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"It might be better to say what happened to it during the war. It was destined for the west coast. Now, while we were doing the car equipment, it would take all the searchlights and guns and all that sort of stuff. The Motive Power Department in our Transcona Shops were doing the locomotive, which was one of the first diesel locomotives - and amour plates, you know, is thick and it's heavy and they found that - and I have nothing to bear that fact in mind but they found that it was too heavy to travel across some of the trestled bridges in British Colombia. That was a disappointment to some. And, of course it was? The whole train was much heavier than a normal train would be. There weren't many cars- you know, just six or seven but they were all much heavier than they normally would have been cause the application of the armour train. It was a heavy job and it made it to the west coast. To the best of my knowledge, it ended its term in the Shops of Port Mann and was done away with there."