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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.

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