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Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives By Lavallee w/ dust jacket
Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives By Omer Lavallee
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
464 Pages.
Copyright 1985.
Contents
Foreword 6
Author's Preface 8
Chapter
1. Introduction 11
2. Canadian Pacific Development, 1881-1901 18
3. Kennet W. Blackwell 24
4. Francis Robert Fontaine Brown 40
5. David Preston 67
-George Haggerty and Number 529 72
6. Roger Atkinson 77
-An 1891 Record Run 82
7. Canadian Pacific Development, 1901-1920 98
8. Edward Averett Williams 105
9. Henry Hague Vaughan 124
-The Steam Motor Car 158
10. William E. Woodhouse 159
11. William Henry Winterrowd 162
12. Canadian Pacific Development, 1920-1950 169
13. Charles Henry Temple 179
14. Henry Blaine Bowen 185
-A Locomotive for Park Avenue Station 201
15. Epilogue 215
Bibliography and Sources 223
Index to Appendices225
Acknowledgements457
General Index 460
Photograph Index462
List of Tables
- Annual Summary of Locomotive Totals 13
2 - Wheel Arrangements 16
3 - Locomotive Classifications, 1883 23
4 - Permanent Crew Assignments on
Locomotives 51
5 - Relative Fuel Consumption of Compound
and Superheated Locomotives 126
6 - Relationship of Classes,
Series 1 and Series 11 126
7 - Allotment of Class Letters to Wheel Arrangements, Vaughan System 129
8 - Names Assigned to Steam
Locomotives, 1918 160
9 - Long Distances Locomotive Assignments, Summer 1933 186
10 - Locomotive Assignments on Transcontinental
Passenger Trains, 1940s 200
11- Cost of New Locomotives 221
Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives - more than a third of a century in the making - is a book that's a "must" for the railway steam locomotive specialist. A factual rather than a nostalgic treatment, it pursues its goal with a no-nonsense approach, primarily as a genealogical record of every steam locomotive used by the CPR from its inception in 1881 until the demise of this form of motive power in 1960. While works on this scale dealing with North American steam motive power devote scant -if any - attention to the individuals who initiated and carried out locomotive policy, Omer Lavanadopts the European approach by identifying and discussing the individual mechanical department officers under whose direction these programs were carried out, and to whose innovative skill the management of this appealing, high-profile branch of railway technology must be attributed.
Almost half of the book's 464 pages are occupied by a fully-illustrated narrative text. The remainder of the book is divided into eleven appendices, led off by a 110-page detailed locomotive roster which covers every configuration of each of more than 3,250 units in nearly 7,600 separate line entries. Other appendices augment the main data and deal with topics as diversified as detailed mechanical specifications; particulars and dates of rebuildings, conversion and auxiliary equipment; assigned locations of individual locomotives at four different periods; and particulars of graphics and livery. Three summaries of corporate development, interspersed in the text, provide a background against which the CPR's motive power policy can be assessed.
There are more than 400 photographs (more than a dozen in full colour), one hundred locomotive diagrams and many maps and other graphics. Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives is the largest book ever published by Railfare. Few more detailed and meticulously-compiled accounts of the steam motive power of a major rail carrier have ever been published. This book will turn anyone who possesses a copy into an "instant" CPR steam locomotive specialist.
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