Nice older photo of CP 4-4-0 136, when still in service. Still runs today, though with a wooden cab and non-CP lettering on the tender. Ran in New Brunswick into 1960.

http://www.yesteryeardepot.com/CP136.JPG
ryarger@rypn.org

Sister engine which also ran on the Norton-Chipman, NB line into 1960. It hasn't run since 1960, but is safely stored inside at Delson, PQ.

http://www.yesteryeardepot.com/CP144A.JPG
ryarger@rypn.org

We have the cab, headlight and lighted numberboard in that picture -- for a price we'd be happy to re-install them and re-letter the tender for anyone wanting to do a "period" photo shoot. BTW, that D-4 cab looks odd on 136, which is why we've left the wood cab on.

> Nice older photo of CP 4-4-0 136, when still
> in service. Still runs today, though with a
> wooden cab and non-CP lettering on the
> tender. Ran in New Brunswick into 1960.



info@steamtrain.com

> We have the cab, headlight and lighted
> numberboard in that picture -- for a price
> we'd be happy to re-install them and
> re-letter the tender for anyone wanting to
> do a "period" photo shoot. BTW,
> that D-4 cab looks odd on 136, which is why
> we've left the wood cab on.

And just WHAT would the price be?

That's not a gee-whiz request - several people expressed interest in just what you've proposed.

Let's talk.

JAC

I agree about the cab. Can we start a fund raiser to build the D-4 to go under it?

Dreaming...

> We have the cab, headlight and lighted
> numberboard in that picture -- for a price
> we'd be happy to re-install them and
> re-letter the tender for anyone wanting to
> do a "period" photo shoot. BTW,
> that D-4 cab looks odd on 136, which is why
> we've left the wood cab on.

> I agree about the cab. Can we start a fund
> raiser to build the D-4 to go under it?

> Dreaming...

We have to persuade Linn to rebuild ex-CPR 972 WITHOUT a Belpaire firebox, we could recreate a CPR period freight in Pennsylvania.

kevin.r.gillespie@verizon.net

Agreed. The CPR D-10 ten-wheelers are a beautiful class of branchline locos. The thought of having 972 rebuilt as something entirely unique and unprecedented really cuts me. My opinion, for what it's worth, and that's probably nothing, is that she's a sweet Canadian relic. Rebuild her as she was intended to appear.


glueck@maine.edu

Just HOW many CP D-10's were preserved?

Including another one less than a hundred miles from 972, at 972's old home?

It's Strasburg's; they can do what they bloody well want with it. Although I fail to see how adding a Belpaire firebox is going to go anywhere towards making it look Pennsy......

LNER4472-NOSPAM-@bcpl.net

> Just HOW many CP D-10's were preserved?

894 Kitchener, Ontario
926 Ottawa, Ontario
972 Strasburg, PA
999 Delson, Quebec
1057 Tottenham, Ontario
1095 Kingston, Ontario
1098 Jim Thorpe, PA

> It's Strasburg's; they can do what they
> bloody well want with it. Although I fail to
> see how adding a Belpaire firebox is going
> to go anywhere towards making it look
> Pennsy......

Sandy,

I'm not questioning Strasburg's right to do what they want with their equipment. That being said, they seem to have developed a growing respect for the heritage of their steam power. They have recently run 475 in N&W colors, and 89 in CN lettering for John Craft's photo special last fall. I would like to have the possibility of doing the same thing with 972, as CP is my favorite Canadian railway.

kevin.r.gillespie@verizon.net

Let's make sure nobody confuses these for indentical locomotives. The D-10's came over many years, in many subclasses and from multiple builders.

Thus, anyone who might feel like a D-10 is expendable because there are 6 others, really should look into the details.

Rob

> 894 Kitchener, Ontario
> 926 Ottawa, Ontario
> 972 Strasburg, PA
> 999 Delson, Quebec
> 1057 Tottenham, Ontario
> 1095 Kingston, Ontario
> 1098 Jim Thorpe, PA

> Let's make sure nobody confuses these for
> indentical locomotives. The D-10's came over
> many years, in many subclasses and from
> multiple builders.

> Thus, anyone who might feel like a D-10 is
> expendable because there are 6 others,
> really should look into the details.

> Rob
The biggest detail is some had a type c andd others a type a supperheater. btw there were over 500 d10s . I remember seeing one at angus shops with a exhaust injector. bb

> The biggest detail is some had a type c andd
> others a type a supperheater. btw there were
> over 500 d10s . I remember seeing one at
> angus shops with a exhaust injector. bb

You are right, and was a lot more than that, BB. The D-10's differed in many cosmetic details (pilots, cab skirting, placement of the power reverse, running board placement) and the different front end jewelry.

They also sported an incredible variety of tenders. There were some oil burning D-10's out west, no?

Some of these variations were by builder, some were by sub-class and some were modifications made for the type of service the engine was in.

All of them tell the unique story of that locomotive, and certainly add to the interpretive experience for each.

Rob