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The purpose of this site is to provide an on-line library of documentation that would be interesting for aficionados of the history of the Canadian Pacific Railway and it's subsidiaries. All documents found in the archive were contributed gratis by individuals interested in sharing information for the greater common good.
A relatively small batch of tall-drivered Pacifics built over an four-year period by the Canadian Pacific and the Montreal Locomotive Works. The boiler had a coned second course and the steam dome on the first course.
The Canadian Pacific Railway (French: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) (reporting marks CP, CPAA, MILW, SOO), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), was a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881.
Railroads that used 2-6-0 Locomotives in Canada (data provided by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media)
Although these can't be seen as failures, the CP decided on rigid-wheelbase locomotives of greater power (culminating in the 2-10-4 Selkirks) and this five-engine class (and one more simple-expansion variant, which see at Locobase 3570) were converted to 2-10-0 Decapods in 1917; see Locobase 4529).
Some of this information, in condensed form, comprises part of the appendices of Omer Lavallées book, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, which was published in 1985 by Railfare Books. The reader is referred to this work for an overall, detailed account of the steam locomotives of what was long known as the "World's Geatest Transportation System".
Use was also made of 4-6-0 and 2-8-0 locomotives, particularly in the mountains. Starting in the 20th century, the CPR used a large number of 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives and 4-6-4 Hudson locomotives, which were used in both freight and passenger service. The CPR bought Pacifics between 1906 and 1948.
