Canadian Pacific Railway

Ottawa West and Ottawa Terminal

Hail! Hail! The gang's all here. 241 on the table at old Ottawa West roundhouse. Circa 1890 Kevin Day Collection
Acquired 6/1882 ex QM&O 14 St.Laurent Manchester Locomotive Works #741 11/1876

A very old picture of Ottawa Union from the Laurier Avenue bridge looking westward towards the Chateau Laurier with the winter snows from the station grounds pushed into the Rideau Canal. Freight shed at right. L. B. Chapman Collection

D4g 433 has arrived off #91, the Rigaud Wayfreight and will back over to the roundhouse and the crew will book off duty.
This train left Ottawa West Monday, Wednesday and Friday to Rigaud Quebec, just inside the Quebec border from Ontario
on the line to Montreal, and returned to Ottawa Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

When I started hanging around Ottawa West station about 1953, my uncle was the regular engineer
on this job with this engine, and that may be him in the cab for all I know. L B C

Addy Schwalm/L.B. Chapman Collection

D4g 449 was the regular Waltham passenger engine in the late 1940's, and here he is about to cross the Alexandra/Interprovincial bridge heading to Hull with his train #543. Addy Schwalm/L.B. Chapman Collection

D4g 449 on the Waltham passenger train flying white extra flags. It is April 1946, and the Interprovincial Bridge was closed due to a fire at the E. B. Eddy plant in Hull at the north end of the bridge. The bridge was closed for repairs for some time,
and all trains leaving old Ottawa Union heading to Waltham, Maniwaki, Carleton Place and Montreal via the north shore had to head east to Hurdman on the M&O Subdivision, turn south on the Sussex Street Subdivision to Ellwood, then go around the wye track and head north into Ottawa West. There they had to reverse position if they were heading to Quebec and head north over the Prince of Wales Bridge. Addy Schwalm/L.B. Chapman Collection

D4g 471 is heading west onto the Carleton Place Subdivision from the yard, and then will to back over to Hull West
and then head west on the Waltham Subdivision as #95. Addy Schwalm/L.B. Chapman Collection

D4g 472 running extra at this point is pulling westward towards the Carleton Place Subdivision just past Ottawa West station. After securing a clearance and the staff, he will back over the Prince of Wales Bridge to Hull West, and start his westward journey as #95 to Waltham. Before Wamo was constructed in early 1957, freight trains for Waltham had to back over to/from Hull West to/from Ottawa West, then head west as #95, returning eastward as #96.
Addy Schwalm/L.B. Chapman Collection

473 all coaled up by the old chutes which were replaced in early 1950's.
Al Paterson/Bruce Chapman Collection

G5b 1219 (MLW 10/1945) leaving Ottawa Union with #559/263, the afternoon Pool
train to Brockville from track #2. On track #1 is the passenger/mixed for
Waltham Quebec with a D4g. Bruce Chapman Collection

G5b 1226 (MLW 73743 10/1945) Taking water on a wet day late in August 1958. Ian Taylor

G5c 1261 (CLC 11/1946) at Ottawa Union with the barracks behind across the Rideau Canal.
9/1954 Al Paterson/L.B.Chapman Collection

1265 on the shop track Ottawa West July 1947 Stan Styles/Bruce Chapman Collection

G5c 1267 (CLC 1/1947) at Ottawa Union, north of the Laurier Avenue bridge,
with CNR 8052 MLW S4 behind, 8/30/1958 Al Paterson/L.B.Chapman Collection

G1 class 2207 and a smoke-deflectored engine, likely a G3 class 2300. L.B.Chapman Collection

Very unusual, but the odd time the shop would put engines out through pit #23 to head out for a train
at Union instead of around the Prescott Sub. wye to the station, which is in the background.
2207 might well have been dispatched on the Prescott Way Freight shown below.

G1 2207 on #94, the Prescott wayfreight at Bedell 09/18/1948 Walter Casselman/L.B.Chapman Collection

G3 2399, Ottawa West, 07/08/1955, photo by W.M.Hayes/L.B.Chapman Collection

It is early morning, and 2399 is just arriving for servicing at the shop after arriving at Ottawa Union on the overnight pool train from Toronto, either #24 (via Toronto) or #34 (via Havelock). Our poor old crippled switchtender Bill Burgess will line the switch back for the main line of the M&O/Carleton Place Subdivision after 2399 clears.

Note: Men injured on duty were given preference for switchtender, baggageman, crossing watchman or gateman postions.

G3 Class 2401 (2461) near the old coal chutes soon to be replaced.
Stock car spotted at Stores Department carried OCS parts from Angus.
c. 1950 L. B. Chapman Collection

G3h 2459 (CLC 3/1945) sitting at Ottawa Union with #504/234 to Montreal in the afternoon; old post office behind engine.
L. B. Chapman Collection

G3j 2467 (MLW 6/1948) leaving Ottawa Union with the afternoon train #504/234
for Montreal, from the Laurier Avenue bridge. L. B. Chapman Collection

2822 with Pool train #232 (note CNR car second from rear) at Deep Cut east end of Ottawa Union Station due to depart 7.55 A.M. Daily except Sunday non-stop to Montreal. Stopping at Montreal West, Westmount and due to arrive Windsor Station at 9.55 A.M. 7/1958 Joseph Testagrose Collection

Pool train #232 at Deep Cut heading to Montreal. That’s the Rideau Canal to the left of the engine; he’s crossing over from the CNR Alexandria Subdivision to the CPR M&O Subdivision. Don’t know what that car right behind the engine is, probably ‘storage’ mail for Montreal. #232 had an RPO, baggage, 2 coaches and 2 parlours, one of them a buffet parlour with dining service and the other a CNR car having a drawing room. 2822 made all but four of the 31 roundtrips during July including 236 Sunday evenings to Montreal operated in place of the morning 232. Missed trips: Monday the 7th and 14th 2859 dispatched. 21st. 2821 and on the 28th. 2826. L B C

H1c Royal Hudson 2828 (MLW 10/1937) leaving Ottawa Union for Montreal. L. B. Chapman Collection

Last H1d Royal Hudson 2859. Happy 20th.birthday! MLW 69109 8/1938
Another wet August day in Ottawa 8/30/1958 Ian Taylor

Only five more 2800's were built two years later as oil-fired engines for Western Lines.
These were the only Royal Hudsons built as such, all others were so designated after the 1939 Royal Tour.

M4d 3426 Cyl. 21" x 28" Drv. 58" Press. 200 lbs. t.e. 36% Schnectady 30276 10/1904
Still with a single air "pump" and old style high mounted headlight and bell mount.
Whistle shroud to direct sound away from crew. Note Canadian-only combination pilot.
Ottawa October 15, 1958 Dick George/Paterson-George Collection.

M4g 3528 Cyl. 22 1/2" x 28" Drv. 58" Press. 180 lbs. t.e. 37% Baldwin 31254 7/1907
Switching in Ottawa June 1946 Bud Laws Collection

 

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