The Canadian usually was handled by FP's but it was handled by Geeps on more
than one occasion. Several groups of geeps were passenger equipped although
the Dominion was far more likely to be handled by Geeps than the Canadian.
An FP-GP-FP combination was also quite common as were FP-FB-FB's or FP-GP-GP
or FP-GP-FB or other variations thereof. And there are lots of photos that
show an RS18 in the consist as well, but generally speaking they did not run
RS18's west of Calgary.
JDS: But they (RS10-RS18 units) did occasionally show up on the Canadian
west of Calgary.
I remember one such unit showing up at Kamloops as a trailing unit in the
westbound Canadian. I think it was during the airline strike of 1976 when
extra passenger trains were put on to handle transcontinental travellers.
--And if you read what I said, I used the term "generally speaking" which
most people would interpret as meaning, basically, "most of the time". Which
you agree is what happened. So what is the problem?
Doug
