CP Rail

CLC H-16-44

Builder's plate for sister unit 8709. Jim Burd Collection

8716 8715 with Speno rail grinding train. Golden, BC July 19,1973

8715 and 8716 H16-44 1600 hp 75 mph. CLC #2975-6 4/1957 were equipped with slow speed control to operate Speno rail grinding train. Assigned to Nelson, BC for maintenance they would move anywhere on the system the Speno train worked. Typically one unit works the Speno train while the other unit was kept working locally as a protect for the unit actually working on the Speno train on account of the slow speed control not on other road units.

Extra 8609 (4105) backing down onto train in Cranbrook. CLC 2950 12/1956 August 2, 1971 Keith Hansen

8716 Quebec Street yard London 7/29/1972 Al Howlett