cpr three truck shay

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http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2i/.visual/img_med/dir_107/b_06610.gif

There was some confusion so time back as to whether or not CPR ever did have a Shay, well it appears they did.

http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2i/.visual/img_med/dir_136/f_05629.gif

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First one I seen with a “cowcatcher” on it, great find!

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Thanks, that is part of the reason I posted it. Wondered it anyone would even notice that.

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There’s on preserved at the Science & Tech. Museum in Ottawa. It’s a Lima, 1923, shay#3, I don’t know if it is one of these photos.

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They are well known to the CPR fans, especially in BC.

There were 3 altogether, class S1a-c. They were 50 ton, 3 truck designs. Primary assignments were the steep mineral branches in South West BC. Omar Lavallee’s CP Steam Locomotive book has 2 pictures and a CP line drawing plus more info on them. Both the photos, of 111 and 5903, have cow catcher type pilots on the front. The line drawing shows these pilots at both ends.