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Dear Sir, Here is a Link to a Newspaper Clipping of Two Cranes Unloading Ex CP 15 from Elko at Fort Steele, B.C. Ex CP 14 from Canal Flats was moved down, too. http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cdnlococo/detail?.tok=phFGfUBBzngEkVxn&.dir=/Mail+Attachments&.dnm=d4a1.jpg&.src=ph When Built, both Units had Two Diesel Engines, one on each side of Cab on an Angle with the Drive Shafts passing beneath the Cab Floor and Driving the Opposite Axle nearest the Cab. Drive Shafts Off Set to Pass each other beneath Cab to Differentials on Inboard Axles. The Two Outside Axles were Driven by Connecting Rods Outside the Truck Frames from Two Powered Axles Next to Cab similar to Connecting Rods on Steam Locomotives. Wheels inside Truck Frames. The 'Front' of the Locomotive was Marked by an "F" and was the End that put the Engineer on the Right Hand Side. Throttle Shown in one of the Photos was similar to that used on some CN Full Size CLC/FM Opposed Piston Diesel Electric Locomotives. The Throttle Lever Horizontal Slot is "U"-Shaped with Forward using one Slot, Reverse using the Other Slot, with Neutral in the Front Center of the Slots These Units were purchased by CPR to be Under 44 Tons so they would not require a Fireman. The Engineers Hated the Units, as they were rather small and could not Start and, especially, not STOP Heavy Cuts of Cars not on Air Brakes. Another reason they were disliked was that the Engineer had to work the whole Shift alone, rather than change off with the Fireman, then Eat and Snooze. Cunning Engineers would abuse these Units and female dog and Whine and Snivel until they got a Baldwin, Alco or MLW Series AND a Fireman. Several of these Diesel Hydraulics wound up working their last days for CP in the Main Shops at Ogden in Calgary and Weston in Winnipeg. CP 14 Arrived at Canal Flats in 1968 and operated there until c. 1980. Track Lifted and Unit isolated. ( It replaced a Home Built Critter made from a Small CP Steam Locomotive Tender on Arch Bar Trucks that had a GM Diesel Engine CHAIN Driving one Axle beneath the Tender. This Critter was moved South to the then-new Crestbrook Pulp Mill at Skookumchuck, B.C. in 1968. Operated thru 1973. Replaced by Whiting Trackmoble. Cut Up May 1974. ) Canal Flats once had a Canal joining the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers. With all the Water, it is one of the Mosquito Capitals of the Kootenay Central. We legally obtained the HS5 Class Plate from 14 around 1990, the CLC Diamond Builder's Plates, the other Class Plate and the Bell missing. CP 15 was used at Elko until the early eighties, then used as a End-of-Track Buffer, ultimately getting shoved off the End of Steel by Switching Crews. The CNI ( Crows Nest Industries ) Spur at Elko was Constructed in the late Sixties to access the Elko Saw Mill. The Spur was about 2 Miles long and was interesting in that it paralled a portion of the route of the 1937-Abandoned Great Northern Railway from Rexford, Montana which was Constructed into Canada in 1902 and ultimately reached the Coal Mine and Coke Ovens at Michel, B.C. This Spur passed thru a Large Steel Corrigated Tube beneath the Main Drag in the City of Elko and was the location of many Derailments once 6-Axle Power came into use. While on the Subject. I was of the impression that CP 15 at Elko came from the Shell Oil Sulphur Plant at Pecten/Drywood on the Pecten Subdivision South off the CPR Crowsnest Sub at Brocket, Alta., about 100 Miles East of Elko. There were TWO 2 other DT2s at Coleman, Alta., at Coleman Collieries in the Seventies. One in Operation, and CP 23??? on it's side, for Parts. The Colliery also had a 4-Wheel GE? 25 Ton Loco. They Shipped 100 Cars of Coal a day, starting with the Coleman-Port Moody Coal Trains c. 1966, the First CP "Unit Trains." Sulphur moved in "Unit Trains" too ex Brocket.
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