Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #710
Locomotive· unitNames and numbers
OA&PS 100
1893-8 – 1898
CA 710
1898 – 1905-1
GTR 1351
1905-1 – 1910
GTR 2350
1910 – 1923
CN 501
1923 – 1927-6
Canada Atlantic 2-6-0 #710
date unknown
Dimensions
as reportedLocomotive No. 100 weighed 116,000 pounds (locomotive alone) with an 80,000-pound tender, a total of 98 tons, over 100 tons when heavily loaded with fuel; driving wheels 57 inches in diameter, cylinders 19 x 26 inches, boiler shell 64 inches in diameter, steam brakes on the drivers and an air brake on the tender. It could draw 45 cars loaded with lumber from Ottawa to Rouse's Point without difficulty, but was so large that it could not be used between Ottawa and Montreal because it could not pass through the St. Anne's bridge.
Ottawa Journal 1893-09-26("Speedy Engines"; described as the largest locomot...) , 1893-09-26
Cylinder Stroke: 24"
Cylinder Diameter: 18"
Boiler Pressure: 160
Drivers: 57"
Drivers: 57"
Boiler Pressure: 175
Cylinder Diameter: 19"
Cylinder Stroke: 26"
Cylinder Diameter: 19"
Weights: 116000 24494
Drivers: 52"
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History
10 facts
| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | Built by Rhode Island | O-SHO-ME plan 106 | |
| 1893-8 | Built by Baldwin as OA&PS 100 C/N 13689 | Railroad History #147 | |
| 1893-09-22 | Locomotive No. 100, the largest of three new locomotives reported as arriving from the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, reached Ottawa about the third week of September 1893, having come from the St. Albans shops; the Free Press called it "by far the strongest mogul which runs into Ottawa", built to meet the increased international trade between Ottawa and Rouse's Point, which the large business already begun on the O.A. & P.S. was greatly augmenting. Hundreds of people admired it. The Journal of September 23 reports another large mogul freight engine arriving at the C.A.R. shops from St. Albans the previous day, "the third of these powerful locomotives that have arrived this week"; how this relates to No. 100 is not stated. The Journal of September 26 lists the three engines as numbered "20, 1 [sic] and 100" (the Free Press identifies the second as No. 21). | Ottawa Free Press 1893-09-22(Nos. 21 and 100 had arrived from the St. Albans sh...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-26("Speedy Engines" article; the locomotives had arri...) | |
| 1893-09-29≥ | The big one-hundred-ton engine of the C.A.R. made her initial trip down to Coteau on Monday, September 25; when starting the return journey on Tuesday the steam pressure forced off the cap of the whistle, all the steam escaped and the fires had to be put out while repairs were made. By September 29 she had also broken down at Bearbrook while hauling a special the previous day, and being so heavy had broken seven rails on her first trip. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-28(Initial trip to Coteau "Monday", whistle cap blown...),Ottawa Journal 1893-09-29("Yesterday, while hauling a special, she broke dow...) | |
| 1897-07-21 | One of the largest freight trains that ever came into Ottawa arrived here this morning over the Canada Atlantic. It was composed of empty cars, and there were no less than 72 of them. They came from Rouses Point and intermediate stations. Engine No. 100 brought in the train and made excellent time with it. ... 72 of these would make a train 2,520 feet in length or nearly half a mile. Engine No. 100 is CA 710 (built as OA&PS 100, renumbered 1898), per the site's existing 1893 facts on that entity. | Ottawa Journal 1897-07-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898 | Renumbered CA 710 | Railroad History #147 | |
| 1905-1 | Renumbered GTR 1351 Class E1 | Railroad History #147 | |
| 1910 | Renumbered GTR 2350 | Railroad History #147 | |
| 1923 | Renumbered CN 501 Class D-9-a | Railroad History #147 | |
| 1927-6 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |