CP Rail

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

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. One was kept locally as a protect for the unit actually working Speno train. London 7/29/1972 Al Howlett