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Canadian Pacific Railway
London Division London Division Power Steam Locomotives Assigned to London Division: July 1957 The assignment of motive power (locomotives) on the Ontario District saw London at the bottom of the pile. Old well-worn P1's (5100 series 2-8-2's) and slightly newer P2's, along with old G2 (2500 4-6-2's) plus D-10 class 4-6-0's on the branches, made up the bulk of the steam locomotives. Old M4 class 2-8-0's in Windsor and London yards and a couple of 0-6-0's at Goderich and Guelph. Only a handful of newer steam engines were allotted to London.
D10g 887 displaying signals running as a section at Chatham D'Arcy Furlonger Collection
G5b 1221 Chatham March 16, 1946 D'Arcy Furlonger Collection
G5b 1223 engineer oiling around while the fireman takes water at Chatham. D'Arcy Furlonger Collection
G5c 1270 sitting outside the shop on a radial track off the table. September 2, 1956 Howard Davis
This great slide of G1 class 2200 with what is believed to be eastbound third class train 80 or 82 and apparently taken as it heads into the passing track at Ringold (Mile 70.9) on the Windsor Subdivision just west of Chatham around 1958-59. Excessive black smoke is a good indication of a stoker-fired engine. One of only three G1's (+ 2202, 2219) so equipped around 1950 following the early end of the G5 production. Robert H. Lorenz/Bruce Chapman Collection
2200 assisting 2415 on a time card train (notice no signals displayed). Possibly westbound at Galt.
G1s 2214 on the shop track possibly being dispatched
on a Hyde Park assist.
G2s class 2582 with standard size tender. (Three
years earlier it still had a small 5,000 gallon tender)
G2u 2646 Chatham D'Arcy Furlonger Collection
G2u 2664 on the table at Windsor. c.1940's Harry Hart/Robin Hart Collection
P1d 5111 displaying signals and running as a section
of an eastbound Third Class train.
5160 London August 13, 1939 Robert Olmstead/Bud Laws Collection
Class P1e 5178 23" x 32" cyl. 63"drv.
190 lbs. pressure 43,400 t.e. (ex 5078 MLW #52765 Sept. 1913)
5180 displaying green signals has been stopped by
the train order signal at Haycroft on the Windsor Sub. near Tilbury.
P2e 5370 on the shop track at London.
Class P2e 5375 23" x 32" cyl. 63" drv.
57,100 t.e. 250 lbs. pressure. CLC #1789 Nov.1926
P2g 5414 with 275 lbs. and 57,500 t.e. 18-ton, 10,000
gals. MLW 69284 8/40 Diesel Engines Diesels came to the yard first, with "Made in London" GMD SW8 800HP yard switchers along with ALCO S2 1000HP switchers 7062 and 7063 in Windsor. The last 0-6-0 anywhere on the CPR, 6275 finished up in Goderich yard at 12 noon Saturday December 6, 1958 and was replaced by MLW S3 6589 until delivery in early May of 1959 of a new, tiny 500HP CLC diesel-hydraulic switcher, number 17. Road freight diesels came in the form of MLW RS-3's and FA2 "covered wagon" A and B units, later MLW RS-10's and RS-18's all of which were maintained at St.Luc (Montreal) as roundhouses everywhere were scaled back or closed down.
8163 SW1200RS Quebec Street roundhouse London October 1969 Bob Heathorh Collection Woodstock area branch lines were operated by SW1200RS 1200 HP units, a Canadian-only GMD model designed specifically to replace D-10's and other light road engines. The CPR referred to these small road switcher units, and MLW RS-23 1000 HP road switchers officially as BLU's, Branch Line Units. Un-officially they were called "pups"! After their week's work was done on the branch they would be gathered up and sent out on a main line freight to Toronto and back. This increased wear-and-tear on the units which were on a lower maintenance schedule in consideration of their lighter duty compared to the more typical round-the-clock service of the bigger main line road units.
RS-18 8737 MLW 81612 4/1957 Windsor 4/19/1987 John Lameck/Sam Beck Collection
Gallery 1 ........
steam and diesel
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