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Canadian brass by Keith Wills I


must confess having a soft spot for the Canadian Pacific Railway. I lived in Montreal for 23 years, and after becoming involved with this col- umn met Orner LaVallee, historian and archivist for the company, an ener- getic man with an encyclopedic memo- ry faster than you can key up informa- tion from your hard drive. The CP’s last steam runs were 1965, which at that time didn’t occupy my mind, being in- volved getting settled in a new country and its French culture so different from this New Yorker’s.


Working on the Canadian Pacific- Cominco Pavilion for Expo 67, one of our research duties was to visit the Canadian Railway Museum in St. Constant, west of Montreal, where CP locomotives, trolleys and many other rail exhibits were on display. I became aware of its Hudson and Jubilee but knew little of its history. That came lat- er, thanks to Omer.


Pacific Fast Mail imported superbly detailed CPR brass models, painted


1911 VAUGHAN-ERA D-10E


information to be gleaned from PFM’s catalogs.


PFM’s 1969, 13th edition catalog had a Vaughan-era, 934 D-10e 4-6-0 stan- dard locomotive, outshopped in Sep- tember, 1911, one of over 500 produced between 1905 and 1913. The model was beautiful in black with graphite smoke- box and maroon, gold lined panels on the tender. The prototype worked main-


August, 1928. Only two were made: Nos. 3100 and 3101. The unpainted model could be identified by its shallow running board skirting and full steps to the pilot. The catalog didn’t indicate which of the two it was, but checking a photo in Omer’s book revealed it to be


1930 BOWEN-ERA HUDSON


1940 SEMI-STREAMLINED ROYAL HUDSON


and unpainted, so I consulted Omer’s comprehensive, all inclusive Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives,


Railfare


1985, to learn more than the minimal 88


line passenger service and “yard goat” duty for over five decades.


Next in date of time was a late, Temple-era K-1a 4-8-4, outshopped in


No. 3100. It made the Montreal- Toronto overnight run, often with 20- plus heavyweight steel passenger cars. Following was Canadian Pacific’s MARCH 2012


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