
Doug

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Great variety. Amazing how many hoses you had to hook up back then.
JB

Nice set, interesting M-K units.

Any story behind the big crane in the background of #1 at Chetwynd?
tia.

Great to see all the variety here.

Very nice posting.  Most especially like you BAR photos.  Instamatic photos are always better than no photos.
ALLEN

Good stuff as usual, Doug. Even the BN Geep is interesting as it's a GP-9 that was originally assigned to Camas Prairie service and was there for many years.

Brian E



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/17/22 19:30 by M-420.

It was a heavy lift stiff leg crane used for off loading rail cars onto trucks of heavy equipment, construction materials etc for the large hydro electric dam projects on the Peace River. If I recall the crane was owned by BC Hydro.
Doug

TCnR Wrote:
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> Nice set, interesting M-K units.
>
> Any story behind the big crane in the background
> of #1 at Chetwynd?
> tia.