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CPR 8561 pulls its sulfur train into Field, British Columbia. The crew will get a well earned rest and a new crew will take the train on to Revelstoke late this afternoon.
It's heavy enough to ride on eight axels, and it's important enough to be cut in behind the engines. As far as my research goes, this thing is a Drawwork, a large electronic winch used with Oil Rigs. Yard engine 1546 watches his train go into a yard track at Moose Jaw.
Here we see a green BNSF GP39 and an orange BNSF GP39 that are consecutive numbers. Both have a middle fan which indicates that they are ex-GP35's instead of the unique GP30's..