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By:Gary Everhart
Dates:4/1/1943 - 8/23/1955
Album Info:these are three older b&w photos of Canadian National 2-8-0 Consolidations.
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CN 2-8-0 #2500
Title:  CN 2-8-0 #2500
Description:  Built by the Montreal Locomotive Works originally as CNoR #2500, the loco served the Canadian National Railway until retirement and being scrapped in March of 1960. Specs - serial #59447, clas N-2-b, 63" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 24x32" cylinders, engine weight of 241,500 lb, and tractive effort of 49,737 lb. Arthur B. Johnson photo
Photo Date:  10/31/1948  Upload Date: 10/31/2021 7:37:16 AM
Location:  Brandon, MB
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CN 2500(2-8-0)
Views:  149   Comments: 0
CN 2-8-0 #2125
Title:  CN 2-8-0 #2125
Description:  Long before a GE Dash-8 loco carried the CN number 2125, this 2-8-0 Consolidation had the honor. Built by Alco-Brooks in 1911, this loco served DWP and then CN for nearly 47 years until it was retired and scrapped in December of 1958. Specs - class M-3-c, serial #50279, 57" drivers, 180 psi boiler pressure, 23x26" cylinders, engine weight of 188,000 lb, tractive effort of 36,919 lb. This is an Arthur B. Johnson photo.
Photo Date:  8/23/1955  Upload Date: 10/31/2021 7:37:14 AM
Location:  Saskatoon, SK
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CN 2125(2-8-0)
Views:  187   Comments: 0
CN 2-8-0 #2566
Title:  CN 2-8-0 #2566
Description:  Interesting note on the back of this photo "No data available with the C. H. Heels photo. However . . . sign identifies location as Shields (MI45.62 Midland Sub, 2.95 miles west of Orillia); 20 mph slow order sign marks curve west of Shields, where speed limit was raised from 20 to 30 mph in June 1946; Passenger train is eastbound (away from curve); low sun suggests early morning and budding leaves suggest late April. Conculsion is that extra west (2-8-0's 2536 and 2566) is in the siding at Shields to meet train 42 (4-6-2 #5281), due at orillia at 7:15 am en route from Midland to Toronto. Smoke deflectors on #5261 suggest a spring date in the 1940's no later than 1946." This C. H. Heels photo came from the James A Brown collection.
Photo Date:  8/23/1955  Upload Date: 10/31/2021 7:37:19 AM
Location:  Shields, SK
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CN 2566(2-8-0)
Views:  119   Comments: 1


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