Roberval - Saguenay

Roster electric and steam

Predecessor Ha! Ha! Bay 1 a 2-4-2T Tractive effort 13,740 lbs. MLW 3/1910
New cost $7,000 Became Roberval Saguenay 1.
Sold in 7/1940 to Aluminum Company of Canada.

Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

Chicoutimi Pulp 1 Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

Chicoutimi Pulp 5 a 200 h.p. steeplecab electric. Built by La Cie de Pulpe de Chicoutimi machine shop using four, Westinghouse Type 56, 50 h.p. Railway Electric Motors. B-B configuration on wooden trucks.
Acquired in 1913 and retired in 1949. Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

R-S 5 with one of the first train loads of wood pulp from Chicoutimi West to Labrosse
for furtherance to Port Alfred in 1911. Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

Roberval-Saguenay 6. Baldwin-Westinghouse built in 1912. Rebuilt as diesel-electric 8 (see below).

R-S 7 Built by General Electric, Schenectady, # 1458 1917. 500 volts. Class 100-8-A.
Acquired from Van Loan Corporation but never used at Chicoutimi West. Scrapped 1952.
Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

R-S 8 (ex Chicoutimi Light and Power Company). Body built locally (?).
Canadian Westinghouse 3/1913, 200 h.p. (four type 93-A, 50 h.p. Railway Electric Motors).
Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

#6 – 2-6-0 - Ex C&P 3 contractor on NTR
Acquired in 6/1916 secondhand from the Canadian Equipment Company.
Cyl. 19" x 26" Drv. 50" t.e. 28,720 lbs. Built by MLW 44263 1910
Sold to Alma and Jonquières in 1923 .
Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

9 acq. 1919 (ex P&LE) Cyl. 18" x 24" Drv. 50" Pittsburg Locomotive and Car Works 1899
Arvida c.1940 Bill Thomson Collection

4-6-0 10 (acq. 7/1920 ex T&NO 105) Cyl. 19" x 24" Drv. 56" Press. 180 t.e. 23,760 CLC 689 3/1906
Acquired from Canadian Equipment Co. (D) looking brand new at Bagotville shop. Retired 1932.
Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

R-S 10 years later with 6 behind it. Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

Ten-wheeler 11 (acq. 9/1920 ex T&NO 108) CLC #692 3/1906 Retired 1925.
Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

12 0-6-0 acq. 3/1926 ex Alton and Southern (Alcoa-owned) Alco Cooke 1902 Scrapped 3/1953
Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

13 one of two identical 2-6-0's Cyl.20" x 26" Drv. 50" t.e. 35,400 lbs. MLW 67427 9/1927 Arvida.
Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

13 Arvida circa 1940 Bill Thomson Collection

14 Mogul 2-6-0 MLW 67428 5/1926
Sold to Alma and Jonquières in 1941
Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

15 0-4-0T (acq. 1/1928 ex Quebec Development Co.104) Built as Alma & Jonquiere 1
t.e. 14,400 MLW 64710 1923 Arvida 1938

15 0-4-2T (built as 0-4-0T see above) Port Alfred. Sold 1951 to Alcan, Chute du Diable.
Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

15 preserved at old pulp mill museum in Chicoutimi. 7/16/2011 Marc G. Vallieres

Pulp museum and park Chicoutimi.

Saguenay Power 106 (ex RS_15). Chicoutimi 9/20/15

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16 looking pretty nice at Arvida. CLC #1923 6/1937
Cyl. 23x30 Drv. 57" 200# 47300 t.e. 201 tons working order.
Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

16 and 17 were two 2-8-0's built for Roberval Saguenay long after other railways had turned to 2-8-2's,
these modern looking engines were equipped with vestibule cabs and stoker.
They were the last domestic 2-8-0's built in North America.

17 on the table at Arvida. CLC #1959 1/1940 Courtesy of Rio Tinto Alcan, Ian Stronach Collection

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A much rebuilt shop switcher that was first an electric as number 6, then in 1941 a homemade rebuild diesel-electric
with wheel arrangement of 1A-1A. It was rebuilt in 1950 as a battery-electric shop switcher.
Note the stencilled weight of 73450 (37 tons) B-W #38411 9/1912
Arvida, Que. 8/27/1971 David M. More

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