In April 1952, major manufacturers of diesel-electric motive power placed full-page ads in the CNR's magazine for its employees.
However ...
 |
| from: Canadian National Magazine, April 1952; Canadian National Railways |
The CNR's principal form of motive power was still in use (as seen above) and was also featured on the magazine's cover for that month - a Central Vermont 2-10-4 'Texas' class engine, the 700. At Transcona, notice the recycling of an axle - being held by its journal - as it is hammered into a new part.
Before the era of free trade, national tariffs protected Canada's locomotive manufacturing industry to an extent. There were even time limits affecting how long a locomotive could operate on the other side of the border without putting its 'nationality' into question as far as trade laws were concerned.
In hindsight, encouraging the manufacture of locomotives in Canada was no guarantee that the technological advances would be owned in Canada. A great deal of worldwide railway technology standardization has happened during the last six decades ...
 |
| from: General Electric 2015 Annual Report. |
* * *
Ready for the future or not: here are the ads which appeared in the Canadian National Railways Magazine in April 1952.
 |
| from: Canadian National Magazine, April 1952; Canadian National Railways |
 |
| from: Canadian National Magazine, April 1952; Canadian National Railways |
 |
| from: Canadian National Magazine, April 1952; Canadian National Railways |
... home of the diesel locomotive.