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Pounding by Drumbo station, Extra 5187 West is recovering speed after picking up orders. It is March 8,1958 and the cold, blustery weather shows up every steam leak on the old girl. No. 5187 was a class P1e engine, 2-8-2 Mikado, built by MLW in September 1913. At that time she was P1b No. 5087 but between 1926 and 1930, the CPR carried out an extensive rebuilding programme on all 95 P1 's. They received new cylinders and the boiler pressure was increased from 180 Ibs. to 190 Ibs./square inch. With the rebuilding, the number series was changed from 5000 to 5100, and No. 5187 was rebuilt in April 1926 and was the third of the class to be dealt with. Originally, they were constructed as hand fired engines but later acquired stokers of the Standard HT-1 type. A few engines, assigned to the Western Lines, including Nos. 5101, 5104, 5120, 5121 and 5155, were converted to oil burners.

Through the years, all the 5100 series locomotives, except Nos. 5164 and 5190, received Elesco, bundle type, feedwater heaters and pumps. No. 5164, a Quebec District engine, was fitted with a Coffin type feedwater heater, which was mounted on the front of the smoke-box. This was concave in shape and gave the locomotive a rather ugly appearance. No. 5190, a Western engine, was equipped with an Elesco exhaust steam injector. No. 5187 was assigned to the London Division during the 1950's, operating mostly on the Toronto to London run, and out of Hamilton to Guelph Junction. Withdrawn from service in mid-1959, she was scrapped at Angus on October 25, 1961.

The station at Drumbo dates back to the days of the Credit Valley Railway, which was completed in 1879. This road was amalgamated with the Ontario and Quebec Railway in 1883 and absorbed by the CPR in the following year. Near the station is a crossing with a branch of the CNR, which runs from Stratford to Paris Junction. Initially a part of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway which went into operation in June 1858, it was absorbed into the Grand Trunk system in July 1864, and after 1919, became part of the CNR.

Drumbo station served as a train order office for many years. A Day Station in the 1890's, it became a Day-Night Station for a short time after the turn of the century, then reverting to a Day Station until around World War Two, when once again it became a Day-Night Station. Its call signal was "D". The beginning of the end came in 1962, when the passing track facilities were removed and by 1964, the station was no longer a train order office and was later taken away. By 1977, the name itself was dropped from the operating timetable. W.H.N.Rossiter

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Pounding by Drumbo station, Extra 5187 West is recovering speed after picking up orders. It is March 8,1958 and the cold, blustery weather shows up every steam leak on the old girl. No. 5187 was a class P1e engine, 2-8-2 Mikado, built by MLW in September 1913. At that time she was P1b No. 5087 but between 1926 and 1930, the CPR carried out an extensive rebuilding programme on all 95 P1 's. They received new cylinders and the boiler pressure was increased from 180 Ibs. to 190 Ibs./square inch. With the rebuilding, the number series was changed from 5000 to 5100, and No. 5187 was rebuilt in April 1926 and was the third of the class to be dealt with. Originally, they were constructed as hand fired engines but later acquired stokers of the Standard HT-1 type. A few engines, assigned to the Western Lines, including Nos. 5101, 5104, 5120, 5121 and 5155, were converted to oil burners.

Through the years, all the 5100 series locomotives, except Nos. 5164 and 5190, received Elesco, bundle type, feedwater heaters and pumps. No. 5164, a Quebec District engine, was fitted with a Coffin type feedwater heater, which was mounted on the front of the smoke-box. This was concave in shape and gave the locomotive a rather ugly appearance. No. 5190, a Western engine, was equipped with an Elesco exhaust steam injector. No. 5187 was assigned to the London Division during the 1950's, operating mostly on the Toronto to London run, and out of Hamilton to Guelph Junction. Withdrawn from service in mid-1959, she was scrapped at Angus on October 25, 1961.

The station at Drumbo dates back to the days of the Credit Valley Railway, which was completed in 1879. This road was amalgamated with the Ontario and Quebec Railway in 1883 and absorbed by the CPR in the following year. Near the station is a crossing with a branch of the CNR, which runs from Stratford to Paris Junction. Initially a part of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway which went into operation in June 1858, it was absorbed into the Grand Trunk system in July 1864, and after 1919, became part of the CNR.

Drumbo station served as a train order office for many years. A Day Station in the 1890's, it became a Day-Night Station for a short time after the turn of the century, then reverting to a Day Station until around World War Two, when once again it became a Day-Night Station. Its call signal was "D". The beginning of the end came in 1962, when the passing track facilities were removed and by 1964, the station was no longer a train order office and was later taken away. By 1977, the name itself was dropped from the operating timetable. W.H.N.Rossiter