Old Canadian Logging
and Mining Equipment
Although this page started as Logging page
it has since included Small Mining
Steam and Diesel Locomotives, light industrial
locotomotives and other old Railway Equipment.
I even have a stationary steam engine
an abandoned lumber mill
and two Compressed air and two external
source steam engines
 | COMOX Logging #11 at Ladysmith BC, early80’s |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | COMOX Logging #11 at Ladysmith BC, 1999 In the past (after I took my first picture of it shown above) Comox Logging # 11 was placed inside and was on the road to being rebuilt to operational status. But for some reason it never happened, so I have attached a picture taken in 1999 showing the locomotive stripped of all it’s lagging & sheet metal, but with a new paint job for static display. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Taber Alberta | |
 | The #11 in earlier days, from a 1980s postcard (Traveltime C-1492) The caption reads: Steam locomotive and other historic equipment from the colourful past of West logging, rest in garden setting at the outdoor museum and arboretum of Crown Zellerbach Canada Limited, Ladysmith, B.C. The locomotive was built in 1923 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works (Ser# 67409), purchased by Comox Logging in 1937 and used in continuous service until 1961, hauling logs between Nanaimo Lakes (about 12 miles or so west of Nanaimo) and Ladysmith. Following retirement in 1962, it was overhauled and put on display in Ladysmith (photo). Currently, the loco is sitting in derelict condition around 616 Oyster Bay Drive, in Ladysmith, ttp://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#view= photo&position=174&with_photo_id=38494490& order=date&user=964485 alongside the Humdirgen seen elsewhere on this page, also in derelict condition. Research established that the locomotive number board and builder’s plaque are displayed in a case in the Ladysmith Archives at 1111 First Avenue, Ladysmith BC. |
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 | WP & YT #73 at Whitehorse YT, Aug 1982 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth | |
 | WP & YT #73 at Whitehorse YT, Aug 1982 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth | |
 | WP & YT #73 at Whitehorse YT, Aug 1982 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth | |
 | WP & YT #51 at Whitehorse YT, Museum, Aug 1982 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth |
 | Cowichan Valley Railway #1 at Vancouver BC May 1986 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | Mayo Lumber #3 at Duncan Forest Museum, 1995 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | BCR EX CP 3716 at North Vancouver BC, Aug 1981 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | PGE (Pacific Great Eastern) #2 at Squamish BC, June 1987 BCR (British Columbia Railway) operated as (PGE) Pacific Great Eastern Railway before 1972 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | Every 30 minutes from 10:15am to 5:00pm, EP&Y makes its way around the Fort Edmonton Park circuit, carrying visitors back in time through various areas of the Park. The ride is included in the admission price. The EP&Y was subsidiary of the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) which existed in the Edmonton area from 1902 to 1909. It tried to link tracks with its competition, the Canadian Pacific Railway in Strathcona (South Edmonton) but was rebuffed by both the CPR and local citizens, which led to its eventual demise. The green cars are lettered for the Canadian Northern Railway. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | Edmonton Yukon and Pacific 107 was built in 1919 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia PA., as a 2-6-2 (Ser#52255) and operated last in Louisiana hauling lumber for a paper mill. In 1977, it was rescued from the Louisiana swamps and restored as an oil burner. In one area of Fort Edmonton, EY&P 107 crosses the Edmonton Radial Railway streetcar track at grade on a diamond, as it proceeds around its own circuit. The normal consist is usually the EY&P 107 loco, three CNoR-lettered coaches (ex-Northern Alberta Railways) and a caboose. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | Edmonton Yukon and Pacific 107 takes on water on an undated day (from a negative scan) during summer 2006. The locomotive, with a balloon stack, cowcatcher and round domes which gives the 1880s look; was used in the movie “The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford”, mostly filmed in Edmonton, although the locomotive was constructed in 1919. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443680/ |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | A ticket to ride on the Edmonton Yukon & Pacific Railway at Fort Edmonton Park, in 2006. |
| This picture was submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | The back part explains about the origins of the train. The full story at: http://railways.library.ualberta.ca/Chapters-8-2/ McDougall Hill, mentioned on the ticket; basically curves behind the Chateau Lacombe Hotel (ex-CP) downtown Edmonton, and comes out as 100 St NW, in front of the MacDonald Hotel (ex-CN). |
