Old Time Trains

Canadian Pacific Railway

Steam Locomotive Gallery

A1e 4-4-0 29 repainted with correct lettering style applied by Streamline Studios.
Gulf Canada Square (CPR headquarters) Calgary June 27, 2012 Rick Janzen

Number 2 Engine 2429 eastbound with The Dominion at Kenora, Ont. Bruce Chapman Collection

5752 with employee train running from Outremont to new St.Luc hump yard. Ron Ritchie

No. 42 engine 2394 doing headend work. Overnight sleeper train from Montreal to Saint John, NB.
Mc.Adam, NB Sat. 5/24/1952 Ken MacDonald/Bruce Chapman Collection

Number 42 was scheduled to be in Mc.Adam for 25 minutes between 9:00 A.M. and 9:25 A.M. having been due to depart Montreal the night before at 7:30 P.M. (Daily Except Sunday.) It was due to arrive in Saint John at 11:35 A.M. These G3 class 75-inch drivered 4-6-2's were very capable engines and well liked by all. Therefore an On Time performance was to be expected. Note the reflection on the side of the tender and running board, proof of its clean condition.

5468 on display at Revelstoke Railway Museum. July 2, 2008 Robert (Rob) Brown
The interior of a steam locomotive cab is as complex looking as an aircraft cockpit to the uninitiated.
Slightly different angle (below) in black and white tends to back date the photo to the steam era.

Signal foam meter to monitor boiler water condition. Mounted on backhead of boiler on Royal Hudsons.

Unknown G3 class 2300 with short passenger train at French River, Ontario.
What is most interesting in this old undated photograph is the extremely short siding!
Likely used to set off a coach for charter groups of sportsmen.
Canadian Pacific Railway/Steve Morris Collection

5766 on westbound passenger train complete with large pilot plow for mountain winter conditions. 1927

N2 class 3700 crossing the swing bridge over the Lachine Canal in Montreal early 1950's.
Canadian Pacific Railway/Steve Morris Collection

Royal Hudson 2840 (MLW 68953 9/1937) outside Union Station Toronto. One of four H1c class engines assigned to The Dominion 811 miles between Toronto and Fort William. Posing for CPR photographer taking photos for CPR travel brochure promoting cross Canada travel. Note the backup airhose attached to front of engine indicating it was not fired up and was moved by another engine. Circa 1952 John C. Clarke Collection

Looking west towards station beyond bridge in the distance. Brandon. Bud Laws Collection

2818 being "wheeled" in backshop. c. 1930's Note the large Whiting hoists used for this heavy work.
Whiting Equipment/Tom Rendall Collection

624 one-of-a-kind 4-6-4T tank engine Cyl. 19" x 22" Drv. 62" CPNS 1194 4/1893
Renumbered 4/06 1950, 2/09 1995 Became T1a 5990 12/1912 Cyl. 18" x 22" Scrapped 9/1924.
Built for Montreal commuter service to Vaudreuil after Windsor Station opened in 1889.
Extended 1893 to Pointe Fortune after lease of the Montreal & Ottawa.
Walter Pfefferle Collection

5993 last of three class T2a 4-6-4T built for Montreal suburban service. CPR 2/1912
Ste. Rose, Que. 1930 Steve Morris Collection

Ontario District engine crews for 1939 Royal Tour trains. 2855 was used as a backdrop only.
It was not used for the Royal trains. John Street April 28, 1939. Collection of H.M. (Mac) Allen

1026 (re# 3230) Only 2-8-0 Camelback. Built by Richmond Locomotive Works #2804 3/1899
Built as a compound with Wooten firebox to burn anthracite coal.
This engine and five D11 camelback 4-6-0's all worked west out of Medicine Hat.

"Distributed Power" in the steam era! Work train near Winnipeg 1957. Joseph Testagrose Collection.

T4a 8000 one-of-a-kind experimental three cylinder high pressure boiler 2-10-4. CPR 5/1931
Cyl. 15 1/2" x 28" and 24" x 30" Drv. 63" Press. 850 lbs. and 250 lbs. t.e 83%
Oil 4, 100 gals. water 11,500 gals. Retired 12/23/1936 Scrapped 12/1940

N2 class 3642 leads a P1 class 5100 and another engine on the Hochelaga Transfer
in the Montreal Terminals as the sky is blackened during the climb upgrade.