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Diesel Locomotives of Canada
Please note that we are trying
to show only old diesels that were produced prior to 1990
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Roberval Saguenay #18 awaiting sale in the Cartierville district
of northern Montreal in 1975.
This 50-ton Whitcomb locomotive was built in April 1941 (#60083)
and acquired new by Alcan.
When photographed, the loco had been acquired by United Railway Supply,
who who repainted it dark green with and sold it to Stelco in 1976.
Roberval Saguenay is a railway arm of Alcan, now
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This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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Here is a 3/4 view of the loco after refurbishing and repainting
by United Railway Supply, in October 1974.
See another switcher in the back, in the process of being repaired. Most came from major railways were resold to other companies as in-plant switchers. |
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The new customer wanted the interior repainted light
pink. United Railway Supply dissolved in 1979. |
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Roberval Saguenay #8 is not listed in any on-line rosters
or other book research. It has toiled at the Alcan plant in Arvida in the
The lack of weathering is probably explained by the
The name Arvida is derived from the name of its
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This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones and is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection | |
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Roberval Saguenay was originally formed as a pulp
hauler. When the company went under around 1926, Alcan purchased Port-Alfred's port and rail facilities and the docks were converted so they could load bauxite for the new aluminum smelter in Arvida by small steam locomotives. Up to about 1941, Alcan would have been using electric locomotives
as in-plant switchers because of the great amount of hydroelectric power
available for smelting and
Sometime in 1941 it was rebuilt again and became a diesel electric unit. Finally, in 1950 Alcan made it into a battery powered "in-plant" switcher.
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Massey F. Jones Collection | |
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RS#8 along the fence at the Alcan Arvida plant in a mid-1970s. Whether
it has now been disposed of or is
still active has not been verified. It likely operated alongside the RS #18 Whitcomb diesel seen on this page but allowed indoors, due to the fact that, unlike its counterpart, it did not generate diesel exhaust fumes while in motion.
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Massey F. Jones Collection | |
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EMD GMDH-1 #600 st London Ont. Aug 1957
The GMD GMDH-1 was an experimental diesel-hydraulic switching locomotive built by General Motors Diesel of Canada. Four examples were built .[1] It was a double-ended, center-cab design. The first two locomotives were each fitted with a pair of 6-cylinder Detroit Diesel series 110 engines giving 600 horsepower (450 kW), while the second pair had two series 71 engines developing 800 hp (600 kW). The first constructed, in December 1956, was serial
The second locomotive, serial #A1713, was completed in September
1958, and was first numbered GMDD 600
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This picture was taken and was submitted by Jim Parker | |
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Pacific Great Eastern 1004, photographed at North Vancouver in the
mid-70s.
PGE 1004 is a Fairbanks-Morse model H 10-44
Alco then sold it to PGE in 1972. They renumbered
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This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones and is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection | |
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The nose of Pacific Great Eastern 1004. While a couple
of photos of the rear of the unit in North Vancouver will be found online, Massey states that the one above is an original from a colour negative scan and here is a view of the long hood to prove that it is the real thing. The Fairbanks-Morse H 10-44 was in production from August, 1944-March,
1950. As the name implies, it
A lot of early diesels operated long nose forward,
In the model railroading world, the H 10-44 is considered
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This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones and is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection | |
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BCR 676 was a model RS-27, built by ALCO in 1959
as a demonstrator. Only 27 examples were manufactured. After becoming Union Pacific #676, the unit was sold to a US company in 1971 They in turn sold it to Montreal Locomotive Works who refurbished it and painted it maroon and silver. MLW used it as a leased unit on the Roberval Saguenay Railway and
British Columbia Railway. Here, it is photographed in the North Vancouver
yard in the
View the Devco 214 passing the passing the
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This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones and is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection |
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This is a scan from a magazine of Thousand Island Railway #500,
a.k.a The Susan Push.