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 | 3-Truck Shay #115 locomotive, at the Fort Steele Heritage Town, near Cranbrook BC, in the mid-70s, pulling visitors around the property. The passenger car could be British Railway E 3733. The #115 was built by Lima http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Locomotive_ Works in February 1930 (Ser#3350) and it was used in logging operations, including for the Canadian Forest Products (CANFOR) on Vancouver Island in the late 50s-early 1960s. The Wiki description states that it was constructed out of two damaged shays, that it is currently the largest shay class locomotive in Canada and due to major issues with the boiler, the 115 is not in operation. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | 3-Truck Shay #115 locomotive, at the Fort Steele Heritage Town, near Cranbrook BC, in the mid-70s, pulling visitors around the property. |
| Massey Jones collection | |
 | 85-ton Shay locomotive at Fort Steele BC, was one of the two locomotives in operation in the late 1980s, the other one being the “Dunrobin”. While the Dunrobin worked as the oldest locomotive in BC, it was British in looks and eventually sold to a museum in Britain. http://members.shaw.ca/preservedsteambc/southern _bc.htm #115 is a combination of 2 locomotives: Shay Ser# 3350 on the frame and Shay #3344 on the boiler. Both locomotives worked in lumber operations. In 1952, Shay #3344 was fitted with a new boiler and scrapped in 1956 but its boiler was saved. At the time, #115 worked for Hillcrest Lumber (eventually named Canadian Forest Products, then Canfor) as their #11. After fitting their #11 with the new boiler, Canfor renumbered the locomotive to #115 because it had carried the #5 in the past. Following lumber service, #115 worked on the North Vancouver wharves and was eventually donated to the provincial government, for use at the Fort Steele Historic Site to transport visitors around. Currently, it is not steamed but is taken out for viewing in the summer. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | 3-Truck Shay locomotive #115 gets a drink from an old-fashioned water tower at the Fort Steele Historic Site. Some of the drive shaft can be readily seen in this view.http://fortsteele.ca/ |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | The engineer tends to Shay locomotive #115 at Fort Steele, which needs to be well oil at all times. As opposed to the familiar locomotive design, Shay locomotives are geared, which make them especially strong in pulling power for their weight. While very noisy in operation, they can be relied upon to perform flawlessly under the toughest conditions and rough track where a regular locomotive would spin its wheels. The boiler is offset to counterbalance for the gear system. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | Bevel gears engage all the wheels on the Shay locomotive drive shaft seen here in closeup from another view on this page. It’s a very noisy but extremely powerful operation. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | Shay locomotives have a complex arrangement of gears, cams and pistons. A bit of the cam system for the drive shaft can be seen in the lower right corner, along with a few pistons on locomotive #115 at Fort Steele BC. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | CPR Class A, 4-4-0 st Delson Que. Sept 1978 |
| This picture was taken by Allan Campbell and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | CPR Class U 0-6-0 at Delson Que. Aug 1978 |
| This picture was taken by Allan Campbell and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | Unknown 2-6-0 at Delson Que Aug. 1976 |
| This picture was taken by Allan Campbell and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | Unknown 2-4-0 at Delson Que Aug. 1976 |
| This picture was taken by Allan Campbell and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | PGE (Pacific Great Eastern) #2 at Squamish BC, June 1987 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | MB #1055 and Fire Car at Ladysmith BC, early 80’s |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | MB #1055 at Ladysmith BC, early 80’s |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | Prarie Dog Centeral #3 at Vancouver BC, May 1986 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | The only annotation for this early logging photograph is that the glossy print originates from the MacMillan Bloedel Limited Public Relations Department. It looks to have been taken around 1910. |
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 | This 8×10 glossy print mentions on the back, that it originates from the MacMillan Bloedel Public Relations Department. Locomotive No. 4, an 80-ton Porter 2-6-2T, once the pride of the Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Co. Ltd.’s Copper Canyon Railway System. The bridge is over the Chemanius River, Vancouver Island, BC This incormation was provided by Duane Nickull |
