ENR 3870 shoves some cars around the Wellcox yard in Nanaimo, BC. 3870 started life on long term lease to the Penn Central, numbered 7818 it was built with the extended cabs as seen on the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines GP38's. The major difference between this locomotive and the P-RSL ones would be the Dynamic Brakes and only one control stand, set up for short hood forward operation. The original lease with Penn Central for this locomotive expired not long after Conrail was formed. It went back to EMD, when the P&LE aquired it, it was renumbered 2040. It was later purchased by Conrail Leasing, renumbered again to 344, from the Conrail Lease fleet it went to RailAmerica's Cascade and Columbia River Railroad in Washington state. In 1999 it was exchanged with the E&N for GP9 1002 and became ENR 344. When the fleet was sold to CEFX and leased back in 2000 it was renumbered to 3870.

Photographed by Tyler Welsford, February 9, 2004.
Added to the photo archive by Tyler Welsford, February 10, 2004.
Railroad: Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (E&N).

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