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Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #627

Locomotive· unit
Part of Canada Atlantic 4-4-0s #626-627
Names and numbers
CA 25
1896-10 – 1898
CA 627
1898 – 1905-1
GTR 1330
1905-1 – 1910
GTR 2239
1910 – 1923
CN 310
1923 – 1925-11
Canada Atlantic 4-4-0 #627
date unknown
Sources on this page
Montreal GazetteOttawa CitizenRailroad History #147
History
8 facts
DateStatementSourceStatus
1896-10Built by Baldwin as CA 25 C/N 15068 Railroad History #147
1898Renumbered CA 627 Railroad History #147
1898-03-21≥The Canada Atlantic express from Ottawa, due here at 10.15 p.m., steamed into the Bonaventure station last evening with the locomotive head light, the steam gauge and the postal, baggage and express car brilliantly lighted with acetylene gas. ... Locomotive No. 26, in charge of Engineer Robert Orr, had only two hours in the Ottawa yard to be prepared for the trip. ... the first express train locomotive with an acetylene gas headlight in America. ... Under the new system, invented by Mr. Andrew Holland, of Holland Bros.; Senate reporters, the gas is generated under low pressure ... Mr. Armstrong, controller of railway mail service, readily gave permission to the Canada Atlantic Railway Company to try the experiment in the postal car. (As reported by 21 March 1898; the source dates the event only relatively.)
Dateline Montreal; 'last evening' is relative to the issue of 1898-03-22. Locomotive 'No. 26' is not matched to a site entity.
Montreal Gazette 1898-03-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1899-10-07Locomotive No. 627, that figured in the St. Polycarp wreck, has been repaired and replaced in active service.
See the note on the 1899-09-23 fact on #624; the two sources disagree on which engine this was.
Ottawa Citizen 1899-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...)
1905-1Renumbered GTR 1330 Class H7 Railroad History #147
1910Renumbered GTR 2239 Railroad History #147
1923Renumbered CN 310 Class B-16-b Railroad History #147
1925-11Scrapped Railroad History #147