Long before there were cookie cutter, narrow hooded, utilitarian powerhouses that move the railroad today there were streamlined, futuristic ‘covered wagons’ hauling freight and passenger traffic across North America. Some survived into the modern era.

This pair of old FP7A’s bring Canadian Pacific’s Number 1, the last Canadian, down the hill into Moose Jaw. Tomorrow, on the 1 st of June 1977, a new railroad would be born and VIA would be at the throttle. Later, the new Canadian would turn her back on southern Saskatchewan and follow CN’s main line through Saskatoon, North Battleford, Edmonton and Jasper.