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.
This was the start of CPR passenger power being painted to the "New
Scheme"
Canadian Pacific's "Dominion Atlantic Railway" in Nova Scotia:
CPR subsidiary, the Dominion Atlantic Railway in Nova Scotia commenced
sprucing their power to tuscan red also.
Power: 4-6-0's of the 500 series, heavier D-10's of the 900 and 1000
series, light 4-6-2's 2511, 2551, 2552.
The Dominion Atlantic went even further: A good number of the above
power received "White Smoke Box" around the Cylinders-gold pin stripes,
the same around the locomotive numbers on the cab, and tenders, with the
DAR logo "Dominion Atlantic Railway, then letters "Land of Evangeline
Route" and the Lady in the centre of the logo "Evangeline" herself. A
good majority of the motive power fleet sported a brass name plate on
the centre of the locomotives' running board. Exsample: 4-6-2's 2511
"Subercase", 2551 "Halifax", 2552 "Haliburton", 4-6-0 names "Digby",
"Windsor". "Blomindon", "Yarmouth". A number of locomotives named after
early French explorers who settled also in Nova Scotia, and British
names. The DAR saga is too long to go into detail.
The first three light 4-6-2,s to arrive on the DAR in the 1930's were
never rebuilt having vestibule cabs and larger tenders. 2511 and 2551
kept their "Bob-Tail" tenders, as well never received feedwater heaters.
Newer rebuilt light 4-6-2's of the 2500 and 2600 series arrived after
1946 and 1947. Only one 2200 class ever to run in Nova Scotia arrived in
the 1950's prior to dieselization. Famous passenger trains prior to the
Second World War to blaze DAR's rails on the 216 mile main-line
Halifax-Yarmouth, N.S. were named trains " Bostontonian", "Flying
Bluenose", "New Yorker" These trains made connections with passenger
ships operating the Yarmouth-Boston, Yarmouth-New York runs.
