CANA.DIA.N RAILROAD HISTOIUCAl J:sSOCIATION INCORPOR..mD. MONTREAL, CANADA NEWS RE PORT NO . 77 APllIL 1957 The April meeting of the Associ ation \'/i I I Not i ce of Meeti ng be held i n room 2 , Transportation BUil-d- ing, 159 Crai g Str eet West on \;J'ednesday , I April 10th, 1957 , at 8 :15 PM . No business will be transacted at this meeti rlg , but the progr amme will be given over to a description of railway museum proj ects i n North Ameri ca , illustrated by slides taken by sever al of the membe r s . As usual, guest s will be '1ile l come . The Twenty Fi fth Anniver sary Banquet of L-__A_ s_s_o_c_1_'a_t__ i _o_n__ News the Associ ati on, wh i ch coincided wi th the I March meeting, was hel d i n the Re ndezvous Room of Ch ilds Restaurant , Peel Street, Iiiontreal , on vlednesday , March 1 3th. Nearly fifty memb ers and guests participated i n thi s important observance , which was g iven good press coverage thanks to the efforts of I'-1r . Lorne Perry, our Public Relations Officer. The Banquet Conunittee Chairman , l·'1r . Dou gl as Br own , acted as Master of Ceremoni es ; other Euests at the head tabl e included the President , Mr . Anthony Cl egg; Mr . John Loye, f ounder and first President of the Associ a tion ; ~tr . Arthur Duperron, Honourary Vi ce President ; an~l Messrs . S . S . Worthen and Orner S . A. Lavall ee , Direct­ ors , who spoke on liThe Last T\>;enty Five Years 11 and liThe Next Twenty Five Years" respecti vel y . Mr . Wi lliam G. Co l e enter tained the gathering with more of hi s i ni mi tabl e recollections of his rail vlsy , experiences on the Canada Atl anti c Railway, mora th.1n fifty .fivo years ago . The b l ~ss ing v:as invoked by the Hccording Secret.C1ry, t f-ir . Wi l l iam Phar oah , and the speaker s "Jere thankt~d by r1r . Lornl.' i Perry . I n addi tion to the regul ar members , many ol d friends of:" the i Association vlere noted including Miss Anna Q' Dowd , Assistant Cur,:ltor i of the Chateau de RaOlezay , Dr. R. V. V. Nichol ls, and Dr . and Mrs . Leo Mas on . The t oast to the Queen was proposed by Mr . Brown , whil e Dr . Nichol l s proposed a toast to t he Associati on. A number of i tems we r e on exhibi tion fol lowine the banquet , They i ncl uded a col l ection of the earl y Bull etins of the Associati on and photographs of acti vi ties in the 1930"s , brought by Dr . Nicholls . Two model ~li scal e models of earl y Muntreal street railway equipment , buil t by 1'4r . Clegg. An oper:lti ng ~II scal e mudel Canadi an National Railways 4- 8- 4 type l ocomotive and van, built by r·1r . John Saunders . Mr . Binns brought a l arge- scal e ~ l " t o the foot) model of MTC car 1800, whil e Mr . Jack Hewitson , who viaS unabl e to be pr esent , exhib­ i ted h i s ~ II scale mode l l ive- steamer locomotive No . 285 of the C,:mad­ i an Pacific Rail wuy , the first ene'ine to be built by thtit Company i n 1883 . These itcm3 VIere the subject of V0!'y favourable comment f rom those attending the Banquet . It is regretted that many members were unabl e to be present to JOln i n the observance , which convened shortl y before 7 : 00 PM and adjourned at 11 0 ' cl ock. That the occasi on was a successful one i ::; due in l arge measure t o Mr . Dougl as Brown , who made the a :: ::"ang"r:c~~ ': " C. R.H . A. News Report 1957 _ .. Ppge 38 CANADIAN LOCm,iOl' IVI':J ... .. ••.•. by Robert R. Brown Cho.mplain &. Saint Lawrence Railroad " J .il.30N C. PI3RCE " 1837 IN ITS ORIGINAL FOR~I, Can~da's firot locomotIve , the ;JOHCfrnmn was not too 5::..t"L~:f<lr::tory mainly bi.)causo its 0-4- 0 ,~hce l .s.!" rar.?{~I;cl·t made it vety unst.cnc..:r ~h'2n !"Ull!ling at spc£d on the rough f;tl~;_~p ir'un rails. l .. s a rf:::u1.t, the C'.ii"eCl.::lrs decided. to buy another 2nri;'~(' of <1 typ0 which It.'ol,ld be.: more s'.... cceosful under s uch ad'rersc conditions . In July l e~61 the locomotive GEORGE VlASHING'l'ON , of the Phila­ delphia & CoJ.un.bia aailroad, built by \"J illi am Norri s of Philadelphia, made a gr eat nQ.rrlC "::Jr itself and f or its builder by performing the noteworthy feat of hauling a train, weiehing 19 , 200 pounds, up an inclined plane 2[~}OOO feet long and having a gradient of 1 in 14 , which is 7.1%. 