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Old Time Trains


Canadian Pacific Railway

EMD E8 2250 hp 85 mph A-1-A A-1-A dual steam generator equipped
Designed strictly for passenger service these units had no traction motors on the middle axles.

1802 one of only three E units in all of Canada. EMD #8682 12/1949 Ron Visockis

CPR bought these units to pool with Boston and Maine for Montreal-Boston service.
Later, they worked on other routes, one was destroyed in a wreck, two were upgraded and later sold to VIA Rail.
They were scrapped in spite of an effort to save one for a railway museum.

Train order for meets with all of the 1800's!

 



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