CP's Royal Canadian Pacific Train | Paynesville Sub | EMD FP9A

CP's Royal Canadian Pacific Train | Paynesville Sub | EMD FP9A

Canadian Pacific operated a business/presidential/officer special (whatever you would like to best call it) 40B with the Royal Canadian Pacific (RCP) on the Paynesville Sub with CEO Keith Creel and other CP officials on board for an employee Town Hall meeting in St. Paul on Wednesday, May 19th 2021. EMD FP9A CP 1401 leaded the train followed by CP 4107 and B-unit 1900. Yes it was an AAB consist. On Friday, May 21st the the train 41B deadheaded back west again along the Paynesville Sub.

As a bonus I've included video from a prior run on the Paynesville Sub with CP 4107 leading on August 30th, 2014 at several locations with an ABA consist. Then one final drone shot on October 10th, 2016 with a AA consist at the Camden Place Rail Bridge when the RCP was in town for the Ryder Cup.

00:00 Eden Valley
00:59 South Haven
01:20 Camden Bridge, Minneapolis
02:27 Hoffman, St. Paul
05:18 Medina
06:05 Rockford
07:14 Buffalo
07:46 Annandale
08:13 Watkins
08:42 Paynesville
09:02 Belgrade
10:30 Brooten
12:12 Camden Bridge, Minneapolis
13:24 Rockford
14:08 Buffalo
15:20 Watkins
16:44 Camden Bridge, Minneapolis

The EMD FP9 is an American 1,750 horsepower (1,300 kW), B-B dual-service passenger and freight-hauling diesel locomotive that was produced between February 1954 and December 1959 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, and General Motors Diesel. Final assembly was at GM-EMD's La Grange, Illinois plant, except for Canadian orders, which were assembled by Canadian subsidiary GMD at London, Ontario. The FP9 was essentially EMD's F9 locomotive extended by four feet to give greater steam generator and water capacity for hauling passenger trains. A total of 90 cab-equipped lead A units were built; unlike the freight series, no cabless booster B units were sold. Regular F9B units were sometimes used with FP9 A units, since they, lacking cabs, had more room for water and steam generators. The FP9 and its predecessor, the FP7, were offshoots of GM-EMD's highly successful F-unit series of cab unit diesel locomotives.

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