Chicoutimi Pulp Co.

Parent company of Roberval-Saguenay Ry. until it closed down in 1925.
R-S was then acquired by the Aluminum Corporation, which was actually a subsidiary of Alcoa,
the Aluninum Company of America. In 1928 the Aluminum Corporation was divested by Alcoa and Alcan was born.

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Article August 1901

One-of-a-kind electric locomotive. Un-numbered 22-tonner.

Digital restoration: Walter Pfefferle

 

Chicoutimi Pulp 1, described in above article.
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.

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

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