'l'hc direct:.ors of the Champlain & cla int. Lawrence rrR decided that this was the kind of a locomotive they needed and the order was placed in the autumn of 1836. On March 27th, 1837 , Uilliam D. Lindsay, the comm i ssioner ( or general manaeer) of the company l..Trote to Philo Doolittle , r. lerk of the Champlain Transportation Company, \'Ihich operated the steamboats on Lake Champlain, UI;i follows : Vie are about makinr; ar:::\:J.nG(.''ilcnts to enrage a boat at " ',~hit..0ha J.l or Troy to proc(',jd ther e to Philadelphia for th(: pllrposc of bringing in a locomotive enp;ine built for thit~ conpm1y by Mr. Norris of that place and ;'lhich is to be T'G,tdy ~(">r ship:nont about the 5th of April . I 1 '-'3:"",; fro;). l"·II'. i?ierce thnt yOllI' company .s rG about to searl to the E·ame pltice for th3 boil ers for their new boat.s" Now ,·rot:.ld it not bo o f r,lUtual advantage for us to ::::end a bOClt as will aecompli:1h the ....lishc-s of both pa:"tie8~ \Jc vlill either bring in your boil(!rs ch·lr···; , ene- haif the freieht to BurliI!['"t,on or we wi.ll ullO"l~· : .)11 the ontS'-half of the vlhol( ~ freight for bringing in our engine , the total w(! ight of which is <lh out f:Lft(>un t;ons at the most . Mr . Norris is to send on an engineer in chnrge "tho ,<[ill of course look a fter it during the passage . I fancy the boo.t had better be en£;aged at Troy as the navi.gation will be open and a boat can proce8d f·C'om t:wrc some time h(!f'orc the canals from ';lh it ~'!ha ll will be nuvigablo. n The lo~ol1ot:i...,e .'1.rrivc.:d at St ~ Johns about the 1st of May 1.nd it ) was r:::.vbn the nc.:nc at Jason C. Piorce , one of the directors of the comp3ny - .. n man who did. :narc them :·'ny other to organizG ·.:.hl; (.c.. .~­ pany and get it started . 'fhe lOCOf.l0t:ive IIJASON C. rI l~ilC E it \'letS a. grcnt success and it had a lonE and busy life of about s ixty y ears . C. R.H .A. News Re port 1957 Page 39 It was a Norris class nell engine with the following leading partic­ ulars: Cylinders ••••••••••• 9x1811 Number of tubes •••••• 58 Driving Wheels . .. ... 48" Diameter of tubes •••• 2" Truck Vlheels •••• • • •• 30" Heating surface •••••• 9 . 7 sq.feet \'Theel ArrangeMent ••• 4-2 ·0 ~le ight in running order Length of EJi:'..er "" 1 210'1 , ..... 1 5,705 lbs . Length of tJ.h...:;r- (; .•• 7 '~(/ Weigr_t O!l drivers ~ ~ .. ., e,022 II The r:har..i('tcri~H:': . (; fe:H~Ul'e5 (!( t te !]orr is locomotives were : rather light b3.r fram-J<.j, s1 i.gh >.:. ~ .y inclined outside cylinders, boil ers of small diameter ',rith 2.1 copper flues and semi- circular (D - shaped ) fireboxes Rlso of ccpper. The firebox was surmounted by a hemi­ sphericaj. l:crn.S! u;;,' hays"ack pattern which, in turn, was drowned by a much srnal~.er one, cIso r~emispherica l and made of polished brass or copper, ",,1:~ ch cHrriG1 tl:e S"1i'ct}' v<ll"e on its top _ Latcr at:., l~rC'cab.ly c:~ bo'J.!~ 1 648, the JASON C. PIERCE was rebuilt as a 4-4··0 ~ypBj with an e:'.:S~::-ely nE)'f; 5tJt of dimensions , as shown in the Keefer Hepo r ts of 1859··60: Cyliiltl(~r3 " . (. ~ ... ,' 0 ~. IOtx20" Diameter of tubes • ••• l ~II ·..... ;"i n - " hI:>" i ... D.... '- . -Eo h ' .v'.· .... .::> . : ~ , •• 46:\" Weight of engine ••• • • 1 2 tons 1\ • nuwt-ar 4 n of t ender ••••• 3 II Lengt.h of tubes ~ •• ~. 7 1 6n ,later capacity of N1.unher of tubes e •••• 91, tender • ~ •• 0 ••••• 500 gal s . Betwce'1 l eJ.17 ai:l(~ ] 3::;'9. tr:.e raiJroad rece:i.VG c1 se!!:e new and l arger Ie cornut;lves nut fi!1[..:.l Y1 tht;; JAS:JN C. PIEdGE W.:'•. , ~ . -3 i.d aside for sale , g!Jiq; to t,h.:- 3t. 1i.'W:'3 1 ~CC; &. In<i'.l~ : trie Villa[;.) .lc:. ilwc.y in 1850, for '3e:'vj ce Jr. that 7'G8d !:letwe:8n I"I.l.1n!'a:'E' and Jo::Jf!tte , and, when requi::", ~ (";l.t on tLe In' .t'l~;t ri~ V:a.