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 | CRV #1 at Duncan BC Forest Museum, Oct 1984 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | CZ #2 at Courtenay BC, Nov 1981 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | MB #1044 at Chemainus BC, early 1990’s |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | Cowichan Valley #25, a 0-4-0T locomotive “Samson” (36″ gauge 914 mm) carries visitors past Hillcrest Lumber #1 (shown elsewhere on the page) around the 100 acre (40 ha) property at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan BC. The locomotive was built by the Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (Ser# 1549) in 1910. It is a saddle tank locomotive, meaning that that the water tank sits on top of the boiler like a saddle. |
| Massey F. Jones collection | |
 | The BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan BC features a trestle over Somenos Lake (a wetland). The 100 acre (40 ha) site features 2.5 km of track on which a 36″ (914 mm) gauge railway is operated for visitors in season. http://enertelligence.com/bcforestdiscoverycentre /wordpress/?page_id=179 The locomotive is Cowichan Valley #25. |
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 | A rear view of Cowichan Valley #25, on the trestle over Somenos Lake, at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan BC. All photos in this series were probably taken in the mid-70s. |
| Massey F. Jones collection | |
 | Hillcrest Lumber Company #1 is part of the collection at the BC Forest Discovery Centre located in Duncan BC. The Shay 2-truck, narrow gauge locomotive is, like others in the collection, a 36″ gauge locomotive (914 mm). It was built by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima Ohio in 1920 (Ser#3147) and weighs 25 tons. |
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| Sitting in the yard at the BC Forest Discovery Centre, is Cowichan Valley #24, named “Suzie”, painted on the cab side above the number. It was built as an 0-4-0 by the Vulcan Iron Works in 1910 to 36″ (914 mm) gauge and weighs 12 tons. It was originally built for mining; where it ran until 1936, then worked for the Elk River Colliery from 1942 to 1957, before it was purchased privately, made over and brought to the Forest Museum (now the BC Forest Discovery Centre), where it has served as a standby for the #1 and the #25. |
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| CVR #1 at Duncan BC Forest Museum, Oct 1984 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | CVLM (Cowichan Valley Logging RailwayMuseum) 0-4-0 #24 at Duncan B.C. June 1967 Cowichan Valley Forest Museum |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | CVLM (Cowichan Valley Logging Museum) 0-4-0 #24 at Duncan B.C. June 1967 Cowichan Valley Forest Museum |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | CVLM (Cowichan Valley Logging RailwayMuseum) Shay #1 at Duncan B.C. June 1967 Cowichan Valley Forest Museum |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | CVFM (Cowichan Valley Forest Museum) Shay #1 at Duncan B.C. June 1967 Cowichan Valley Forest Museum |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | CVFM (Cowichan Valley Forest Museum) Shay #1 at Duncan B.C. June 1967 Cowichan Valley Forest Museum |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | CVFM Log Car at Duncan B.C. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | K.M.R.Y. #1 at Dawson City YT August 1982 http://www.yukonmuseums.ca/treasures/dcm/17.html This engine was mainly used in mining operations |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | K.M.RY #2, Dawson City YT, August 6 1982 This engine was mainly used in mining operations |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | K.M.RY #2, Dawson City YT, August 6 1982 This engine was mainly used in mining operations |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | K.M.RY #4, Dawson City YT This engine was mainly used in mining operations |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | The Duchess at Carcross YT, August 1982 http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM92E4_ The_DUCHESS |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | The Duchess at Carcross YT, August 1982 http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM92E4_ The_DUCHESS |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | This is one of the narrow gage locomotives, a Baldwin mogul, which were used to haul coal from Lethbridge colleries through the international border at Coutts Sweetgrass. |
| This picture was submitted by Bill Hillen, Lethbridge Alberta | |
 | T&NR 4-4-0 |
| This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and it part of the “Jim Parker Collection” | |
 | Stelco 0-6-0 #40 at Hamilton Ont. |
| This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and it part of the “Jim Parker Collection” | |
 | Alberta Railway & Coal 0-6-0 at Lethbridge Alberta, 1893 Note the dual gauge track |
| This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and was courtesy of the Sir Alexander Galt Museum | |
 | Alberta Railway & Coal 0-6-0 at Lethbridge Alberta, 1893 Note the dual gauge track |
| This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and was courtesy of the Sir Alexander Galt Museum | |
