For me, the country and the season go together. No 8000 was a three cylinder compound high-pressure experiment built for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. The G5s had 20x28-inch cylinders and 70-inch diameter drivers. Thank you. Combining the reliability of an old and proven design with the efficiency of latter day steam technology, the G5s were instantly successful, and found favor over virtually all of the CP system.".
972, of class D10j, at Reading, Pennsylvania on October 9, 1983.
Sister locomotive No. 2317 to Scranton.
Steamtown's move to Pennsylvania in 1984 brought No.
The U.S. Transportation Safety Board determined that a scale blockage in the water level gage and a leaking check valve between the water feed pump and the boiler were among the factors contributing to the incident, and mandated more stringent safety practices and improvements in operating steam locomotives as a result. They had 22x30-inch cylinders and carried 275 pounds of boiler pressure.
With a grate area of 65 square feet, she has 3530 square feet of evaporative heating surface and 803 square feet of superheater surface, and weighs 319,000 pounds.
2601 sports an Elesco feedwater heater, giving her a proud and dignified look. Canada will have to wait until next year — if we’re lucky. The 4-6-0 or Ten-Wheeler type met this requirement, and the CPR rostered a large number of these engines in several classes.
Text and photo images©2013 Richard Leonard. 2317, together with former Canadian National 2-8-2 No.
136's engineer.
And pay attention many photographers did, including, as the book shows, several excellent Canadian shooters, as well as some of the biggest names on the American scene. The first group, class H1a, is represented here at Chalk River, Ontario, by No.
The National Park Service acquired the bankrupt Steamtown's assets in 1986, and in recent years No.
This route paralleled lines of the Canadian Pacific and allowed us to see and photograph some of its steam power, which was still very active. Canadian Pacific's 4-6-2 No.
With 50 square feet of grate area, they had 2316 square feet of evaporative heating surface and 602 square feet of superheater surface.
The tractive effort would have been about 21,380 pounds following the usual formula. The water in the boiler is under pressure (in this case up to 250 pounds per square inch) which prevents it from becoming steam until well above the normal boiling point.
5361, pictured here, resting between assignments.
If the water level is not maintained over the crown sheet it can warp and rupture.
For local and branch line service, over trackage often laid with lighter rail during a period of rapid railroad expansion in Canada, the Canadian Pacific needed a smaller locomotive that could handle both passenger and freight traffic.
The contrast between the two Canadian transcontinentals, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, is a case in point.
Delivered in several groups by Montreal Locomotive Works, the Royal Hudsons had 75-inch drivers, 22x30-inch cylinders, a boiler pressure of 275 pounds per square inch, and a locomotive weight of 366,000 pounds. 2822 on an eastbound passenger train.
She was acquired in 1963 by F. Nelson Blount, eventually passing to the Steamtown Foundation, and after was owned by the late Jerry Jacobson. 5361 was built in 1926 by the Canadian Locomotive Company.
This stunning level of power was necessary for this locomotive class to complete its job climbing the Allegheny Mountains’ steep grades .
These specifications, together with an engine weight of 229,500 pounds and a boiler pressure of 250 pounds per square inch, gave them a tractive effort of 34,000 pounds. Here we found 2-8-2 No. In the USA the 2-10-4 wheel configuration was called the "Texas" type, but the CPR used the term "Selkirks" after the range of the Rockie mountains that the Railway crossed. Whereas the Canadian National favored the 4-8-4 as a dual-service locomotive, operating more than any other railroad, the Canadian Pacific continued to use the 2-8-2 in heavy main line freight service and even received an order of new ones as late as 1944.
1266, a representative of subclass G5c built by the Canadian Locomotive Company in 1947, performing switching duties.
2822 belonged to class H1c, the first group of Royal Hudsons, and was delivered in 1937. In the photograph, the engineer's posture and the position of the valve gear betray the fact that the engine is moving in reverse, backing boxcars onto a siding. The diesel era, dominated by the products of General Motors' Electro-Motive Division, brought a measure of uniformity to the motive power fleets of North American railroads. accurately observes, “There was never a setting for steam that surpassed Canada.”.
Phil Hastings chose a low angle for his view of CP 4-4-0 No. Canadian National Railway K-5-a Hudson, 1930 CN Hudson 5700 steam engine / locomotive wheels at the Elgin County Railway Museum in St. Thomas, Ontario Unit 8811 heads up two Canadian National Railway locomotives on a cold winter day.
They sustained 190 pounds per square inch of boiler pressure and weighed 109 tons.
Ahead of her unusually tall stack No. 2534 2-8-0 : Brighton, ON: Location: Memory Junction Railway Museum: Status: Display: Album: Video: Notes:
The purpose of the feedwater heater was to use exhaust steam from the cylinders to preheat fresh water going into the boiler. (Notice the embossed gold crown on the side of the running board skirt, over the cylinder.). Most numerous of these was class D10. Please allow up to 24 hours for your comment to be approved. It still holds up, six decades later. Their steaming capacity stemmed from an 81-square-foot grate area, together with an evaporative heating surface of 3791 square feet augmented with 1542 square feet of superheater surface. My late brother David V. Leonard took this transparency of No. No.
3254, have been mainstays of the Steamtown operation. The locomotive was built by Angus Shops in 1931 and was the Canadian Pacific's heaviest steam locomotive. Of this locomotive class, the former Ohio Central web site commented: "Although they were among the last steam locomotives purchased by the Canadian Pacific, the class G5 bore more than a passing resemblance to other CP 4-6-2s built as early as 1905. Steam Locomotives and Steam Trains including Photos (SteamLocos.com and SteamTrains.org) Sorted by URL and not by title.
These Pacifics were built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1911, and had 70-inch drivers and 20x28-inch cylinders. is a showcase of great black-and-white photography.If all had gone according to plan this year, just about now we’d be packing up the car for a road trip to Canada to visit old friends. It’s a slim book, only 141 pages, but inspired photo editing and Art Director David A. Strassman’s generous use of white space give the book a timeless quality. A representative of CPR's G3c class, No. Leave it to the good doctor — that would be Phil Hastings — to get up close and personal, in this case riding in the cab of CP No. Several common types were in use: the Elesco, the Worthington (either side-mounted or in the smokebox) and the Coffin.