CPR G5 Class 4-6-2

G5a 1201 when it was just another G5. CPR Angus 6/1944 Montreal, September 1, 1951. Bud Laws Collection
One of two prototype modern Pacific type dual service locomotives intended to replace hundreds of older Pacifics and Ten-Wheelers. Orders for 100 were placed with MLW and CLC out of a planned 600 were all that happened due to dieselization. 1201 is stored, hidden from the public at the Canada Science & Technology Museum in Ottawa.

G5c 1256 with Sunday morning passenger train to Ste.Agathe, QC. CLC 2352 11/46
Montreal West November 10, 1957 Bob Krone

G5c 1269 with suburban train (above and below) leaving Windsor Station in Montreal. July 4, 1954 John Dziobko
Note: Wooden, steel underframe (S.U.F.) commuter coaches were still in use and in fine appearance.

G5d 1278 back when it too was just another "Twelve Hundred". CLC 2435 4/48
Assiniboia shop track 1950's Ron Bearman

G5d 1287 with train 320 is approaching west yard lead. I was standing on boxcar roof on team track.
Mail clerk standing in door of mail end of mail and express car 3562 for train 310 to Weyburn.
In background, looks like yard eng switching out track 8. Circa 1951 Assiniboia SK Ron Bearman

Another view of the same engine on train 319, rounding the curve coming off the Expanse Sub and on the Main Line to Assiniboia station. Track to right is the Assiniboia Sub (to Weyburn) and this is the Assiniboia wye (other 'leg' in background).

G5d 1289 CLC 2446 6/48 Moose Jaw 4-30-55 Max Miller/Bud Laws Collection

Only another dozen G5's would be built after 1289 yet hundreds more had been planned. Diesels changed all that.