 | Acadia Coal 2-8-0 #42 at Trenton NS Oct 1963 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | 2 Truck Shay at Richmond Hill (Lansing) Ont Nov 1959 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | 2 Truck Shay #2 at Port Alberni B.C. Oct 1956 |
| This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and is part of the Jim Parker Collection | |
 | 2 Truck Shay #2 at Port Alberni B.C. Oct 1956 |
| This picture was submitted by Jim Parker and is part of the Jim Parker Collection | |
 | The Consumers Co. 0-4-0 Aug 1958 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | The Consumers Co. 0-4-0 Aug 1958 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | A Polaroid print from the early 70s by Massey’s father-in-law, showing what appears to be Canadian Creosoting 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotive #102, on static display at Sioux Lookout, Ontario. At the time, Massey’s future relative was stationed at RCAF Station Ramore, a radar base in the same general area of Northern Ontario. View the locomotive as it stood in Dec 2012, http://www.trainspotted.com/content/CC/01/CC-102 -LS-LF-20121207-1103.jpg having lost its front and rear footboards, as well as headlight and now having the cab open for access. A Google Street View of “102 Government Row, Sioux Lookout” will bring a photo of the locomotive in front of a building which is either an old railway station or constructed to look like one. Sioux Lookout is still a VIA Rail stop but the station is two-storey. No explanation for the background buildings in the photo, not on Google Street View today. Perhaps a viewer can elaborate if/when the loco was moved. |
| Photo: Late Lorne Unwin Massey F. Jones collection | |
 | Elk River Colliery Locomotive at Fort Steele BC, Sept 1987 This locomotive operated on steam pressure only and could be used underground in a coal mine. This type of locomotive used steam from another source. Usually the Co’s main boiler. When the pressure in it’s tank was built up to the required PSI, the locomotive was disconnected from it’s source of s team & ran on it’s own till the PSI pressure became too low & the process was repeated. This type of locomotive was used under ground or in areas where there would be lots of hazardous coal dust & where ordinary steam locomotive exhaust smoke would also be a hazard. They also had a low profile & could work in tighter locations than an ordinary steam engine could |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | Compressed air 0-4-0 Mining Locomotive BC Miming Museum. Brittania BC |
| This picture was taken by Bill Grandin and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | These two are two Compressed Air mine locomotives, displayed the Natural Resource area of Heritage Park. The six-ton locomotive in front was used in Canmore for nearly 80 years, before Canmore Mines Ltd donated it to Heritage Park in 1979, while the one eight-ton locomotive in the back, nicknamed “Jumbo” was used for 40 years at the Crowsnest Pass Coal & Coke Company at Michel BC, before being presented to Heritage Park as a gift in 1965. Both units were built by the H.K. Porter Company Ltd, the largest manufacturer of mine locomotives; one in 1909 and the other one in 1902. Being fireless, compressed air locomotives were used inside the mine itself and pushed the cars to an outside area, where steam locomotives such as CNP 3 or the Canmore 4 “Goat” both shown on this page, took over. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | Its name is PORTER. Not the toy that it appears to be, but once a hard working fireless locomotive toiling in a Canadian steel mill for about a quarter-century. Porter is now displayed in Bellevue Park in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and was part of children’s playground for 40 years. Cast in large letters on its nose, the locomotive is popularly named after its builder, the H.K. Porter Company who built it in 1943 (Construction #7443) for Algoma Steel Industries (ASI), with a wheel configuration of 0-4-0F. ASI knew it as Engine 10 and retired it in 1967. It was then turned over to the City of Sault Ste. Marie, who renumbered it to 67, as a Centennial project; painted it to fit into a playground setting and popularly named it “Porter the Train”. Porter is believed to be one of only two in existence in Canada and considered to be in the best condition even though it has been modified and the controls welded shut. Now fenced off due to safety concerns, it is now preserved by a city as a reminder of the vibrant steel industry in the Sault during WWII. Once sadly in need of paint after deterioration from children and weather, it was improved at the cost of $32,000 after generating some controversy as to whether it should be returned to its original livery. Read more at http://www.saultstar.com/ 2014/01/19/porters -designation-could-be-derailed and http://www.saultstar.com/2013/08/21/porter- the-train-gets-a-fresh-coat-of-paint-to-stem -deterioration and see it fenced (before painting), down the page at http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/s howthread.php?t=201123 |
| Photo: Late L. Unwin – Massey F. Jones collection | |
