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Lambton Road Engines

Lambton road engines can also be seen in the various feature articles for the Bruce and Trenton Divisions
as well as assist engines working the London Division.

D10 999 (ex DAR 999) MLW 50973 5/1912 sitting outside the roundhouse near a small overhead crane just out of view.
This engine worked single shift assignments such as the Obico and Canpa Turn. Circa 1958 Bruce Chapman Collection
It has been preserved at the Canadian Railway Museum/Exporail (Delson)

D10h 1004 (MLW 50978 5/12) June 27, 1959 Bob Krane

D10h 1088 (1087-1111 25 engines and last D10) CLC 1124 9/1913 Toronto 1953 Walter Pfefferle Collection

2203 CPR 1483 9/06 class G1c rebuilt 6/27 as G1r with 22 1/2" x 28" cyl. and a new boiler of 200 lbs. pressure.
May 11, 1959 James A. Brown

Note: The table "boy" was a labourer although unlike a call boy this was not an entry level position.
These engines in their final form with vestibule cab and larger tender had a very appealing appearance.
The Elesco feedwater heater atop the smokebox set off the engine along with the Pyle National headlight.
By this time it and several other 2200's were used primarily as assist engines on west trains to Orrs Lake
and north trains to Bolton. Although hand-fired they were good steaming engines and well-liked for this duty.

G1a 2212 still with open cab and small tender.Toronto June 4, 1939 Bud Laws Collection

G1t 2228 a fine looking engine and very capable. They were well-liked by enginemen.
1959 L.B.Chapman Collection

2231 Built CPR 6/1914 G1g r/b as G1v 1/1923 with 22 1/2" x 28" cyl. retaining old boiler 200 lbs. t.e. 32%
April 6, 1939 James A. Brown Collection

Note: This engine was used on a Royal train in 1919 carrying Edward Prince of Wales on a tour of Canada and the United States. His Royal Highness would later become King Edward VIII in January of 1936 only to abdicate in December living out the rest of his life as the Duke of Windsor. Edward ran 2231 from Flavelle (Mile 20.9) through Brighton (Mile 9.9) to Trenton with engineer Harry Flood guiding him and accompanied by Bernard "Monty" Montgomery who would go on to fame in World War Two defeating Rommel in North Africa, a decisive battle that led to the fall of Germany. When approaching Brighton Flood told Edward to blow the whistle for Brighton. He called across the cab "Hi Monty, Brighton, dear old Brighton-by-the-Sea". "Blow the whistle" yelled the engineer as they raced towards tiny Brighton nothing like the famed resort in England. Upon arrival in Trenton Edward climbed down from the cab and handed the fireman back his gloves whereupon the shop labourer sent to clean the fire offered him $5 (about a day's pay back then) for the gloves which he turned down. This story was related to me many years ago by my grandfather J.H. "Johnny" Jackson who was a CPR fireman at the time. R.L.Kennedy

Here is 2231 years later eastbound at Peterboro with the Havelock Way Freight. May 4, 1956

G1v 2234 on the shop track at Lambton. Circa 1939-40's Bud Laws Collection

G3d 2332 (MLW #66770 8/26) on the shop track. Note the 6-wheeled trucks on 12,000 gallon tender.
Painted Tuscan Red. 5/8/57 Bruce Chapman collection

G3d 2334 (MLW #66772 9/26) with smaller tender. Painted black.
10/16/57 Bill Caruthers/Bruce Chapman Collection.

Note: This engine and 2333 (Tuscan red, large tender) had been transferred dead from Winnipeg (assigned to Moose Jaw)
in December of 1956 and put into service January 1957. Cab interior of Western Lines engines was a brighter green than
Eastern Lines. Gray smokebox and red (not Tuscan) cab doors were other features often found on Western Lines engines.
Not evident but noticeable inside the cab was good insulation around the many holes where pipes etc. entered
something the crews would have appreciated in winter!

2800 first of the H1 class 4-6-4's on outbound shop track likely being dispatched to Trenton. 9/04/1957 L B Chapman

Two views of H1a 2807 with inboard smoke deflectors. Lambton shop track.

2807 with inboard smoke deflectors. Harry R. Wales/Bud Laws Collection

Here is 2807 again, this time with the more traditional style of smoke deflectors.
Belleville April 1945 Bud Laws Collection

2810 another engine with trial inboard smoke deflectors. Walter Pfefferle Collection

2810 with standard style smoke deflectors. Lambton 7/1949 Stan Styles/Bruce Chapman Collection

H1b 2819 (MLW #68538 12/30) likely on an east train (possibly 902) sitting in (3 ?) Lambton yard waiting to go.
4/4/1958 Bruce Chapman Collection
Note: This was the last standard Hudson. It would be late in the Great Depression before any more engines were built
and when they came (9/37) they would be semi-streamlined and soon become the famous Royal Hudsons.

