Hi to all;
Re: Mark Beltranos' question and the reply from P. Bowers. The plow
pilots were used during the late fall, winter, and early spring months
on both the class T1a and T1b Selkirks until the mid to late 1940s
(c.1946 to 1948) when it was decided to simply leave them on the entire
year. This was the case from then until 1952/53 when they were
re-assigned from the Revelstoke to Calgary mountainous territory to the
Canadian prairies. At that time the plows were permanently removed from
all of the T1a and b classes.
The T1cs, which were delivered in early 1949 from Montreal Loco. Works,
came to Calgary without plow pilots. They were immediately applied
before they went into service on the Mountain and Laggan Subs., and
remained on year round as was the case with the other 2-10-4s until they
too were permanently removed from service in the mountains and sent to
the prairies. Hope this answers your question.
Ray Matthews
