Looking at the website below, you can see a canceled order for CP Rail M420Ws. It would appear this happened about 1976 or so, around the time MLW became Bombardier.
http://www.trainweb.org/alco/O6000.html
I have heard that CP tested some CN's M420s but I never knew they planned an order. Does anyone know any more of this? How many were to be built and why was the order canceled? After the M630/M636 fiasco I could understand why CP was gun shy, but weren't M420Ws different animals with a reasonable track record with CN and BC rail?
Thanks,
http://www.trainweb.org/alco/O6000.html
I have heard that CP tested some CN's M420s but I never knew they planned an order. Does anyone know any more of this? How many were to be built and why was the order canceled? After the M630/M636 fiasco I could understand why CP was gun shy, but weren't M420Ws different animals with a reasonable track record with CN and BC rail?
Thanks,