Here is part of an an excellent description of her (slightly adapted and abbreviated for this caption) from http://business.highbeam.com/136948/article- Only 6.33 miles long, the TI connected the resort and manufacturing
town of Gananoque, Ont., on the
Other links are at: http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CNR/TIR.htm
At http://www.mashpedia.com/Thousand_Islands_Railway,
click on the photo of the 500, to get excellent YouTube
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This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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White pass # 1 and 2 at North Vancouver, BC Early 1980's |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
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White Pass # 1 at North Vancouver, BC Early 1980's |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
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White Pass # 2 at North Vancouver, BC Early 1980's |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
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White Pass # 2 Traction Motor at North Vancouver, BC
Early 1980's |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB |
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PSTR #2 at Port Stanlry Ont, Aug 2004
The PSTR trains run on the old L&PS tracks going North
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This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
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PSTR #L3 at Port Stanley Ont, Aug 2004 |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
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PSTR #L5 at Port Stanley Ont, Aug 2004 |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
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Fundy Gypsum Miller Crek NS
Cretter #49 25 Ton GE sitting outside the maintenance shop. Mantua N.S. Nov 2006. Fundy Gypsum ran other 25 ton locomotives at different periods. Some of these can be seen at: http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Category: Canadian_Gypsum |
This picture was posted as "Public domain" on Photobucket by Brian Hiscock | |
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Fundy Gypsum Miller Crek NS
Cretter #49 25 Ton GE sitting outside the maintenance shop. Mantua N.S. Nov 2006 |
This picture was posted as "Public domain" on Photobucket by Brian Hiscock | |
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PotashCorp New Brunswick GE 70 Tonner sits at the
end of the yard out of service July 2007 Potash Mine, Penobsquic NB |
This picture was posted as "Public domain" on Photobucket by Brian Hiscock | |
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Canadian Pacific #19, a diesel Torque Converter
(D-T-C) locomotive used for light switching duties in the sixties. It featured Diesel Hydraulic design, rather than Diesel Electric design (such as used today), generated 500 HP. and was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_ Locomotive_Company Last in a series in a series ranging from #11 (b/1957) to
It is photographed here at Champion Park on
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This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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The 19 is in perfect running condition and was moved back
and forth along the short bit of track for our railfan club on 15 May 1989.. Champion Park is named for the railway station, which
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This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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CPR CLC D-T-C 44H44a1 #21 at McClean Sask.
June 1967 |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
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CPR CLC D-T-C 44H44a1 #21 at McClean Sask.
June 1967 |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
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Domtar Donnacona diesel-electric #4, scanned
from a series of negatives of the loco taken from a train during a railfan trio with the Canadian Railroad Historical Society in the early 1970s. Donnacona is an industrial town located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Quebec City. The town was named by Domtar, which prior to mergers with other newsprint companies, was the main area employer. The locomotive’s colou r in this photo is industrial yellow with black lettering. The diesel loco’s ancestry could not be adequately
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This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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CPR #21 (Model DTC-2), photographed at the Weston
CPR yard (Winnipeg) in 1974. It is part of series of light switchers (CP10 to CP21), built by the Canadian Locomotive Works in Kingston Ontario between 1957 and 1960. CP21 (Model 44H44A1 Ser# 3008) was built in May 1960 and retired in October 1976 and then most probably scrapped at the Weston yard. A few of this model have been preserved around the country, notably #19 at Champion Park in Okotoks AB, shown on this page. See a photo of #19 in her final restoration paint at http://trainweb.org/galt-stn/cproster/locomotive |
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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The operator's console of a DTC-2
This one is inside the #19 cab at Okotoks AB. |
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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INCO GE 44 Ton #202 |
This picture was taken by Allan Campbell and was submitter by Jim Parker | |
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This un-numbered GE 44 Tonner belonged to
Donahue Inc., at Clermont, Québec in August 1978, outbound with a consist of newsprint rolls bound for the US; more specifically the Chicago Tribune, which was a major shareholder. The cars will later be transferred to CN. This type of locomotive was built by General Electric between 1940
and 1956 and designed for industrial
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This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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Another view of the Donahue 44-Tonner; just outside
their newsprint plant at Clermont, in the Charlevoix-Est area, a few miles from Quebec City on the North Shore. The company underwent several name changes when newsprint companies
were merged into others, in
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This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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One of the Canadian National 44 Ton locomotives,
at an unknown location, in pre-1961 CNR green and yellow livery. These units were designed for industrial and light switching duties, often replacing steam locomotives previously been assigned these chores. The locomotive was built in 1942 by General Electric
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Photo: Alastair S. Preston (back of print) - Massey F. Jones collection | |
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CNR Yard Utility Engine #50138 |
This picture was taken by Allan Campbell and is part of the Jim Parker collection | |
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Consumers Co. Plymouth
Locomotive Works
#106-6 Aug 1958 |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
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Consumers Co. Plymouth
Locomotive Works
#106-6 Aug 1958 |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
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Research established that this unnumbered unit might be Abitibi
Price #5, a Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW)
S-3, built on 19 Sep 1950 (Ser#77634), here photographed near the Abitibi plant in Kenogami QC in the late 1970s. Kenogami is about 214 miles north of Quebec City in the Saguenay Region. Large amount of forest in the area and cheap electricity from a nearby river allowed Price Brothers and Company in the late 1800s; then Abitibi Price (and so on, through mergers), to operate a pulp and paper mill and this was their plant switcher, which connected with CN at Jonquiere, a couple of miles away |
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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Price Brothers 5, one of the couple of this number that was used
for their locomotives. This 50 Ton side rod switcher,
was used at their newsprint manufacturing plant in the early 70s, before a merger with Abitibi, to become Abitibi Price, which thereafter merged with more companies. The locomotive is photographed at Alma in the Saguenay region, a couple of hundred miles north of Quebec City. PB5 was manufactured by GE ((Serial 29870) in
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This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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This specialized Kenworth flatbed truck, property of
Alcan (now Rio Tinto) in the Saguenay region north of Quebec City is fitted with a foundry ladle and designed to carry molten aluminum from one plant to another, either by road or by rail, as evidenced by fitted Hi-Rail units to front and rear bumpers. This view was taken about 1980, when the then brand new truck was put on display for the general public in the area. |
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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Rushton Industrial Diesel 400HP, 1950's |
This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and is part of the "Jim Parker Collection" | |
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CLC
Industrial Diesel (Canadian Locomotive Company)
at Kingston Ont. 1950's The Canadian Locomotive Company, commonly referred to as CLC, was a Canadian manufacturer of railway locomotives located in Kingston, Ontario. Its works were located on Ontario Street and Gore Street on Kingston's waterfront. |
This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and is part of the "Jim Parker Collection" | |
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GE Industrial Switcher at Lansdown Works Ont. 1950's |
This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and is part of the "Jim Parker Collection" | |
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GWWD Yard Engine 201 |
This picture was submitted by Arthur Grieve, Winnipeg, Manitoba | |
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AJR101 at Alma QC
The Roberval and Saguenay Railway is owned by Alcan Aluminium Ltd.
