Canadian Rail No, 439 I THE MAGAZINE OF CANADA'S RAILWAY HISTORY MARCH - APRIL 1994 PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY THE CANADIAN RAILROAD HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION PUBLIE TOUS LES DEUX MOIS PAR L'ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE D'HISTOIRE FERROVIAIRE CANADIAN RAIL PUBLISHED al·MONTHLY BY THE CANADIAN RAILRO AD HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREIGN LOCOMOTIVES & POWER UNITS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA .. MERVYN T. GREEN................ 43 THE CNR ROUNDHOUSE AT JASPER. ALBERTA ... .............................. DAVID SMyTH ......................... 59 THE ROUNDHOUSE BELOW THE MOUN TAIN .................................. ..... HOWARD O·HAGAN.... ........... 66 WORKING ON THE RAILWAY (LIFE OF WILLIAM DOIG ROB B) ........... COLIN G. GROFF ......... ........... 68 RAIL CANADA DECiSiONS .. ................................................................... DOUGLAS N.W. SMITH ........... 72 CANADIAN RAILWAY TROOPS - A FOLLOW-U P............ ..................... ................................................ ____ .. 73 A BUSY FALL AND WINTER ATTHE CANADIAN RAILWAY MUSEUM A .S . WALBRIDGE ... , .............. 78 IN MEMORIAM EDMUND LAMBERT.. ............ ................................. .. .. 79 FRONT COVER. Bock iii Iht'daY-I' steam Ihe roulldhou.le was one of Ihe mosl im/,or/GIII 0/ EDITOR: Fred r. Angus .lIrlll:/IIres on 111<, railway SPiel/!. In III!y ifllp l"f:'SJire vi('ll', rakell in 1953, we src CNR MUJI/J/uill­ CO-EDITOR Douglas N.W. S mil~ type /(leomo/ire 6005 011 Ihe IImJ/ahll! 0/ lire roundhouse 0./ Jruper. AlMrta. NOll' Ihe magnijicofll sig hl of Ihe Rocky MOU/Jlllills in flit bodgrowrd. also Ihe impressivt W(I/ Iff" Wllk ASSOCIATE EDITOR (Molive Powor) ond chimney Hogues W. Bonin Provincial AIl:/ril'ts 0/ Alberto, phOI., ,v(J. PA.6Jl''i19, cour/tiy of (nn Marsh. DISTRIBUTION : Gerard Frech ette LAYOUT: Fred F. 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V8T IB! Phone: (506)-734-3467 MARCH - APRIL 1994 43 CANADIAN RAIL - 439 Foreign Loconlotives and Power Units in British Columbia By Mervyn T. "Mike" Green INTRODUCTION current standard diesel switchers of classes 2043 (built 1964-74, During the research for my book on all the industrial weighing 68 tons, supported on two 4-wheel trucks and producing locomotives ever used in British Columbia and the Yukon Territory 1475 hp), 2060 (built 1954-60,27 tons, 200 hp on 4 wheels), 2062 since 1863, I became aware that there was a wide variety of (built 1958-66, 32 tons 400 hp on 4 wheels), and 2068 (built 1990- foreign-built locomotives (using steam, compressed air, electric 93, 1100 hp on two 4-wheel trucks with hydraulic drive). and diesel traction) and power units used in B.C over the last 130 The seven 4-wheel diesel-mechanical units in B.C. were years. I am referring here only to items built in construction plants all built in the mid 1950s, for Teck Corporation's operations at the located outside of North America, for although units built in ex-Highland Bell Silver Mine, located inside Wallace Mountain at various U.S.A. loco plants are technically 'foreign', many copies Beaverdell, about 90 km. south of Kelowna B.C. The locos are all of these American types were also produced in Canadian plants 24" gauge 'mine mules' of two sizes: #1 to #3 weighing 10 tons (mostly in Ontario and Quebec). I am therefore not including, for each and #4 to #7 weighing 20 tons, carrying c#s 1) 81-87 (in example, any loco produced by General Electric, nor General numerical order, on units 1-7). Each has a distinctive 'JW' logo Motors Diesel Division (GMD)/ Electro-Motive Division (EMD), (with the J above the W) cast into its wheel axle bearings. The both of General Motors, nor Plymouth, nor Porter, nor Whitcomb, locos were in use at Beaverdell until 1989, when Teck closed down to mention only a few. the mine. All the equipment used there (including some other 24" The foreign units described below have worked in many gauge battery-electric units, whose maker is not known) was different industries in B.C., but the greatest number were employed 'moth-balled' and stored, pending a decision on the future of the in some fOlm of mining. There were also a few which never turned whole mining operation during the depressed state of the international a wheel in revenue service; these have included some units which metals market in the late 1980s. were in transit to another country or Canadian province, or which Later that year, two of the small JW units (#2 and #3) were were displayed in B.C. as a builder's sample or as part of a major sold to the Nelson Machinery Co. (Nelmaco). which is located on exhibition such as Expo '86. a sandy bench above the Thompson River at Savona B.C. This site Apart from Expo '86, foreign locomotives used in B.C. is about 40 km. west of Kamloops, adjacent to the CPR main line have been imported from at least fourteen different foreign builders, at mile 25.2 of the Thompson Subdivision and just north of (and located in five different European countries and one Asian country. below) the Trans-Canada Highway, #1. The vast storage yard In alphabetical order, the European units were built in Austlia, there stretches over several rolling hectares of semi-desert. From England, Gelmany, Scotland and Sweden, while there has been but about 1960 to 1988, Ne1maco also had a small storage yard at one group of units from Asia, all of which were built in Japan. The #1255 Welch Avenue, North Vancouver Uust west of the BCR country which has provided the largest variety of locos over the passenger station), but since 1988 aU of its business of servicing, years has been England, which has exported units for more than salvaging, rebuilcling and scrapping of industrial locos has been 150 years. The numbers carried on the builder's plates which were concentrated at Savona. The climate here is so dry that units can assigned and attached at the times of construction are given below be left out of doors without covers, with little or no damage or (wherever known), after the abbreviation c#, for construction deterioration from rusting of metal surfaces. JW #3 is still there, number. awaiting a 'call to service'. Units #2 was sold (1991) to the Savage brothers of #16300 AUSTRIA CambieRoad, Richmond B.C. (about 25km. southeast of Vancouver), The Austrian locomotive builders are represented in B.C. where it is now located, about 0.5 km. south of the CNR Mile 7 by two types of mining unit, all built by the JenbacherWerke (JW) Yard of the Greater Vancouver Telminals.