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Posted by morseman on Sunday, August 23, 2009 6:19 PM

In the book "Montreal Railway Terminals" there is a short paragraph of  commuter trains working out of Montreal CPR  Windsor Station...........

"Suburban service began in 1893 between Montreal and Point Fortune, along the Ottawa River at the  Quebec-Ontario border.      The CP built a  special purpose locomotive for the suburban service:  it  being a 4-6-4T steam locomotive number 624"    

Until the time of reading this small book  a few weeks ago, I was unaware of CPR having any tank locomotives.       The commuter line between Dorval (just outside Montreal) had parallel CN and CP trackage and this was a race track for CN and CP engineers between Dorval & Ste Anne de Bellevue.

 

 

 

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