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Canadian National Steam Power by Anthony Clegg & Ray Corley w/ dust jacket
Canadian National Steam Power by Anthony Clegg & Ray Corley
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket (has damage)
128 pages
Copyright 1969
CONTENTS
FOREWORD 5
PART I: HISTORY
Chapter 1 THE FORMATION OF THE CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS 7
Family Tree of Principal CN Constituents 6
Map of Constituent Lines 9
The Canadian Northern System
The Canadian Government Railways
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada
Canadian National Railways
Other CN Constituents
Chapter 2 LOCOMOTIVE NUMBERING, CLASSIFICATION, AND OWNERSHIP 12
Table A: Basic Numbering and Classification System (1919- 1949)13
Basic CN Locomotive Classification of 1919
Ownership and Assignments
Chapter 3 LOCOMOTIVE STOCK AND ROAD NUMBERS 18
Table B: Origin of Locomotive Stock 19
Table C: Summary of Locomotives by Type 20
Table D: Locomotive Road Numbers in All-Time Roster 20
Chapter 4 MOTIVE POWER ACQUISITIONS (1919-1923) 22
The Original Companies of 1919
The Family Grows (1920-1923)
The Smaller Constituents (1919-1923)
Motive Power Contributions of the Major Constituents
Chapter 5 MOTIVE POWER DEVELOPMENTS 29
Table E: New Locomotives Acquired 1919-1928 33
Table F: Steam Locomotives added to Stock from Smaller Component Companies (1919-1960) 34
Table G: Locomotives acquired but not taken into Stock (1919-1960)34
Table H: New Steam Locomotives Acquired (1929-1944) 47
Table I: Locomotives Purchased from U.S.A. (1919-1960) 47
New Steam Locomotive Acquisitions (1919-1928)
In CN Shops (1926-1931)
The Smaller Constituents (1924-1929)
The Central Vermont New Power (1929-1944)
Purchases from United States Railroads
Chapter 6 THE FINAL YEARS 49
Table J: Modification of Original Numbering System for Newfoundland Power (1950) 49
Table K: Modification of Original Numbering System for Steam Locomotives (1951-1959) 51
Table L: Last Disposition of Locomotive Types 55
Other Component Acquisitions (1949-1960)
The Diesels Come
The End of Steam
Chapter 7 A HERITAGE FOR THE FUTURE 57
Table M: Canadian National System Steam Locomotives Preserved 58
PART II: ROSTER 61
Definitions 65
Roster of CN System steam locomotives 67
Central Vermont Definitions 114
Roster of CV steam locomotives (From February 1930) 116
Appendix "A" CV between 1923 and January 1930 117
PART III: ANNUAL STOCK SUMMARIES 119
Graphic Summary 119
Annual Stock Summary-1918 to 1960 120 to 122
Appendix "B" Renumberings Planned but Not Carried Out 123
Explanation of Symbols and Reference Marks in Annual Stock Summary 124
PART IV: SYSTEM ASSIGNMENTS 124
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME 128
ON THE BACK COVER
Soon after Canadian National Steam Power was published, the National Railway Historical Society had this to say about the book:
Variety was the name of the game when Canadian National began working up its first steam roster in 1919. The new government-owned colossus was busy absorbing a disparate group of railroads with individual tastes in motive power, and each of the 3360 locomotives inherited from its predecessors had to be fitted into one basic numbering and classification system.
This original numbering scheme remained in use until CN's official dieselization in 1960, embracing over the years a grand total of 4064 units of steam power as well as straight electric and diesel-electric locomotives. Fourteen different wheel arrangements were represented on the steam roster alone, ranging from 4-4-0 to 2-10-4, not to mention a small group of tank locomotives.
Canadian National Railways was for the most part assembled between 1919 and 1923 from four major constituents: the privately-owned Canadian Northern, Grand Trunk, and Grand Trunk Pacific, plus the Canadian Government Railways (which included the Intercolonial Railway serving the Maritimes, the Prince Edward Island narrow gauge, and the National Transcontinental Railway). The private roads had been on thin financial ice for some time and, as a result, their locomotives were typically worn and antiquated. CGR's stable, on the other hand, bulged with 2-8-0's, 2-8-2's, 4-6-2's, and 2-10-2's of reasonably-advanced design, among them the first Pacifics in Canada.
Obviously, one of the new management's first tasks was to modernize the locomotive fleet while junking scores of 4-4-0's, 2-6-0's and other hand-me-downs from Grand Trunk and Canadian Northern. The road embarked on an ambitious program of locomotive acquisition, beginning with the delivery of 4-8-2 No. 6000 in 1923. This was CN's first eight-coupled, dual-service engine, designed for "much greater capacity than its predecessors, yet capable of negotiating the often less-than-ideal roadbeds that formed CN." The program culminated with highly-successful series of 4-8-4 "Confederations" (later redesignated as Northerns in line with U.S. practice), and between 1927 and 1944 no less than 203 of these versatile machines were acquired - the largest ownership of Northerns on any railroad. Altogether, 704 new steam locomotives were placed in service over a period of 21 years.
The book contains a prodigious amount of statistics and information on CN steam power, including a complete all-time roster and annual stock summary by type. A great deal of this detail had to be painstakingly extracted from old records; it was by no means available in a neat package. The authors necessarily do not dwell on biographical or corporate histories, providing only a bare-bones description of the pre-merger companies and how they were brought into the CN family. Photographic selection is good, with obscure as well as better-known engine types represented. Other interesting features are the evolution of CN's herald and a complete list of all preserved steam locomotives (there are 71, including those of Grand Trunk Western and Central Vermont).
This is a valuable reference work covering one of the largest and most diverse steam rosters on the continent, one that sprang from a merger of unprecedented size and complexity.
Canadian National Steam Power contains more than 130 photographs in its 128 pages. The 30 pages of roster, in numerical order, identify locomotives by builder, and are supplemented with 30 diagrams.
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