 | Log car behind CVR #1 at Duncan BC Forest Museum, Oct 1984 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | CF Log Car at Ladysmith BC, early 80’s |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | CF Snon Plow at Ladysmith BC, early 1980’s |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | CPR Logging Flat cat #306059 at Duncan B.C. June 1967 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | This little dinky locomotive flanked the Ron Morel Museum in Kapuskasing and it was visible from the highway in 1975 when this photo was taken by a friend of Massey. When the museum (engine 5107, passenger cars and caboose) http://yourrailwaypictures.com/CNRsteamengines/ were moved in the fall of 2004, the dinky engine was handed over to a local man who used to work for the Woodlands Department of Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company. He is an amateur historian of all things related to the lumber industry. The locomotive was built by Plymouth in May 19311 (Ser# 3632) as 5-Ton Model FLB-2 (the B meaning that it had a Buda engine). Plymouth was one of the world’s most prolific builders of small industrial locomotives, with over 7,500 constructed of which 1,700 are believed to still be in active use, some over 50 years old. Almost all Plymouth locomotives produced were less than 25 tons. The triangular inscription on top of the cab reads from the top: (an interlaced SF), followed by SPRUCE FALLS POWER & PAPER COMPANY then WOODLANDS and across the bottom, KAPUSKASING ONTARIO. Information on the dinky location and its present whereabouts was courteously provided by the curator of the Ron Morel Museum in Kapuskasing: Ron Morel Museum. The dinky is taken out and displayed during Kapuskasing’s annual Lumberjack Festival (info on www.kapuskasing.ca ). |
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 | CF 107 (Crown Forest) at Ladysmith BC, Early 1980’s |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | CF#107 at Ladysmith BC, Early 1980’s |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | CF 107 (Crown Forest) at Ladysmith BC, Early 1980’s |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | Comox Logging Railway #107 at Port Alberni, in April 1976, when it was in service with the company. This little 4-wheel Plymouth 7-ton gas locomotive, well-illustrated from several angles on this page, was built in February 1924 (Type DL2 Ser# 1662) and first purchased by Sydney E. Jenkins (the construction company which built the Connaught near Revelstoke BC), in October 1927, as their #1. Plymouth built is first diesel in 1927, and it has been the country’s most prolific small gas and diesel locomotive builder, with 7500 to date. Most of these are small mine and industrial locomotives of less than 25 tons. http://www.northeast.railfan.net (note that this link refers to the loco as Type BL2, not DL2) |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | After a 1974 rebuild, the loco was purchased by the Alberni Pacific Lumber in 1980 as their #107; then to Comox Logging & Railway in 1984 and finally by Crown Forest Industries (formerly Crown Zellerbach) in March 1986. In May 1993, #107 was donated to the Ladysmith Railway Historical Society and displayed in the Alberni Valley Museum, for use as an artifact, illustrating Vancouver Island logging. Both my scans are from Ektachrome slides dated (by Kodak) April 1976, when I visited. See the loco in B&W in its CL&R days at: http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/czbx107.jpg http://gelwood.railfan.net/clr/clr107agh.jpg (and if you [persistently] click on some part of the same link, it will bring a front view of the same loco but not quite from same angle) |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | MB #76-11 at Port Alberni BC, April 1998 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | This old loco is located in downtown Coleman AB at the old intl coal site just south of the downtown near the old coke ovens. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Bob Watson | |
 | Alberni Pacific #7 at Port Alberni BC, 1998 Alberni Pacific #7 being maintained in their locomotive shop during the spring of 1998. Note all the equipment being used on a regular basis. Quite a crowded area! The shop it self was erected on the old footings of a long abandoned CP 2 stall wood frame engine house. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Taber Alberta | |
 | Alberni Pacific #7 at Port Alberni BC, 1998 The shop drop pit |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Taber Alberta | |
 | Alberni Pacific #7 at Port Alberni BC, 1998 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Taber Alberta | |
 | Alberni Pacific #7 at Port Alberni BC, 1998 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Taber Alberta | |
 | Acadia Coal GE 70T (Ex CNR) at Stellarton NS, Oct 1963 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker | |
 | An abandoned lumber mill just West of Revelstoke BC, Sept 1986 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | Cowichan Valley Forest Museum stationary steam engine Duncan B.C. June 1967 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Jim Parker |