H1d 2855 transferred 3/57 from John Street to London downgraded from passenger service. Bud Laws Collection

N2b 3704 switching at Oshawa July 17, 1940 MLW 51551 10/1912 Bud Laws Collection

Mudhen 3714 on the shop track at Lambton 1946. Note old style slanted number boards. Bud Laws Collection

P1d 5114 appears to be heading Fourth Class train from London just east of the Humber River
approaching Scarlett Road to enter Lambton Yard. May 1947 Bud Laws Collection

5114 one of several P1's assigned to London which power only worked home from Lambton. Bud Laws Collection

A filthy 5116 won't likely get cleaned at Lambton since it was probably a London engine. Bud Laws Collection
This white stuff is boiler blowdown mud and the excessive amount indicates the fireman had
trouble on the last trip possibly due to engine being close to its monthly boiler washout.

P2b 5316 on the Lambton Yard shop track next to what appears to be the dismantled wooden coal tower.
A modern concrete one was located farther west (left) out of camera view. June 1946 Bud Laws Collection
Blueprint 1943

P2c 5328 (20 engines 5325-5344) taking water on the shop track. Bud Laws Collection

P2e 5368 (20 engines 5360-5379 CLC ) Bud Laws Collection

P2e 5375 CLC 1789 11/1926 Bud Laws Collection

5403 second last old style engine before semi-streamlining. (P2f 5380-5404 25 engines MLW 1928) Bud Laws Collection

P2g 5410 (5405-5416 12 engines built MLW 1940) with London engine 2827 which normally worked west to Windsor.
1958-59 Bud Laws Collection

P2h 5417 (5417-36 20 engines CLC) a filthy London Division engine in off its train. CLC #2022 4/1943
June 2, 1949 Bud Laws Collection

Alco FA1 4006 (76858 6/49) and MLW FA1 4017 (77312 8/50) with other diesels on the shop tracks.
Note the float level indicating an empty water tank in the background. The CPR is dieselized.
7/06/1961 Peter A Cox

4006-4402 Alco FA1 and FB1 #76858, 76880 5/49, at Runnymede Rd. looking north.
Note the early paint scheme with pointed grey panel. Oct. 23,1955 Don McCartney Collection

Note: To see more road and assist engines on Lambton trains, see Articles on
Bruce Division, Trenton Division, and London Division, also Toronto Division

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Lambton Road Engines

Lambton road engines can also be seen in the various feature articles for the Bruce and Trenton Divisions
as well as assist engines working the London Division.

D10 999 (ex DAR 999) MLW 50973 5/1912 sitting outside the roundhouse near a small overhead crane just out of view.
This engine worked single shift assignments such as the Obico and Canpa Turn. Circa 1958 Bruce Chapman Collection
It has been preserved at the Canadian Railway Museum/Exporail (Delson)

D10h 1004 (MLW 50978 5/12) June 27, 1959 Bob Krane

D10h 1088 (1087-1111 25 engines and last D10) CLC 1124 9/1913 Toronto 1953 Walter Pfefferle Collection

2203 CPR 1483 9/06 class G1c rebuilt 6/27 as G1r with 22 1/2" x 28" cyl. and a new boiler of 200 lbs. pressure.
May 11, 1959 James A. Brown

Note: The table "boy" was a labourer although unlike a call boy this was not an entry level position.
These engines in their final form with vestibule cab and larger tender had a very appealing appearance.
The Elesco feedwater heater atop the smokebox set off the engine along with the Pyle National headlight.
By this time it and several other 2200's were used primarily as assist engines on west trains to Orrs Lake
and north trains to Bolton. Although hand-fired they were good steaming engines and well-liked for this duty.

G1a 2212 still with open cab and small tender.Toronto June 4, 1939 Bud Laws Collection

G1t 2228 a fine looking engine and very capable. They were well-liked by enginemen.
1959 L.B.Chapman Collection

2231 Built CPR 6/1914 G1g r/b as G1v 1/1923 with 22 1/2" x 28" cyl. retaining old boiler 200 lbs. t.e. 32%
April 6, 1939 James A. Brown Collection

Note: This engine was used on a Royal train in 1919 carrying Edward Prince of Wales on a tour of Canada and the United States. His Royal Highness would later become King Edward VIII in January of 1936 only to abdicate in December living out the rest of his life as the Duke of Windsor. Edward ran 2231 from Flavelle (Mile 20.9) through Brighton (Mile 9.9) to Trenton with engineer Harry Flood guiding him and accompanied by Bernard "Monty" Montgomery who would go on to fame in World War Two defeating Rommel in North Africa, a decisive battle that led to the fall of Germany. When approaching Brighton Flood told Edward to blow the whistle for Brighton. He called across the cab "Hi Monty, Brighton, dear old Brighton-by-the-Sea". "Blow the whistle" yelled the engineer as they raced towards tiny Brighton nothing like the famed resort in England. Upon arrival in Trenton Edward climbed down from the cab and handed the fireman back his gloves whereupon the shop labourer sent to clean the fire offered him $5 (about a day's pay back then) for the gloves which he turned down. This story was related to me many years ago by my grandfather J.H. "Johnny" Jackson who was a CPR fireman at the time. R.L.Kennedy

