The Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) was renamed the British Columbia Railway in 1972 and in 1984, BC Rail. It was a Class II regional railway and the third-largest in Canada, operating 2,320 km (1,440 miles) of mainline track. Its operations were owned by the public as a crown corporation from 1918 until 2004, when the provincial government leased operations for 990 years to Canadian National. The track and other assets, including a marine division and stevedoring subsidiary as well as large amounts of real estate, remain publicly owned.
The lead unit here is a RS-18 from the Montreal Locomotive Works of which 351 were built between December 1956 to August 1968; 29 were bought by PGE. It was the Canadian version of the ALCo RS-11, a Bo-Bo type with an ALCo 251B 4-stroke prime mover rated at 1,800 hp (1,340 kW).
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