The Railways of Canada Archives -- Trip Report: CPR's Bay Shore Yard and Roundhouse, Saint John, NB December 10, 1953

Trip Report:
CPR's Bay Shore Yard and Roundhouse,
Saint John, NB December 10, 1953

By Don Scott, Coquitlam, BC

[NOTE: * Symbol - denotes steam in tuscan red-grey-black-gold paint scheme]

Locomotives inside roundhouse in order:
2-8-0 yard #3744; 4-6-0 #431; 0-8-0 yard #6928; 2-8-0 yard #3642; 2-8-0 yard #3682, 0-8-0 yard #6600; light 4-6-2s #2621 and #2626, 2-8-2s #5329 and #5306; semi-streamlined heavy 4-6-2 *#2457; 0-8-0 yard #6935; 2-8-0 yard #3719; semi-streamlined heavy 4-6-2 *#2461; semi-streamlined 2-8-2s #5459 and #5456; 4-6-0 #489.

Other power seen in yard:
Yard engines 0-8-0s #6932, #6936, #6602; 2-8-0s #3638, #3738, #3752; 4-6-0 #491; light 4-6-2s #2555 and #2604; light modern 4-6-2 #1256; heavy 4-6-2 *#2332 (equipped with smoke deflectors--see note below); 2-8-2s #5115 and #5303.

Note: Heavy 4-6-2s *#2457 and *#2461 arrived earlier on Montreal-Saint John passenger trains #40 and #42, both put on at McAdam, NB, and go west at 1700 on #41 "Atlantic Limited" and train #39 at 2000. Train #41s locomotive will be taken off at McAdam, and will be added to train #39 at McAdam with runthrough to Montreal's Windsor Station. Train #39s locomotive will run as far as McAdam; overnight and back to Saint John on train #40 at 0630 and would eventually arrive in Montreal two days later scheduling of this power.

Note: Heavy 4-6-2 *#2332 equipped with smoke-deflectors worked for a period on subsidiary Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo passenger service out of Toronto. *#2332 has been running on the Boston-Saint John "Gull" for a period between Vanceboro, Maine-McAdam-Saint John replacing modern light 4-6-2 #1256. It was reported sister locomotive *#2337, equipped also with smoke-deflectors, made a few run to Saint John in 1947, but this is not official. Heavy 4-6-2 #2307, gold and black in 1949 for period handled the "Gull" between Vanceboro, Maine -Saint John.

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