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Canada Atlantic 0-6-0 #2

Locomotive· unit
Names and numbers
CA 2
1889-2 – 1905-1
GTR 1317
1905-1 – 1910
GTR 2566
1910 – 1923
CNR 7084
1923 – 1925-7
Canada Atlantic 0-6-0 #2
date unknown
Dimensions
as reported
Cylinder Diameter: 17"
Cylinder Length: 24"
Tender Weight: 44000 lbs
Engine Weight: 81000 lbs
Water: 2000 gals
Coal: 4 1/2 tons
Grate Area: 17.07 sq.ft.
Boiler Pressure: 160 psi
Drivers: 50", 13 spoke
Tender Wheels: 33"
History
12 facts
DateStatementSourceStatus
1889-2Built by Baldwin as CA 2 C/N 9810 Railroad History #147
1889-03-04Newly arrived at Elgin Street station Ottawa Free Press. Thanks to Colin Churcher
1889-03-04A new monster yard locomotive, known as No. 2, which was built in the United States, arrived at the Elgin Street station for the C.A.R. It is of heavy draught power. Ottawa Free Press 1889-03-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1893-06-15Shunting engine No. 2 of the C.A.R., making a flying shunt, sent cars flying through the oil office of W.S.D. Morris at Bank street, completely wrecking it and cutting a telegraph pole in two; no one was injured. Ottawa Free Press 1893-06-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1893-12-07The official car of the C.A.R. and engine No. 2 ran off the track in the Bank Street yard; one end of the car was smashed in and yardman Paul Brennan had his shoulder dislocated. Ottawa Journal 1893-12-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1893-12-21Two of the old locomotives that had been working on the construction of the O.A. & P.S. railway during the summer, numbers 2 and 5, both light engines, arrived at the Elgin street yard; unless they were required for extra service in the yard they would be shipped for the winter.
Filed on this engine on the operator's identification of "No. 2"; the item does not say which railway's Nos. 2 and 5 these were. No. 5 is not filed.
Ottawa Free Press 1893-12-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1905-1Renumbered GTR 1317 Class F5 Railroad History #147
1910Renumbered GTR 2566 Railroad History #147
1923Renumbered CNR 7084 Railroad History #147
1925-7Scrapped Railroad History #147
?? H.L.Broadbelt Collection of Baldwin Negatives
As CA 2, Mackay p.104, Harold K. Vollrath Collection.