 | Custom built to push logs off a rail car into the water at the log dump, this odd looking unit was called The Humdirgen. It was self-propelled and made locally from a small (shay) locomotive. By the late 1940s, Ladysmith was the centre of major logging operations that extended as far as the Nanaimo Lakes region and employed as many as 700 people. Chief among them was The Comox Lumber and Railway Company. In 1954 the company was purchased by Crown Zellerbach Canada and later became part of the Crown Forest Company. This view and others were taken in the mid to late 70s at Ladysmith BC by a good friend of Massey ¨C799C |
| This picture is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection | |
 | As each loaded car still coupled to the locomotive came under the Humdirgen, the logs were pushed into the water by the arm. There are some superb black and white pictures of logging operations, including one of the Humdirgen and one of the Ladysmith log dump at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/msdwilkie/7000810666 /in/set-72157629699032592/lightbox/ |
| This picture is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection | |
 | The logs were then boomed by light boats called “sidewinders” because they were able to move sideways and turn on their own radius and towed down the Fraser River to the Canadian Western Lumber Company Limited in Fraser Mills BC (near Vancouver), an organization capable of handling a million feet of logs daily. Any stray logs were picked up by professional lumber salvagers and sold by them to a sawmill. These salvagers called beachcombers, inspired the famous CBC series which ran for 216 episodes 1972-1990. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beachcombers |
| This picture is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection | |
 | Fairly well orphaned for now, the Humdirgen is displayed around 616 Oyster Bay Drive, Ladysmith BC. The site can be viewed by accessing Google Maps, then Street View. It will become necessary to mouse down the road quite a bit,as the address is approximate. The museum which acquired the artifacts ran into difficulty for restoration funds; leaving behind the Comox Lumber #11 (shown on this page in fairly pristine condition ) on one track and the Humdirgen on the other; neither of which, has been very well cared for, since. There are other pieces of railroadiana around, including a logging steam jenny scattered around on various tracks. View be a photo of Comox Lumber #11 and The Humdirgen in their present sad state at: http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#view=photo |
| This picture is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection | |
 | A lightweight rail crane, manufactured by Industrial Brownhoist and lettered for the Quebec North Shore Paper, on the dock at Baie-Comeau QC in the early 70s Baie-Comeau is a deep water port on the St. Lawrence River located approximately 420 kilometres (260 mi) north-east of Quebec City in the Côte-Nord (North Shore) region of the province of Quebec. It is named for a local North Shore geologist and naturalist. Though colonized before, the town took root in 1936, when Colonel Robert R. McCormick (1880-1955), owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, built the Quebec North Shore Paper mill, taking advantage of surrounding forest for the pulp, unlimited supply from nearby waterfalls for hydroelectric power and paper processing as well as ice-free deep water port to ship finished newsprint rolls to Chicago by boat through the St. Lawrence River. The Quebec North Shore Paper thrived and greatly expanded in the 1950s. It lost its identity along with other Canadian pulp paper pioneers in the 1970s, as merger upon merger took place within the industry. Currently, it is known as AbitibiBowater. It now has 11,200 employees. Newsprint still accounts for about 40 percent of its business. The rest of the business includes products like packaging paper and lumber. It’s fair to assume that the crane was used to unload giant newsprint rolls brought to the dock from the plant and place them into ships’ holds for transportation to the US. After this photo was taken, it may or may not have remained in service and does not appear on any paper roster or on-line research. The dock at Baie-Comeau is now serviced by COGEMA, which is a subsidiary of CN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_de_gestion_ de_Matane Any update would be most welcome |
| This picture is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection | |
 | Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd. (Comox Logging & Railway) Alco RS-3 # 4097 at Ladysmith on Vancouver Island.. The Alco RS-3 (b/n 80187) former Delaware & Hudson 4097 was acquired through United Railway Supply in Montreal in May 1973 and eventually scrapped after apparently being tagged by vandals. Taken by a friend of Massey near the Ladysmith log dump c.1974. |
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 | Crown Zellerbach RS-3 #4097 near Ladysmith BC c.1974 The water tank semi-permanently coupled to it, will be used in case of a fire caused by any sparks from the locomotive; as it goes along, hauling flatcars full of logs from the forest to the log dump. |
