CPR G3 class 2300 4-6-2
All 75 inch diameter drivers.

These G3 class stoker-equipped 4-6-2's were a big improvement over earlier hand-fired G1 and G2 Pacific types.
The first ten were built by Angus and the rest by Montreal Locomotive Works.

G3a 2300-2303 Cyl 25" x 30" 200 lbs. 42,500 t.e.
G3b 2304-2309 same specifications
G3c 2310-2325 same specifications
G3d 2326-2350 23" x 30" 250 lbs 45,000 t.e.
Six-wheel truck tender carried 12,000 gallons of water and 21 tons of coal, or, 4,700 gals. fuel oil.
Four-wheel truck tenders carryied 18 tons of coal and 10,000 gallons of water.

2305 (CPR Aug.1920) on the shop track at the Glen in Montreal. April 1933. Alan R. Christmas/Bud Laws Collection

Publicity photograph prior to introduction of the short-lived all-sleeping car Trans-Canada Limited.
Windsor Station, Montreal. May 1929.
G3d 2327 MLW #66765 8/26

Note: Passenger equipment was painted Tuscan red with gold leaf lettering however,
locomotives were still black until 1935 by which time the train was long gone.

G3d 2328 downgraded to freight service but still in passenger colours although lacking white tyres and other trim.

2331 with westbound time freight (965?) passing the Government elevators at Moose Jaw as seen from a Secretan Pit Turn returning with empty hopper cars. Operator and photographer Ron Bearman is riding the van between work and home.