Here is 2231 years later eastbound at Peterboro with the Havelock Way Freight. May 4, 1956

G1v 2234 on the shop track at Lambton. Circa 1939-40's Bud Laws Collection

G3d 2332 (MLW #66770 8/26) on the shop track. Note the 6-wheeled trucks on 12,000 gallon tender.
Painted Tuscan Red. 5/8/57 Bruce Chapman collection

G3d 2334 (MLW #66772 9/26) with smaller tender. Painted black.
10/16/57 Bill Caruthers/Bruce Chapman Collection.

Note: This engine and 2333 (Tuscan red, large tender) had been transferred dead from Winnipeg (assigned to Moose Jaw)
in December of 1956 and put into service January 1957. Cab interior of Western Lines engines was a brighter green than
Eastern Lines. Gray smokebox and red (not Tuscan) cab doors were other features often found on Western Lines engines.
Not evident but noticeable inside the cab was good insulation around the many holes where pipes etc. entered
something the crews would have appreciated in winter!

2800 first of the H1 class 4-6-4's on outbound shop track likely being dispatched to Trenton. 9/04/1957 L B Chapman

Two views of H1a 2807 with inboard smoke deflectors. Lambton shop track.

2807 with inboard smoke deflectors. Harry R. Wales/Bud Laws Collection

Here is 2807 again, this time with the more traditional style of smoke deflectors.
Belleville April 1945 Bud Laws Collection

2810 another engine with trial inboard smoke deflectors. Walter Pfefferle Collection

2810 with standard style smoke deflectors. Lambton 7/1949 Stan Styles/Bruce Chapman Collection

H1b 2819 (MLW #68538 12/30) likely on an east train (possibly 902) sitting in (3 ?) Lambton yard waiting to go.
4/4/1958 Bruce Chapman Collection
Note: This was the last standard Hudson. It would be late in the Great Depression before any more engines were built
and when they came (9/37) they would be semi-streamlined and soon become the famous Royal Hudsons.

H1d 2855 transferred 3/57 from John Street to London downgraded from passenger service. Bud Laws Collection

N2b 3704 switching at Oshawa July 17, 1940 MLW 51551 10/1912 Bud Laws Collection

Mudhen 3714 on the shop track at Lambton 1946. Note old style slanted number boards. Bud Laws Collection

P1d 5114 appears to be heading Fourth Class train from London just east of the Humber River
approaching Scarlett Road to enter Lambton Yard. May 1947 Bud Laws Collection

5114 one of several P1's assigned to London which power only worked home from Lambton. Bud Laws Collection

A filthy 5116 won't likely get cleaned at Lambton since it was probably a London engine. Bud Laws Collection
This white stuff is boiler blowdown mud and the excessive amount indicates the fireman had
trouble on the last trip possibly due to engine being close to its monthly boiler washout.

P2b 5316 on the Lambton Yard shop track next to what appears to be the dismantled wooden coal tower.
A modern concrete one was located farther west (left) out of camera view. June 1946 Bud Laws Collection
Blueprint 1943

P2c 5328 (20 engines 5325-5344) taking water on the shop track. Bud Laws Collection

P2e 5368 (20 engines 5360-5379 CLC ) Bud Laws Collection

P2e 5375 CLC 1789 11/1926 Bud Laws Collection

5403 second last old style engine before semi-streamlining. (P2f 5380-5404 25 engines MLW 1928) Bud Laws Collection

P2g 5410 (5405-5416 12 engines built MLW 1940) with London engine 2827 which normally worked west to Windsor.
1958-59 Bud Laws Collection

P2h 5417 (5417-36 20 engines CLC) a filthy London Division engine in off its train. CLC #2022 4/1943
June 2, 1949 Bud Laws Collection

Alco FA1 4006 (76858 6/49) and MLW FA1 4017 (77312 8/50) with other diesels on the shop tracks.
Note the float level indicating an empty water tank in the background. The CPR is dieselized.
7/06/1961 Peter A Cox

4006-4402 Alco FA1 and FB1 #76858, 76880 5/49, at Runnymede Rd. looking north.
Note the early paint scheme with pointed grey panel. Oct. 23,1955 Don McCartney Collection

Note: To see more road and assist engines on Lambton trains, see Articles on
Bruce Division, Trenton Division, and London Division, also Toronto Division