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Canadian Pacific Railway

4-4-0 Eight-Wheeler

One of a series of postage stamps commemorating Canada's steam locomotives. Issued 1984.

C.P.R. 1 Countess of Dufferin Baldwin 2660 January 1872. Preserved in Winnipeg.

71 Kingston

Behind 144(i) is the Van Horne style station completed January or February 1884 with three chimneys. Calgary (ii) and Medicine Hat structures were the only two of the Van Horne era style stations with three, all others had two chimneys.
The sandstone structure (iii) was designed in 1893 and construction started that fall. After completion of this new building
the wood structure (ii) was then moved across the main track and yard to the south side. The photo had to be taken summer 1894. Calgary’s first station (i) was a bunk-house which looked much like a box car, but was of a standard design for that purpose. Doug Phillips

NOTE: This is not the 144 of New Brunswick fame so well-known to many along with 29 and 136.

148 with men and boy posing. Baldwin 1/1878

158 (nee 374) CPNS 1038 6/1886 Preserved 7/1945 renumbered back to 374.
Hauled first passenger train into Vancouver No.1 May 23,1887.
Denis Chartrand Collection

Hail! Hail! The gang's all here. 241 on the table at old Ottawa West roundhouse. Circa 1890 Kevin Day Collection
Acquired 6/1882 ex QM&O 14 St.Laurent Manchester Locomotive Works #741 11/1876

282 Hinkley Locomotive 1618 8/1883 Prescott, Ontario 1891 David Jeans Collection
Note: Became A5c 7083 (83) scrapped 7/1926

CPR 285 SA Class 4-4-0 Cyl. 17" x 24" Drv. 62" Press. 150 lbs. Tender 10 tons, 2800 gals. CPNS #1001 11/1883
Renumbered 1/1912 as the first A4a class 7001. Retired 11/1920. Canadian Pacific
Note: This was the first "CPR standard" design of locomotive and the first built at the New Street Shops in Montreal.

St.Lawrence & Ottawa 9 Lucy Dalton acq.4/1885 (999 year lease) became 1st 322.
Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Co. (Taunton, Mass.) 596 2/1873

Sold 7/1890 Parry Sound Colonization Ry. 1.

371 with first through train from Montreal (left on June 28, 1886) and arrived in Port Moody, BC at Noon, July 4, 1886.
City of Vancouver Archives

Vancouver June 28, 1936 City of Vancouver Archives/Walter E. Frost

371 all ready to celebrate the Jubilee (50th Anniversary) of Trans Canada passenger train service.
The terminal was soon relocated farther west at Coal Harbour (Vancouver)
and the first through passenger train No.1 arrived there May 23, 1887 hauled by engine 374.
CPR operated special trains from New Westminster and Coquitlam to Vancouver
carrying people to see the arrival of the first through passenger train.

Note: 371 was scrapped back in 1915 so 374 was renumbered and substituted.

Later, 158 was renumbered back to 374 and displayed for many years at
Kitsilano Beach Park. It was removed and stored in doors then it was
restored and displayed at the restored Drake Street roundhouse during the
122nd. anniversary festivities held May 17, 2009.

Nearly new 374 (CPNS 1038 6/1886) westbound at Keefers, BC (12 miles from North Bend). 1887

Note: This is likely the first through passenger train to Vancouver arriving there May 23, 1887.

374 all decorated poses with 2862 in Vancouver 1946. Canadian Pacific Railway/Steve Morris Collection
SA class 374 was on train No.1 May 23,1887. The first train into Vancouver.

522 (ex 143) moving dead. (Note rods are off). This engine and 374 both were used in the 1937 movie Silent Barriers
a story about the building of the CPR. Later rereleased in a longer version titled The Great Barrier.

 



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