OK, I know that 1801 was never repaired after a head on outside Quebec City.
I also know that units 1800 and 1802 finished out their days in VIA livery.
But . . .
#1800 was the first diesel loco I ever saw. The first time I saw her was as she pulled into Montreal West, westbound, at the head of shiny, streamlined passenger cars. All these years I was convinced that particular train was The Canadian, bound for Vancouver. This was in about 1955.
But now I am confused. The Canadian seems to never have run east of Toronto. Is that true?
I also read that the CPR's E8s did not have dynamics and hence never went over the mountains
west of Alberta. So #1800 did not, ever, pull The Canadian over The Rockies.
If not The Canadian, what was that shiny train westbound out of Montreal West station in about 1955? It is not particularly revealing, but this is the picture of #1800 I took all those years ago as it pulled into Montreal West at the head of all those streamlined cars.
Fifty years is a long time to be wrong! 
