translate English to German: Dieselization was completed eleven years later, with its last steam locomotive running on November 6, 1960. The CPR's first-generation locomotives were mostly made by General Motors Diesel and Montreal Locomotive Works , ( American Locomotive Company designs), with some made by the Canadian Locomotive Company to Baldwin and Fairbanks Morse designs.
Diese nach den Selkirk Mountains benannten Lokomotiven waren besonders gut für Steilstrecken geeignet und wurden sowohl für Güter- als auch für Passagierzüge eingesetzt.