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CPR Ten-Wheeler 4-6-0

D4g 444 CPR 2/13 Angus Shops built 75 of these small engines for branchline service across the system.
They had the same 63 inch diameter drivers as all other D Class engines but, only 21% t.e. compared to 28-34%.
Revelstoke April 1943 Peter Cox Collection/Courtesy of Bruce Chapman

D6d class 555 Saxon Locomotive Building Co. Chemnitz, Germany #2842 2/04
Became DAR 555 5/37 and sold 3/47 to Canadian Gypsum. Bud Laws Collection
This style of tender with rounded back corners was standard on many classes of engines built in the very early 1900's

D9c 579 near Lake Louise, Alberta. Schenctady #28338 7/03 Note the inboard valves.

"Distributed Power" This scene in the Kicking Horse Pass is proof of the old saying "There is nothing new under the sun"


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D10 class



One of only four D11a class "Mother Hubbard" or, camelback style engines built with a Wooten wide firebox to burn
low grade coal. MLW #42098 1/07. Note the two separate cabs. Converted to standard class D10d 10/1910.
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E4d class 2046 CPR New Shops #1332 7/00 Winnipeg 9-30-32 Bud Laws Collection

A high Ten-Wheeler with 70 inch drivers for passenger service.
One of many CPR engines built around that time with Belpaire boilers.
These engines were built as saturated engines. It received a new boiler in 7/11 with Vaughan-Horsey superheater.
Photographed in the depths of the Great Depression it likely never saw service again and was scrapped 7/35.

E5f 2114 Cyl. 20" x 26" Drv. 70" 200 lbs. 25,300 t.e. Schenectady #28574 6/1903.
(One of the last six E5's all scrapped 4/49). at St.Johnsbury, Vermont. Bud Laws

E5g 2118 and identical sister engine with a Royal Train for the Prince of Wales. Between Smiths Falls and Brockville. 1927 Kevin Day Collection
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Another photo of the same train identifies the men who are standing in a different order.

A later view of 2118 (note different headlight) Brockville, Ontario August 1935. Bud Laws

Another of the last six E5's, 2055, 2110, 2113, 2114, 2118 and 2119 all scrapped 4/1949.

 



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