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Image:CPR8132b.jpg|CPR [[CPR8132|No. 8132]] switching at [[Windsor]], N.S. on October 17, 1979 after arriving as [[Train No. 22|M22]] from [[Truro]]. | Image:CPR8132b.jpg|CPR [[CPR8132|No. 8132]] switching at [[Windsor]], N.S. on October 17, 1979 after arriving as [[Train No. 22|M22]] from [[Truro]]. | ||
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| + | File:CP8132 wb Windsor causeway 1230 17OC79.jpg|[[Windsor]], with [[CPR8132|CPR Locomotive 8132]] and freight train on the [[Avon River Causeway]] and a Southern Railroad boxcar parked at the [[L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse]], Oct. 17, 1979. | ||
Image:Engine jan1985.jpg|[[CPR8132|No. 8132]] at [[Yarmouth]] in 1985. | Image:Engine jan1985.jpg|[[CPR8132|No. 8132]] at [[Yarmouth]] in 1985. | ||
Revision as of 18:03, 18 January 2020
Dominion Atlantic Railway Diesel Locomotive No. 8132
- Builder No.: A1732
- Date: 04-1959
- Order Number: C261
- Model: SW1200RS
- Built by: General Motors Electro-Motive Division at General Motors Diesel, London, Ontario
- Prime Mover: EMD 12-567-C (V12 2-Stroke)
- HP: 1200
- Displacement: 567 cu in per cylinder = 6804 cu in total
- Stroke & Bore: 8.5" x 10"
- Aspiration: Roots Blower
- Generator: EMD D15
- Gear Ratio: 62:15
- Tractive Effort: 42,000 lbs @ 18% Adhesion
- Trucks: EMD Flexicoil B-B trucks
- Wheel Arrangement: B-B
- Drivers: 40"
- Weight: 232,700 lbs
- Wheelbase length: 22' (center of bolsters)
- Overall length: 44' 5" (coupler face to coupler face)
- Height: 14' 6-1/2"
- Width" 10' (underframe)
- Maximum Speed: 65 mph
- CPR Class: DRS-12b
No. 8032 arrived on the D.A.R in 1959. First photographic evidence of it was in August 1959. Last photographic evidence of it was in 1985. Retired in 2003 then converted by CP to Yard Control Unit No. 1155 in June 2004. Retired 7/2012.[1]
Operational Appearances
Gallery
No. 8131 and No. 8132 with loco shops and turntable on right, and car shops and power plant on left in August 1959.
The Kentville Roundhouse with diesels No. 8135, No. 8132, No. 8137, No. 8133, No. 8140, No. 8134, the DAR Track Crane No. 3 and the Canada Foods Plant smokestack, June 12, 1960.
Pembertons Station relocated to the Windsor Railyard with locomotive 8132 and the Windsor Water Tower in the background, 1961.
No. 8132 with westbound freight at Fairview Cove in July 1973.
No. 8132 with westbound freight and CN RDCs at Fairview Cove in July 1973.
Engine 8132 in Kentville - May 1976
Ening 8132 with 8137 & 8134 on siding in Kentville - 21st May 1976.
Engine 8132 in Kentville - 23rd May 1976
No. 8132 at Kentville August 1974 beside the Kentville Car Shop with the Kentville Repair Shop behind.
No. 8137 & No. 8132 roll by the work train in the Kentville Railyard in Kentville on August 17, 1977.
Windsor, with CPR Locomotive 8132 and freight train on the Avon River Causeway and a Southern Railroad boxcar parked at the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, Oct. 17, 1979.
No. 8132 parked on one of the Kentville Car Shop tracks.
Known Photographs of this Locomotive
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Canadian Trackside Guide 2014, p. 1-50.
