Canadian Railroads > CN 4-6-2 #5548 (1958)

Bruce Black shot @ Stratford, ON on 6/11/58

p.s. well just because it's been scraped that was no reason forme not to post the pic : >)
thanks, hadn't been back to see your posts



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/19 12:03 by valmont.

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valmont Wrote:
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> Bruce Black shot @ Stratford, ON on 6/11/58

Sure would be nice to see it ....

 

Will MacKenzie
Dundas, ON

On the steam board

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Darren Boes
Lethbridge, AB
Southern Alberta Railfan

The CNRA roster shows this as a K2b Pacific built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1914 for the Canadian Government Railways.

The CGR (Canadian Government Railway) was a Canadian Government corporation set up to operate the former Intercolonial Railway and it subsidiaries, the National Transcontinental Railway and the Canadian Northern after these railways failed during WW1. Later, with the failure of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, these railways became the CNR.

There was a pressing need for locomotives, because the Intercolonial and the NTR were handling heavy wartime traffic to Halifax, and the Intercolonial engine fleet was aging and inadequate.

At least a couple of CGR Pacifics are preserved.