| Built by GMD (EMD Canada) in 1959, this loco was a class GR-17p with a 567-C prime mover that created 1750 hp. the federal government as the Great Slave Lake Railway, running from a point on the Northern Alberta Railways at Grimshaw, Alberta to the southern shores of Great Slave Lake at Hay River, Northwest Territories. The Great Slave Railway's operation was entrusted to Canadian National Railway in 1966, which had been operating the line on behalf of the federal government since it opened in 1964. This unit was eventually converted by Pointe St Charles shops in Montreal into CN yard slug 232 in 1986. No date, exact location or photographer was listed for the photo. |