| This picture is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection | |
 | Another nice view of the CZ #4097 in action, scanned from a colour negative strip. The photo was taken c. 1974 by a close friend of Massey. |
| This picture is part of the Massey F. Jones Collection | |
 | A good front shot of Crown Zellerbach #4097 in service at Ladysmith on Vancouver Island in the 70s. The locomotive has now been scrapped. |
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 | Before Crown Forest Products (formerly Crown Zellerbach) switched to the RS-3 locomotives shown on this page, Baldwin #7128 was used between the Nanaimo Lakes operation and the Ladysmith log dump. The diesel is a model VO-1000 built by Baldwin in 1943. Crown Zellerbach purchased it in 1960 from the U. S. army. This photo was taken at an unknown location (possibly Ladysmith or Port Alberni on Vancouver Island) c. 1974 by a good friend of Massey. |
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 | The loco was built in September 1923 by the Montreal Locomotive Works (Ser# 64710) as a, 0-4-0 tank locomotive (similar to Thomas, with water to the rear of the cab) and it was later converted to a 0-4-0ST, with the tank astride of the boiler. In 1920 Alcan established itself in the region and partnered with Roberval & Saguenay in 1926. RS 15 locomotive then went through a series of moves through various Alcan hydroelectric generation facilities. Its last assignment was in metalworking machinery manufacturing plant; until given back to Alcan, who donated it to the town of Port Alfred, which placed it on the static display shown in this view. The water behind the loco is the Baie des Ha! Ha!, a deep-water port used by Alcan (now Rio Tinto) to unload bauxite from ocean going ships. It is then shipped by rail by unit train to its processing plant in Jonquière (formerly Arvida QC) to be made into alumina, then aluminum ingots. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | In 2011, locomotive 15 was given to the Vielle Pulperie (The Old Pulp Mill) in Chicoutimi (where it initially operated from as a pulp hauler). They displayed it as given but the expected 6-figure couldn’t allow professional restoration. So a local artisan undertook it with a paintbrush and it was then lettered SAGUENAY POWER 106 after some research, while another firm restored the metal structure. People can now climb inside the loco if they wish. View the restored product at: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/86672266 |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | Roberval Saguenay 15 locomotive, at the site it has occupied since 1968, alongside the Msgr Dufour Museum in Port Alfred, now called the Musée du Fjord in La Baie QC. As in most Québec small towns, the local parish church is nearby (background) and the area is more or less the town centre. https://maritime.musees.qc.ca/en/museums/fjord/index.php The scan from a colour negative strip, taken about 1978 or so. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | The next move for the 15, was a relocation still in Port Alfred, alongside the Roberval Saguenay port facilities in 1988 and a bit of paint, to help mark the 150th anniversary of the region. It occupied this site until 2011 until given its final resting place a few miles miles away in Chicoutimi (now Saguenay QC). http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx? id=157962 This picture is the property of RR Picture Archives |
| Web view submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | Engine 100 stands in the town of Smooth Rock Falls at the intersection of Fourth Street and Hollywood Avenue in Smooth Rock Falls, about half way between Kapuskasing and Cochrane, Ontario. The display is now protected by a small fence. http://www.trainweb.org/onrailfan/mattagami100.htm The locomotive is a Mogul 2-6-0 coal burner, designed by the American Locomotive Company and built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in April 1916 (Ser#55116) for The Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway as their #9. Read about the GWWD at: http://winnipeg.ca/waterandwaste/dept/railway.stm It was acquired around 1927 by the Mattagami Railroad, a short 3.3 mile (5.31km) line linking the National Transcontinental Railway (now Ontario Northland) mainline to Smooth Rock Falls to serve a paper mill (Abitibi Fibre Company, Limited, 1927-1941) and its succession of owners. The 100 was a dual purpose locomotive, transporting wood products in winter and tourists in the summer, on the shortest independent railway line in Canada. Due to reduced ridership, passenger service terminated on May 1, 1966 but freight on the Mattagami Railroad continued with diesels until 2006. Read more about the Mattagami Railroad 100 and its history at: http://www.srfcdc.ca/index.php/visitors/for-train-buffs Mattagami Railroad — Claim to fame: North America’s Shortest, Chartered, Standard Gauge Railway. |
| This view was taken by a friend of Massey c.1975 and part of the Massey F. Jones collection |