Canadian Pacific E8 with the Alouette

Canadian Pacific E8 with the Alouette

By Angela Cotey | January 2, 2025

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


CP owned just three E units: E8’s 1800–1802, the only E units purchased by a non-U.S. railroad. Less than a month old, No. 1800 leads the Boston–Montreal Alouette out of Woodsville, N.H., and across the Connecticut River into Vermont on December 30, 1949.
Philip R. Hastings photo

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