NB East Coast Railway NBEC 4214

NBEC 4214 near Bathurst, NB, July 17 2006
NBEC 4214 near Bathurst, NB, July 17 2006

NBEC 4214 was an MLW C-424 purchased from Canadian Pacific. It was retired from the Quebec Gatineau Railway in February 1999. It made its first run on the NBEC December 9, 2001. It had an alternator instead of a main generator.

NBEC 4214 in the Campbellton shops, October 2003
NBEC 4214 in the Campbellton shops, October 2003
NBEC 4214 in Bathurst, NB, June 2005
NBEC 4214 in Miramichi, NB, June 2005

Other photos of this engine can be found:

  • Signatures In Steel by Greg McDonnell, page 56, at Drumbo, Ontario as the fourth engine in a potash train, June 22, 1987.

In 2011, 4214 went to Allied Services in Chicago, IL and was presumably scrapped.

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