to serve its smelter as well as other industries, primarily forestry-based
ones, including the
The Alma and Jonquieres Railway was incorporated in Quebec in 1912
to build from Herbertville on the Quebec
101 is now scrapped and 102 (last I heard ) was at Exporail, also called the Canadian Railway Museum, in St-Constant QC (just out of the Montreal island), on the South Shore |
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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AJR101 and AJR102 at Alma QC |
This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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Vancouver Wharves Ltd. 29 at North Vancouver, May 1988 |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
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Vancouver Wharves Ltd. 29 and 26 at North Vancouver, June 1987 |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
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UGG 001 New Westminster BC, Aug 1986 |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
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BCH 902 at New Westminster BC, Aug 1986 |
This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
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Ex- Roberval Saguenay 101, at the the end of its life, in Cartierville,
a northern part of Montreal, on the way to Andrew Merrilees Ltd. in Toronto
for resale around 1978.
RSR 101 is an S-2, built in August 1949 (Ser# 76479), and aquired
by Alma Jonquiere Railway (a division of Alcan - Now Rio Tinto Alcan)
in 1974.
Basically, the 101 was a company road switcher. On road trips, it
usually operated with sister RSR 102, a lookalike
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This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
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CNR #77 Working on the Thousand
Islands Railway
also shown on Old Time Trains, The Train Web The only unit of its kind in Canada it was referred to as a "visibility cab" unit, it was built 5/29 (but did not go into CNR service until 5/30) by Canadian Locomotive Company, Kingston to a Westinghouse design with a 6cyl. 400HP Beardmore diesel. Ten similar 70-ton units were also built 1929-37 in the US by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (WEMCo.) |
This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and is part of the "Jim Parker Collection" |
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National Harbours Board diesel D-7, one of eight
S3 units built in 1951 (D-2 to D-9) by Montreal Locomotive Works to dieselize operations in the Port of Montreal. The picture was taken sometime in the mid-70s.
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This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones and is part of the
"Massey F. Jones Collection" |
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A "going away" shot of National Harbours Board D-7,
built in 1951. Of these, only D-2 (renumbered 1002) is now preserved
See it in action at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmH0NTkTtmI , with a slightly updated paint scheme. Some still pictures are at: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=
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This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones and is part of the
"Massey F. Jones Collection" |
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Vancouver Wharves 24 is an S2, built by Montreal
Locomotive Works in June 1949 (Ser# 76468) for CN, as their 8141, It was sold to Vancouver Wharves in October 1973. View it when it was fairly new at: http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/industria
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This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones and is part of the
"Massey F. Jones Collection" |
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The back end of Vancouver Wharves 24, most likely
at the CP yard on the Waterfront during the early 70s. |
This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones and is part of the
"Massey F. Jones Collection" |
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PotashCorp New Brunswick GE 70 Tonner sits at the
end of the yard out of service July 2007 Potash Mine, Penobsquic NB |
This picture was posted as "Public domain" on Photobucket by Brian Hiscock | |
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Vancouver Wharves 25 is an 80-tonner, It was
constructed in March 1947. First operating on National Harbours Board trackage
The loco is now being preserved by the West Coast
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This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones and is part of the
"Massey F. Jones Collection" |
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GE 80-Ton #25, in service with Vancouver Wharves,
during the late 60s or early 70s.. It was built by General Electric (Ser# 28688) in
In its latter days, the 25 was repainted.
Then, fortunately preserved by WCRA but very
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This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones and is part of the
"Massey F. Jones Collection" |
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