Continued Discussion on CPR Steam Locomotives-"Feedwater Heaters" &
"Locomotive Tenders"- Part #3
Going back to to CPR's light 4-6-2 G-1 and G-2 "Pacific" Type passenger
power:
During 1927 and early 1930's when the company commenced building larger
capacity 12-wheel tenders for their heavy G-3 2300's (2300 to 2350) and
G-4 Heavy 4-6-2's of the 2700 series., there are no records as far as I
know what happened to the 8,000 gallon tenders from the heavy-4-6-2's
but looking at photographs no doubt these 8-wheel tenders went to the
upgrading and modernization program for the 2200 and 2500's and possibly
the sister 2600's. The British Columbia assigned 2700's (oil fired) kept
their 8-wheel tenders.
On one of my Trans-Continental trips back in 1957, while at Moose Jaw,
Sask.; observed light 4-6-2 2533, a smart looking locomotive, well
groomed and maintained on a mixed passenger. 2533 was refitted with a
larger capacity tender-10,000 Imp. gallons for water, and 18 ton
capacity for coal, and 8-wheel tender from one of the (likely) retired
semi-streamlined heavy 4-6-2's of the 2351 to 2389 series-Western Region
power. Or could came from one of the same when receiving a 12-wheel
tender in the late 1940-early 1950 era.
Speaking of light 4-6-2 2533, in the early 1930's this particular
locomotive was some of the power handling the "Great West Express"
between Winnipeg-Yorkton-Saskatoon-Edmonton.
When CPR purchased the Algoma Eastern years ago, CP inherited a number
of 2-8-0's altogether different in design from the lines of a CP
locomotive. Two locomotives that I know of were equipped with feedwater
heaters; engines 3955 and 3956. Observed 3956 at Sudbury, Ontario in
June of 1956.
Canadian Pacific Railway's Locomotive New Modernization
Programme-Semi-streamlined & Streamlined Power:
CPR's steam had a distinction of all its own-"Clean Design"-noted for
the "Air Reverse Gear", "Poppet Valves"-(puff of smoke coming out at the
top of the locomotive's Cylinders) as the engineer opened the trottle.
In 1935-CPR in its moderzization programme painted 4-6-4 "Hudson" Type
locomotive 2802 into th railway's "Tuscan Red-grey--black-gold" paint
scheme. The running boards were widened-with Panelled Running Boards. A
Wider panell for the locomotive's number, and a panell under the cab
windows-with the Canadian Pacific "All System" Shield Logo-part being
blue; for the railway it read: Canadian Pacific, next line underneath
Railway Lines, the a small globe, reading World"s Greatest Travel
System", all future power this practice continued, until 1946 when CP
came out with the Beaver & Shield logo and the new logo with the CP
"Script lettering-eg: Canadian Pacific-the globe underneath "Spans The
World".
Others to follow in 1935 were: 4-6-4 "Hudson" 2813, heavy 4-6-2
"Pacific"s 2323, 2332.2350. 4-8-4 "Northern" 3101.
In 1936- Heavy 4-6-2's 2300, 2304, 2307, 2313, 2318, 2322, 2325, 2327,
2328, 2329, 2333, 2335, 2714, 2715, 4-6-4 "Hudson's" 2803, 2804, 2805,
2806, 2807, 2808, 2810, 2812, 4-8-4 "Northern" 3100.
